March 24 Happiness

Tuesday:  I had lunch today with my friends from Bible study, Julie and Jenn. We eat lunch every Tuesday over at Russ' and order their yummy fried chicken. We had such a nice time together today. I am so thankful for good friends like these.

I arrived over at Dylan and Kelly's shortly after 1:00 and did some cleaning and picking up around the place. Their front room was a bit crowded from big boxes with shelving units inside, so I didn't do any cleaning in there. Soon, Brendan was home from school and we visited for a short while before the other kiddos came home.

A few weeks ago when Brendan had his overnight here, we were watching some short videos I had saved to show him. One of them was of five brothers who were using large plastic buckets and sticks as drums--they were super talented, and it looked like so much fun. Yesterday, while I was out and about, I picked up a Lowe's bucket and a set of dowels and tried it out. It worked! It doesn't sound like a real drum by any stretch of the imagination, but it's very fun to do percussion on it anyway. So I brought this over to the kid's house to see if they would like playing on it. They did! Especially Aidan. I'm keeping it at my house, though, because the kids would drive their parents crazy with how the noise would echo all over the house with no relief whatsoever.

We hung out together for a few hours--we played a few games, we ate snacks, we talked about their day, and we had a very nice time. Dylan came home from work and I left shortly thereafter because my back was aching terribly--I just needed to come here and lie down for a little while and then I felt better. It was super nice to be with these guys today. Aidan has a "concert" Thursday night over at the high school, so I will see them all then.