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My kids are watching Looney Tunes.  I’m laughing at them because of how they are laughing at it.  Christine has such a crazy laugh when she is extremely tickled by something.

After the little kids go to bed, we’ve been trying to figure out some things to do with Amie and James.  (Also, Christine when she’s allowed to stay up, which is once in a blue moon.)  Jeremy has taught James and Christine checkers.  We’ve played Uno a few times.  On Saturday, we went to Wal-mart to grab pink tights for the girls for ballet.  Jeremy decided to get his hair cut while there, so as I was walking around wasting time until he was done, I went through the game aisle.  Phase 10 caught my eye.  It’s a rummy-ish game.  I used to play it in college with Jeremy and my best friend.  I taught Amie and James how to play tonight.  They both took a little while to catch on, but did very well for their first time.  They both seemed to like it a lot too.  They want to start a real game tomorrow.  (We didn’t keep score tonight since they were learning hence mistakes would be made.)  They only have about half an hour to an hour to do something after the other kids go to bed, so we can’t play a complete game, but they want to play as long as they are allowed and then continue it the next night and so on.  I told them that was okay as long as they are good for me in school during the day.  Otherwise, they will be sent to bed when the other three are.

Off topic a bit:  We’re planning on having my family up here for Thanksgiving.  That will be so much fun.  I plan on having a game of Uno one night.  It’s something we did often when I was a kid and we all really enjoy playing.

I dream of one of the kids crying for me.  It almost always wakes me up and I have to get up and check to make sure it wasn’t real.  Then I have a bit of trouble going back to sleep.

Like now.

I had planned on uploading all my pictures from this summer, but I used my upload limit this month on Flickr between Amie’s pictures and ours.  Anyway, I made a set for this summer.  It starts off with Christine’s swimming lessons and then goes into our vacation.  I’ll have to finish uploading when Flickr allows me too.  The random pictures from the summer will come later as well as stuff from the reunion.