Amanda

SHE IS HERE!!!

My sister, Amanda, flew in Wednesday. It was a very busy day, but we had a nice time. I got the kids off to school. They didn't know she was coming, although Randy snuck down the stairs before I knew he was up and overheard us talking about the train station. I think he knew she was coming at some point, but he didn't expect her yesterday. After the bus came for the kids, Brenna and I made a new CD for the car, and headed for Atlanta. About 20 minutes down the road, Amanda called and said her flight was in (30 minutes early, when does that EVER happen?) Luckily, we had planned on her taking the MARTA train to Doraville, and I would pick her up there. By the time she got her luggage and took the train, I was only about 15 minutes away.

I picked her up, and then we headed back to South Carolina. The great thing about driving through Georgia is the outlet malls. So, we stopped. We did some crazy fast shopping. We only had about 2 hours because we wanted to get back before the kids got home. I bought a huge bag of clothes for the girls and a pair of REALLY cute shoes for me.

On the way home we stopped at a Checkers. I haven't had Checkers in about 15 years, and I remembered them to be much better than they actually were. Either way, we ate.

We made it back home before the kids, and Amanda hid next to the wall when they came in. Randy walked right past her to the kitchen, and wanted to know what was for snack. Meredith walked into the living room and said "What are you doing here?" They were both very excited to see her.

Last night we had dinner at church. My friend Bill has been looking forward to seeing Amanda too. In fact, he has been asking me for 3 weeks about when was she coming. We had a nice dinner. (I cook for Wednesday night supper. I only cook what I like.)

Amanda and I started another Rummy marathon (We played when she was here in December. I won!) and Ed and I are going to teach her how to play Catan.

Also, if you look in the picture you can see some of the 36 periwinkle plants I dug holes for. Ed forgot to mention that in his blog. He didn't tell you about the 25 or so annuals that went into the ground either. Our new garden is looking great!!!