Portland Children's Museum

Yesterday was the first Friday of the month.  That meant it was free admission at The Portland Children's Museum from 4 to 8 pm. The littles and I took my mom and we went and checked it out.  It is a great place.  Our first play place was the clay room.  Connor wasn't as enthralled with it as Audrie was.  She painted her face at the make-up station.  She wandered off and made Nana look for her.  It appears the museum is set up in a big circle and we just circled and missed each other.  While looking for her I found the dig pit.  Oh my gosh. We made it over there and they both thought that was the neatest thing.  It is half a room  with about a foot of this rubbery (like ground up tires) material with many many many dump trucks and things to dig with.  It was well worth the trip, but if we do it again we do it on a day when people have to pay so its not so crowded.
And it may be time for Nana to make some more play doh.  :)

Laughter

The neighbor had a party.  And since I didn't have the kids I attended.  I haven't laughed so much in a long time.  A couple of them imbibed too much and all that entails.  And I found it amusing.  Thanked the neighbor because usually someone being drunk in my world is not funny.  In the long run for these guys it really isn't funny, but tonight it was.  And I got to be a bystander instead of someone in the middle of the abyss.

Blocking

Mike keeps trying to call me.  Now from jail it means I pay for the call.  Dave said they are $5 a pop, which in the scheme of jail calls isn't bad.  However I live on a pretty tight budget now.  And I really don't want to pay for those calls.  He made choices and had been told no more money.  Every call that I answer gets a block.  Maybe I should just contact Telemate and block all inmate calls.  It just makes me nervous because someday someone that I want to talk to could be in jail and I would not know it. So I just block them one inmate at a time because Mike uses other peoples numbers to get through.

Nope, No Can Do

I have decided that I am not going to make it to gluten free.  I still haven't made it to one whole day.  But I have cut way back.  No bread helps.  What I have realized is how hard this is for me.  I am not a vegetarian but I don't eat a lot of meat.  What meat I do eat seems to be tied to noodles or buns.  Heaven help me if I ever truly need to cut gluten from my life.  And now on to the future and hopefully keeping it at a smaller level.

Felida Park

We wanted to do something fun.  So I gave Audrie the choice of a playground or Mr. Ben at Mississippi Pizza.  She choose Mr. Ben.  On the way she changed her mind so we headed over to Felida Park to check it out.  It is a nice park with a nice paved walking area.  The littles played for a couple of hours.  They loved hearing the train whistles.  Hopefully they sleep good.

Cookies

Our ABF driver at work had the day off on Friday.  His fill in person on Friday did the usual thing and took our pallet down to central receiving.  Too much work to unload at our dock.  So Belinda had to go down to central receiving and get the pallet.  Really made us appreciate our normal guy.  So we talked about it and decided he needed something special so that he knows we appreciate him.  Snickerdoodles it would be.
So today Connor and I made snickerdoodles.  I was really surprised that Audrie didn't want to get in on the action, but she didn't.  The batch turned out nice and we didn't burn any.
So we have a nice package for the ABF driver and a couple of small packages for a couple of other drivers as we don't want them to feel left out.
On another note.....ate some dough and a few cookies and my tummy didn't feel so good.  Didn't think I would notice affects already since I still haven't even had a complete gluten free day, but I definitely was down to less than those cookies.  

Flour, Flour, Oh Sweet Flour

Oh it is so hard.  I am trying to eliminate gluten as a trial on my fingers.  And I have not had a totally successful day yet.  It is hard.  I love bread, so the first thing to go is that.  I ran out and don't intend to buy more until my trial period is over.  If it is here I will eat it as the hamburger buns can attest to.  Then I love noodles.  Oh my gosh.  I still have three food groups, but all I want is flour.
All I can say is I hope I am not one of those people whose arthritis is affected by gluten.  And in the mean time I guess I eat lots of tortilla chips.  ;P And it is good to have a break from bread.