Doing Pot(tery)

There's a place at Quail Springs Mall called Paint It Yourself Pottery and while the girls and I were at the mall on Saturday, we went in there for a minute. Of course, the girls wanted to partake of the pot(tery), but it was too close to closing and you could tell they were wrapping it up. But today, once I realized that Mother's Day is THIS weekend and not the next, we went back up to the mall. My mother doesn't get nearly as many pictures of the girls as she should so I had the idea of having the girls paint a pottery frame to send to her with a photo of the girls in it. That whole thing took much longer than I thought it would, and I got a lot more involved that I expected, but the girls had a lot of fun with the activity. We have to go back in a couple of days to pick it up (it will be fired in the mean time). Had I a little more forethought, I would have made it a point to go to that place earlier on Saturday to do this then so that it wouldn't end up being late as it likely will be at this point. But we got all the cards taken care of also while we were up there.



I kept the girls last weekend, and didn't leave work early enough on Friday to run. And now there may be issues for the next month or so, thanks to traffic. On running days, I usually leave work about 4:45 to give me time to get to the gym, change, run, change, and then pick up the girls before school closes. But they just closed the entrance I use at due to construction, and that has turned exit traffic into chaos, making it more difficult to get to the gym. I made it not too much later today, but I think there was some luck involved, too. The mile is down to 10:06.