Daily Archive: July 26, 2004

Woot! 2 journal entries in one day while on vacation?! You lucky dogs, you 🙂 We managed to waste spend several hours at the mall today without actually accomplishing much…although the kids came away with some clothes and so did we (I cannot currently express my love for C.J. Banks enough). Mostly the kids had a ball playing like wild things in the playplace with the gigantic climb-inside fish. Then we stopped by Meijer’s which is a little too overwhelming a store for someone who has been living in Sweden as long as I have, and picked up some groceries....

My sister and her family left a few minutes ago to return to Virginia. They’ll be back again in 10 days. The house is definitely quieter with the removal of 1 dog and 2 kids, but not nearly as much fun. We don’t have any plans today, so maybe we’ll go shopping. We’ve already been here a week! Man, time flies!! Last night we gave my mom her birthday presents (her birthday is Wednesday) and Sarah baked a banana cream pie covered with fresh blueberries, raspberries and blackberries. YUM! During the day we took the kids to the mall and...