Thin Mints

There is a very important lesson that we are going to learn today.

First, overnight from China means by 10:30am three days later.  This explains the Tuesday delivery confusion. 

Second, I L-O-V-E  LOVE my UPS girl.

Like I said before, FedEx comes around 11am and the UPS lady comes around 3pm.  DH emailed me that UPS was going to deliver the package on Thursday morning shortly after he left for work.  No problem, the UPS lady comes in the afternoon.

Then at 9:50am I drove off with LG in tow for StoryTime and Craft at the library.

UPS was here at 9:53am.  The kicker is it's the first time I was ever on time to the storytime.  Yeah, I know.

I got on the phone and set up for me to drive 20 minutes to go pick up the iPad from the distribution center at 8:00pm.  Yeah, that late at night.  I couldn't reschedule delivery because we are all leaving town until Sunday night.

You gotta do what you gotta do.

That is until I heard the knock on my front door at 3pm.

The UPS lady, I really should learn her name, saw that I had changed my delivery to pick up an hour after I missed her.  She knew that she would be back in the neighborhood at her regular time and decided to try us once more.  Let's just say that she walked away with a free box of Thin Mints.  Of course, at $4/gallon of gas I think that I got the better end of the deal.

This was turning out to be the most exciting iPad ever and I hadn't even opened up the box yet.

The iPad is a big hit with the girls.  BG is asking to play with it every waking moment.  LG has gotten pretty good at basic maneuvering around the pages and playing her games.

The educational games alone make this worth it.  I never realized that LG's matching and puzzle building skills were so good.  I think that she had trouble getting the little wooden pieces into their spots with her puzzles. Some of her favorite games are Zoo Train and Preschool Lunchbox.  We also have found a small treasure chest of free math games for BG and one of her favorites is States Stacker.

I see the Big Bad Wolf

Storytime is also a hit on the iPad.  You have to pay a couple of dollars for the good stories.  It's nice when they interact with the kids.  I found that the free ones don't load well or have no sounds with them.

As for me, it's a great "second computer."  Most of the stuff I do is email, Facebook, reading blogs, and looking stuff up.  It's nice not having to turn on the computer to find something for Girl Scouts or a piece of information in a GoogleDoc.  With my nifty case I can have the Pioneer Woman right next to me in the kitchen or relax on the couch using one hand to scroll through blogs while the other holds a sleepy toddler.  A little more practice with the keyboard and I think I'll be fine when it comes to typing up larger pieces of text.  I still need to use the MacBook to upload pictures to the blog.  So, we'll have to see if the new iPad improves my blogging frequency or not.

Oh Lemons

The FedEx man never came.  There was a slight bit of confusion.

This is the second iPad that we are having delivered this month.  DH had bought one as "a second computer" for around the house.  Though once it was here he wanted to keep if for himself.  Not in a selfish way, but in a not have to sign in and out of everything type of way.  Plus he wanted to keep his Angry Birds score all to himself.

So a second iPad has been ordered and that one will be mine and I'm sure the one the BG will be stealing to use all the time.

Oddly the second iPad is being delivered by UPS, not FedEx like the first one.  So when a certain somebody told me that iPad was being delivered on Tuesday, I knew I had to be home for the hours of day surrounding 11am because that is when the FedEx guy comes.  Then at noon I sent and email asking DH to check the tracking status.

Turns out I should of been waiting for the UPS lady, who doesn't come until after 3pm.  Oh and the iPad is STILL IN CHINA.

In the meantime, I made lemonade.  Well, I am going to make lemonade.  You see we have these citrus trees in the backyard.  Two are oranges and don't taste very good but the third is a fabulous lemon tree.

A fabulous lemon tree that I am afraid of.  There bugs in there.  At the end of summer the thing is fill to the brim with spiders.  SPIDERS!  I can't even think about it with out getting chills.  But the lemons are so yummy and I have a great lemonade recipe.

I learned something about lemon trees and that is the more you pick the fruit, the more fruit the tree will grow.  I did a good job last year about picking fruit, but once those late summer spiders showed up lemons quickly moved down many slots on my must-have list.

Today there were a few lemons that I could easily reach and then there were some like these two.

Do you see that big spider web?  I know that a dirty web is an unused web and I'm probably safe picking the lemons.  Then there was the Battle of Swifter Duster vs. Buggy Thing dangling in front of my face.  The duster won after three minutes resulting in picked lemons and a Hop-around-and-wiggle-so-that-anything-that-landed-on-me-falls-off Dance.  It was a very festive event.

Now it seems that the rest of the remaining ripe lemons are out of my reach.  I am going to have to get a ladder.  Bad news, it puts me closer to the spiders and other creepy crawlies.  Good news, less chance of something falling on me.

Darn my lemonade recipe being so yummy.

Here are the fruits of my labors.  I'm going to give them about a week to soften up and then these babies are getting juiced.

Keeping Things Simple

It's been crazy busy around our house these last couple of weeks.  I've been giving a little extra help to the in-laws.  Girl Scouts is being to wrap up the year and get ready for next year.  Lots of work there.  And we've been enjoying the swimming pool and other outdoor activities.  With everything being so crazy I have to keep things simple.  One way is not pressuring myself to blog.

I do have one goal this week, well I have several actually.  My goal is to blog one more time this week and to see if I can use this. 

 I got it in the mail today.  Look!  It supports the Automatic On/Off Function.

I can't wait until the FedEx guy comes tomorrow.