April 18, 2025

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• This has been a fun and busy day. Robby was awake and working in the kitchen before I even woke up. I thought that I would sleep in 30 minutes today and get up when he usually does, but he almost had made 2 peanut butter pies by the time that I stumbled out of the bedroom.
• I did go right to work on the house. I cleaned the last two bathrooms that needed cleaning and vacuumed-those two are probably some of my least favorite chores. But when I really think hard about it, I don't really have any chores that I like to do-maybe the dishwasher because it does take less than 5 minutes.
• Keaton and Campbell went to Nonna's house this morning to help her decorate the Easter bunny cake. Pops even picked up ChickFilA for them while they were there. Nonna and Pops brought them home and stayed and visited for a little bit. Pops helped me make my mashed potatoes which were actually had about 5 pounds of potatoes in them and 5 pounds of butter, sour cream, and cream cheese.
• I also made banana bread this morning plus I baked Easter egg shaped sugar cookies . We made sugar cookies a few times a year, but today just seemed to take my a while to roll them all out. I eventually realized that I usually have lots of help making the cookies, but I didn't ask anyone today.
• I worked on a carrot cake for Sunday-it needed two cups of grated carrots which is only about 4 carrots. Since I had a whole bag left over, I cut them all up to add to our supper.
• Reagan and her friends, Odelia and Lena, came around 2:30. They had a quiet afternoon and watched a movie. Robby worked in the yard, and I did a little bit of crocheting and reading. (My current book is long, and I've been pretty busy so I am afraid that it will be due before I finish it.)
• Soon it was near supper time. Graham got an invite to go and play basketball so he drove to Benton to play. But our supper folks started arriving-Grannymom and then Shannon and Brett. We all ate-salad, bread, carrots, green beans, mashed potatoes, pork tenderloin, peanut butter pie, and brownies. Then even more guests arrived-Tony and then finally Ben and Layne. 
• It was a fun evening (I could have really enjoyed it more if we didn't have to leave the house at 7:10 in the morning!) There was lots of visiting, lots of eating, and lots of laughing this evening so it was a great start to our weekend.