The Mouse Family Blog

they are holding a few community meetings about the recent race-based admission shake-down:
click here for dates and times.

We LOVE this place. We're not the only ones (it's super busy) so I don't feel like I need to keep it a secret. Especially nice place to go when your house smells of wood stain and guys named Ziggy and Mario are operating power tools in your living room.

Lauren likes to play dress up.

www.familygrounds.com

Happy belated Halloween to everyone. Our apologies for not posting pictures sooner, but we've been distracted (more on that later). The work on the house has kicked into overdrive as we try to get everything done. Our goal is to be done with phase I (and some stuff from phase II that is sneaking it's way in) by Thanksgiving. To that end, the workmen are kinda all over the place, so I (Liz) have been trying to be out of the house as much as possible with the girls. Sewing has not really been easy to do, so the girls are sporting store bough costumes this year. There is always next year...






Grace dressed as a bug/butterfly. Lauren was Tinkerbell. She told everyone that she was either "a princess" or "Cinderella." The morning of Halloween, we trick-or-treated through the shops in our neighborhood with some friends. I was feeling really sick (I'd been ill the night before but thought it was just fatigue) so I left early and went home to retire to bed with Grace. Lauren and Jace enjoyed handing out treats to the kids that came by in the evening. Lauren was so sweet and welcoming.


It turns out I had mastitis. All the symptoms pointed to H1N1 (except for the part related to breastfeeding) so I ended up being relieved not to have H1N1. Especially since the night before I had visited my friend's newborn in the hospital. So I've been recovering from that and will be catching up on some more posts soon.

Edit: Well, I guess you just had to be there, and my iPhone just couldn't do the scene justice. I took this photo with my phone, as Lauren and I (Jace) were over at the park (with about 50 other families), enjoying one of the waning warm(ish) days of the year.