Epistalary Item to Spousal Counterpart

Good Morning, Mr. Retail and Marketing Manager,

I am the Educational, Domestic Engineering, Comestible and Fiscal Implementation Director of our facility. I am writing to you regarding your inquiry concerning the automobile component you requested from the third party source we shall refer to as "Ebay." As you will see upon your perusal of the attached document below, said party has responded negatively to your offer of acquisition of the component at the reduced estimation and has counteroffered with a precipitous alternative enumeration. Speaking in my capacity as Fiscal Implementation Director, my exhortation to you is for continued temperate equanimity in your scrutinizing quest for the requisite item. Of course, I defer to your superior negotiatory skills and purchasing expertise.

I must terminate this missive now, and return to my duties as infant pursuer, expurgator and habilitator so that I may commence my responsibilities as juvenile tutelary administrator. I hope to have the pleasure of seeing a rejoinder from your esteemed personage at a later time.

Cordially yours,
Charity F. Buchan, D.Fi, C.Ef, E.Ml, CL.E

(Director of Fiscal Implementation, Chairman of Educational Facilitation, Executor of Mt. Laundrytobedone, and Coffee Lover Extraodinaire)

Friday

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1. Brewed Starbucks coffee in a bright blue travel mug sitting to my right
2. George sitting behind me finishing his reading workbook
3. Grace and Ian both writing *perfect* e's this morning and now doing a puzzle together- without fighting!!!
4. Claire looking at books quietly on the floor in her Pooh bear overalls and pink ponytail
5. I can breathe a little better this morning...Praise the Lord...go read the last verse in the Psalms, it was written for me. ;)
6. Long sleeved, relax green, Duckhead hoodie I am wearing, it makes me comfy happy.
7. Pictures of Maine on my desktop....*sigh*
8. Christmas shopping!!!! I am almost done :)
9. Looking forward to going out with a friend for her birthday soon.
10. My hot tub...I am so going to soak myself silly tonight.
11. Snuggling with my hubby on the couch last night, it's been a long time since we did that.
12. George doing his own Friday Felicities on the white board right now. :)

This and that...

So, how's it going in blogworld?? I really don't know, as I hardly ever have the time to read them anymore. :( There are really cool and smart and sweet and special people whose blogs I have learned and laughed so much from that I just have fallen away from reading. And I would like to get back to them....one of these days.

In the meantime, here's what has been going on here:

• Very positive things going on in Nate's home/work ratio, Praise the Lord!!
• We started homeschool on Monday, and it's going great!! Ian is doing better than I thought he would, Grace is a little behind what I thought she was in her writing ability but TOTALLY makes up for it in enthusiasm. George is doing great and loves all his second grade work. Claire is climbing into everything and trying to sit in everyone's laps while they work, but for the most part, I am handling it all okay.
• I had a fantabulous day off with a wonderful dear, dear friend. We went to Starbucks, twice (thankyou for the gift card, secret pal!!) We went to the thrift store and tried on clothes and modeled for each other, we both found some great fitting jeans!!!!!! (seriously, this right here deserves it's own miracle status) We ate, we laughed, we talked, I got a haircut, we bought totally outrageous and impractical, yet totally cute girlie shoes, it was sooo balm to my soul.
• We have the ball rolling on getting Claire's court ordered birth certificate and hopefully, Lord willing, will have her s.s. card in time to claim her on our taxes, which we delayed filing until October.
• I finally used my picture printer and it works great!! I am so thankful for it.
• I am having all sorts of trouble with my asthma, but hopefully the new meds I got will start working consistently here..sometime??
• Until my lungs are working well, I am just casting longing glances at my treadmill and wondering what on earth God's purpose was for letting me love it and use it for a month and now not being able to walk to the mailbox without getting winded, let alone run for a half hour. *Sigh*
• The older three are all in Awana now and doing well. I am working in the nursery, which is so calming and relaxing for me.
• Our church now has, through the amazing grace and hand of God, all the money needed and has started construction on our new addition/building project, debt-free! Yay!!
• It is starting to get cooler outside. I love it, I love it, I love it!! I think I enjoy fall more every year. That briskness in the air, which is only a hint now, just so energizes me and makes me *see* everything so much brighter. I love it. Long sleeved shirts, warm cups of coffee, fires in the evening, open windows, snuggling with fleecy blankets on the loveseat, walking outside in the wind and the leaves.....bring it on!!
  
  

Thankyou!!!

To everyone who was so incredibly generous with their well wishes and calls and cards and love on my birthday, thankyou, thankyou, thankyou. I am so very humbled by all the people who took the time to remember me, and please don't think that my angst with myself over being older in any way reflects on my level of thankfulness for all of the wonderful, sweet people in my life. Truly, I do not deserve such friends. You are all a treasure to me. :)