Sandy's comin to town....

No School Day.

Perfect.

I wonder if the kids would rather be in school, 

than scrubbing tile grout?

School was canceled yesterday due to a category two

hurricane, Sandy, (locals like to call her)

 coming our way.

Thankfully it has not been to bad.

We also had to cancel our Trunk or Treat Fall Fest

The Primary has been planning and preparing for 

over the past several months....

but eh...

it is only a party, 

there will be others, 

and our big assignment is taken care of for the year.

(even though sadly it did not even happen).

So, 

here is how the kids and I spent the better part of our day.

We went all out,

moved the fridge, took out the oven drawer, got everything

off the floor in the pantry, 

etc.

 We scrubbed our brains out....

but the truth of the matter is that our work does not stack up 

to Kevin's grout.

Ours does not look "like new".

I don't get it.

It is something I will never get,

because I am willing to live with this mystery.

I plan on never doing this again.

But I am really happy K inspired us to do it once.

If feels soooooo clean and sparkly....

and for once, 

It actually is.

 Last night I was worried about the flag being whipped

 so hard in the wind.

  It was getting shredded to pieces.

I asked the boys to take it down when they got home.

Ryker came in and said they couldn't get it down because it had 

wrapped all around and knotted onto the pole.

Great.

I wondered how we would eventually get it down.

Problem solved.

When we went out this morning I thought I saw a dead bird 

on our lawn, 

R went to inspect,

it was actually the eagle off the top of our flag pole.

The pole had been blown down in the night.

huh.

Be careful what you wish for : )