Today was a great day. Busy, but great.

We started off early. The kids were up around their normal 6am. (Can’t seem to break them of this.) About 7:30 I decide that we needed to eat some blueberry waffles for breakfast. Blueberry waffles is one of the fairly frequent weekend treats that my family loves. So Aidan, Trace and me get to work on those. (I think they just like to eat frozen blueberries while I mix the batter.) We get the waffles done and some sausage patties…um um good…and get our grub on. Then Kelly was out the door to get her band ready for the SFA Homecoming parade.

SFA Logo

Meanwhile, I scramble to shower, dress and get 3 kids ready to go to the parade at 10. We made it by 10:05 and caught the whole thing. The boys sat still and well behaved while I fed Emmy a bottle. Shortly after the SFA band and some homecoming court cars passed, here comes Mommy’s band. The McMichael 8th grade band was great. Kelly slowed and said hi to the boys but I don’t think Trace figured out who she was til she passed. (He was a bit confused.) Then some floats, more bands and fire trucks. A little boys idea of a perfect parade. I think the theme had something to do with the 80’s because there were floats depicting 80’s movies. I remember Risky Business, Back To The Future, and Ghostbusters. Really clever float work. The whole thing was over by 11am and we headed back home.

Kelly got home, my parents came over and we packed up real quick to drive to Rusk to see Thomas the Tank Engine. If you don’t know, he’s the really useful engine from the Island of Sodor that children, especially boys, are fascinated with. We had gone to this event last year and Aidan loved every minute. So we head to Rusk and stop to get some Taco Bell for lunch. Then drive the short run out to the Texas State Railroad there in Rusk. This was a really great event for kids. Bounce houses, tattoos (the fake kiddy ones), toy trains to play with, bubbles, and of course a ride on Thomas the Train. The best part everything was free. Well with the exception of the train ride ($18 for age 2 and up) and concessions and Thomas paraphenalia. The weather was great and lots for the boys to do. The crowds weren’t bad because they did two weekends this year instead of one.

Around 5pm, we load up to head back to Nac. Get back to Nac and everyone is tired. Eat some dinner and then Kelly decides to take Aidan to Scare on The Square downtown. I stayed home to put Emmy and Trace to bed. Hopefully they will have a good time and bring home lots of candy. That’s what Halloween’s about anyway, right? What is Halloween about…? I guess it is about candy.