Why Wednesdays Are So Wonderful-

Every other Wednesday, Daughter goes to daycare for the entire day. Husband drops her off on his way to work in the morning & picks her up when he gets off. I get to wake up to the sound of birds chirping and sunshine streaming through the window blinds. Of course that's a close second to my favorite way of waking up - to a screaming child ready to go at 0600 : ) Today was no different, though I admit that even though I know she isn't here when I wake up, I always glance down the hallway to her room...it still feels a little strange to know I'm all alone in our home. It is a rarity. I sort of tooled around for most of the morning working on my other blog: chromaticmusings.blogspot.com & stalking people on Facebook. I finally decided to take a shower & leave the house for an adventure. I heard about a thrift store over on Grand Ave. that I wanted to check out. The Salvation Army Thrift store is right across the street too so why not kill two birds, ya know? I had a great time - found a bassinet/rocker for Daughter's dolls that was already painted white. When I got it home I broke out the acrylics and painted Daughter's name on the end. It's cute. I also found this little art station with a chalk board on one side and a magnetic dry erase board on the other. I bought some magnet clips so that I could put up her Crayola Color Wonder paper (I don't trust her with markers, even dry erase ones) and I got her sidewalk chalk for the other side. There is even a place to store all of these marvelous coloring utensils. I love thrift stores. I headed to Target afterwards and sort of went on a mini shopping spree. I got Daughter 2 dresses & a jumper, 2 animal puzzles, no-spill bubbles (love these!), and a 90 piece plastic food set. I've decided to devote at least 30 minutes a day to helping her learn colors, numbers, the alphabet, and animals. We play already, but I want to have slightly more structured time devoted to it. Anyway, came home, cleaned up the thrift toys & then played outside with those fabulous bubbles - life is good.