I'm starting today without the benefit of coffee, which could be disasterous considering the number of late nights and early mornings I've had recently. We have enough coffee left to make one more pot, but Cole asked me to show him how to make coffee so I have to wait until he's up. I'm the only one awake right now, actually, and I would run to the gas station and pick up a Sunday paper, but I don't think Cory would hear Ella if she woke up. Oh well. Time enough for all of that.

It's rather chilly -54 degrees - and will probably only get to around 60 degrees today. That, along with the fact that we'll have football on tv this afternoon, definitely gives it a feeling of autumn around here. Cory was planning to do some yard/gardening work today, so I'm sure I'll help out with that. We were going to put away some of the really summery stuff that's outside since the kids seem to be done playing with that stuff. Of course, it will only be in the shed, so it may easily find it's way outside again before the first snow.

Yesterday was a pretty busy morning. Cory was supposed to see a client, but that client didn't show up. So he made it back home in time for Ella and myself to leave for the La Leche League meeting. There were three other mothers there, including one with a two week old, so we had a lot of fun with all of the kids. Then Ella and I rushed off to Accalia's first soccer game, which was already going on. It turned out that Accalia's team was playing against Chloe's team, so Cole had Alexia to run around with and Cory and I were able to chat with Karine and Laurent while watching the girls. Accalia had a lot of fun but said she couldn't run as fast as some of that girls, which is probably due, in part, to some of those girls being a head taller than her.

We grabbed Burger King on the way home, and Ella fell asleep soon after that since it was 1 p.m. before we even got home for lunch. The other two kids and I then ran to Goodwill because Accalia really needs some pants. There was absolutely nothing in her size, but we ended up finding boots for both Accalia and Cole. Yay! Paying a total of $6 for two pair of boots is so much cooler than paying $30 or more.

The rest of the afternoon was filled with playing with the neighbor girls. The youngest girl has been very prone to tears these last couple days, which makes it hard for everyone to enjoy playing when she starts crying about everything from getting wet to getting mud on her. Maybe she's just having a bad weekend. Usually she's not so easily dismayed.

Last night Accalia wanted all of us to watch a movie together, so Cory dug out Home Alone since they had never seen it. Accalia and Cole - even Ella at times - really enjoyed it. It brought back a lot of memories of watching it myself as a child.

I think I'm going to have some nice hot oatmeal for breakfast and then start to tackle the laundry.