Weekend shopping!

As the weekdays are filled with work done at school or planning for the next day, that leaves the weekends for all of our market shopping. A good friend of mine, Hannah, and I hit the ground running as went made a successful trip this morning! From the stationary market to a street food pit stop, then to a candy lady on the go, and then off to another market, we were exhausted by noon. Luckily we were focused enough before our shopping stamina left us.

A typical street food scene.

My favorite fried chicken!

Yum!

2nd best part....sweetened popcorn!

I thought I would capture this....Chinese people never cease to amaze me with how much they can carry on their bikes.

A new room design!

There's nothing like being asked by your husband to help change his classroom around. What an exciting request! All he "technically" wanted was his desk moved to the front of the room, but I did some gentle nudging in the direction of creating a new and improved library area. Surpisingly, he let me have at it! Here was our big project this Saturday:

The room before we got started. Notice where his teacher desk and the books are.

Hard at work

My good friend Julie (3rd grade teacher), came up with this space-saving design for bookshelves. Thank you Julie!

Getting there...

Posters are up, carpet put in and pillows set! Tomorrow we are going to get those pillows re-covered...maybe shades of blue (we don't want it to look too "girly").

Ta-da! Here is Dave's new 4th grade classroom :)

Enjoying his new reading area.

Update on Dad's surgery...don't eat before looking at this.

My dad had his surgery and is now in full recovery mode! Talking with him this morning just had me laughing...how he looks at life is so positive. When he went "under" they discovered that it was actually worse than they thought, and had to stick pins down through the tops of his toes (gross, I know). To help with some of the missing tissue, they had to add some for him......from a cadaver! With all of this happening, he still had energy for sarcasm by calling himself "dead man walking"...haha. Love you dad.

Keep lifting him up as he will be recovering for at least the next six weeks. Hopefully he can get back to work after Thanksgiving. Good thing his job is pretty flexible since most of it is with the computer.

Here he is one hour after his surgery :)

Yes....those are pins sticking out from his toes. Hopefully he can build some sort of contraption so that he doesn't accidentally stub his toes!