Saturday Update

We have decided the friendship bread is better when made with vanilla pudding instead of chocolate. I got tired of making it every ten days and threw out the rest of my last batch though. I just looked it up online and found a starter recipe. And now after it is too late I found out Diedre was right, you can freeze in one cup measurements.

Our last child is leaving the nest. Chloe has been packing her things all week into boxes. This does not make Mao very happy and he lets us know it every once in a while. She is taking a load of her things up to Cedar Falls today. We have been helping her get ready for living on her own. Last week we gave her two laundry baskets, two bath sheet towels, kitchen utensils, wooden spoons, a lemon shaped cutting board and a cupcake tin. She can't leave home without a cupcake tin to make her famous colorful cupcakes. Today we will be buying a full size bed for her room. She will not have room for a queen size, which is what she has now. Since we will not be getting her a pillow top, Chloe and I went to Walmart last night to pick out a mattress pad. We choose a Dream Puff (down alternative filled) Pad. It is like the one we have on our bed. She is very happy with it. And since Chloe loves to live on cereal, I had her pick out a super size bag of MOM cereal. She choose Berry Colossal Crunch.

Thomas has been busy getting ready to move in with Diedre. In a few short weeks he will be moving out of his apartment at Wartburg for the last time. Has it been four years already!! Yesterday he purchased and assembled a desk for his computer. It is a good thing that their apartment has a large bedroom, so they can fit in two desks.

Today is Afton's 1st birthday party. Jessica requested we make BBQ sauce for the pulled pork. So, of course we did. We will probably be too busy to make it the the party though. Mark and Wanda are working on putting new carpet on their basement stairs. We offered to help because of all the help they have given us. They thought it would be too crowded in the stairs for all of us. So, we are treating them to supper tonight instead. Not sure if we will be taking them KFC or ordering pizza.