Sometimes the simplest things make a difference. There is an apparently new technology which allows labels to be printed on the inside back of things (shirts, for example) instead of having tags. This is important to me because now Eleanor knows which way her underwear go without having to ask me. Girls underwear has a definite front and back, but it doesn't have a label, and it isn't obvious to a 5 year old (or an older girl, for that matter) which way it goes. Now with the label on the back, she always knows which way it goes and can get dressed in the morning by herself (always assuming that she doesn't have a case of "the slows"). One wonders what took the clothing industry so long to come up with this.
Yesterday afternoon the whole family went to the NC state fair. We had a good enough time that I think we are going back next year, although perhaps we will leave Luke at home with a sitter. We went right after Eleanor's school. Michael picked up Eleanor, I drove Luke and Amanda. Through an amazing bit of timing, we met in the parking lot and walked to the fair together, about a 10 minute walk (not bad at all, really). I had meant to get to the fair much earlier and see the parts that Eleanor and Michael claimed not to be interested in (the animals and crafts, mostly) but I was running a little late. Our area has been in a serious drought for the past few months, so I am not complaining that it rained (hard) on us as we were getting to the gate. But it does seem a bit hard that we planned to go to the fair on the one day in the past 3 months that we had a rainstorm. Fortunately, the rain was scattered, and the clouds soon moved off to water another area. We took the opportun...
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