Well, the theme of this week has been to wash all the Ripley stuff that we've accumulated. We're really not doing that much more laundry, but it has been entertaining. We started by including some stuff with a half full load of our stuff. This excited Chris immensely, almost like he was waiting for me to ask him to help cut tags and all. It was quite nice to have him so enthused about cutting tags and making sure everything is clean and ready for Ripley. Since I had a shower on Sunday (the small group ladies put one together for me) I washed a lot of that stuff on Monday as well. We got receiving blankets, washcloths, and several outfits, so it was actually 2 loads of stuff. Yay for lint traps!! I needed Chris to help me move the load from the washer to the dryer, and he was shocked that Ripley was ever going to fit into those -- he thought they were too small. I kind of held it up to my abdomen and since it was a onesie, showed him how it might fit. It is funny that Ripley will be in the small "newborn" size for a very little time, yet since they mess those outfits more often than later outfits, you need a TON of those super small ones. Having done some laundry and gotten some of the stuff together we feel we can at least house a Ripley at this point. We'd like to have a few more things done, but since we've got less than five weeks left, we'll see what we manage.
At the shower on Sunday it was a good bit of girl time for all the girls in the 20s & 30s. The boys tend to get together and play poker, or do this or that, but often the women don't get the same opportunities. As always, since there are multiple small groups in the age range, the interaction of the people in different groups is interesting. We try and do at least one thing a month that is the entire 20s & 30s group, but most of the time it ends up separating into the different groups. Playing sports though helps to bridge the gap between the different groups -- so it makes me miss volleyball from the winter even more. I'm not playing softball at all though, unless they are dire and need a sub sometime come July. The summer also brings more cross-small group opportunities because of the different sport nights. I know last summer we played ultimate frisbee on Friday nights and it was a lot of fun. We started doing that towards the end of April, so hopefully soon we'll start getting those e-vites again. It will be cool these days, but a lot of fun. I know this week we have the probability of snow, so it probably won't happen. Our days are getting significantly longer, so it helps to play later in the evening.
We are hosting our small group tonight, so I'm really just taking a break from cleaning stuff. I've got most of the stuff done -- except the floors. We'll see how those go. I also need to run to Babies'R'Us and return some of the shower stuff from Sunday. We had one of my friends give us four different "baby medical kits" and since we don't have room for all of them they will all go back. We've already got the stuff in different forms.
This coming Sunday is the third shower of the month. This is one for the cafe people. It will hopefully be more of a party for the cafe, a chance for everyone who works at the cafe to get together, so we'll see how it goes. It is co-ed so Chris gets to go. He's not thoroughly excited about that, but he can at least take pictures.
No more procrastinating for me. I've got floors to attend to. Hope all is well with you.
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