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When we had Sunday dinner this week, Evie was in her hot mess mood.  She actually wanted me to take a picture of her.  Then she smiles like this.  Then she got her mom's phone and proceeded to take 110 close up photos of my head.  When they started to go home, she had a sack of stuff she wanted to take to her house.  Most of it was stuff that was hers that had somehow migrated to our house.  Luckily, I looked in the bag before she took off, because Harper's air pods were in there!  About an hour after they left, Saige was upset because she couldn't find her air pods.  We all looked around, but couldn't find them.  We knew they were in the house because she has a location tracker, but all our efforts were just not working out.  She went to bed upset.  I told her to ask Evelyn in the morning and see if she happened to know where they were.  When Evie got to the house yesterday, Saige asked her if she knew where the air pods were.  Evie said no.  After a little while of more searching (because you just CANNOT ride the bus without air pods) I heard Saige tell Evie if she found them, she would give her $5.  I warned Saige that if she told her that, she would have to pay her.  I then left on the bus.  When I came back 45 minutes later, Saige had her air pods, and Evie had a bag of money.  Apparently, upon the idea of getting cold hard cash, Evie suddenly remembered putting them in an old purse in Saige's room!  If you know Saige at all, this is hilarious because she is usually the one getting paid to "find" stuff that she has taken without permission.  Karma at its finest.  

Quincy's car broke down.  She decided rather than sinking more money into it, she would just start looking for a different car.  She got her bank account balance, and then told me she had a "few dollars" in her room from her tips for waitressing last summer.  She went downstairs and appeared with a thick wad of cash.  She had over a thousand dollars just laying around in her bedroom.  We had to have a talk about maybe not keeping money just laying around.  She said she just didn't know there was quite that much.  It is in the bank now, but geez.  I did let Quincy stay home yesterday.  She had a bunch of stuff she needed to take care of, that she can't do because she is always at school or work when businesses are open.  She ran about 100 errands, picked Evie up for me so she didn't have to walk in the rain, and cleaned up the bathroom before the guy I had coming to look at the floor showed up.  She had a few things planned before she had to leave for work, but the power went out, and she got distracted by Evie.  We got a kick out of her bringing us the remote and repeatedly telling us it was time for Paw Patrol.   

Andrew and Madison are working some for Andrew's Uncle who owns an ice cream shop.  They worked one day selling ice cream at a pumpkin patch.  Evie had a lot of fun while they were working!

I just wanted to save these adorable photos!

This week is filled with making it up as we go along.  Parent/teacher conferences, work projects, endless meetings for Jim, a few other odds and ends and forcing the family to eat soup, because fall weather is here, which means soup season is upon us!