saturday with elsa

Elsa and I spent a few hours together one Saturday helping out a local ministry in downtown Raleigh. We helped organize clothing donations for the homeless people living downtown. Ben had helped out earlier in the morning building shelves. I loved getting to spend some time with just Elsa. We went out to lunch at Tasty 8 afterward and then stopped at Lucette Grace, a fun bakery downtown. We picked up a few pastries to take home and also stopped by Boulted Bread to pick up a chocolate croissant (Elsa always thinks of Amelia when she's not there and knew that chocolate croissants were her favorite and wanted to bring one back for her). We also got a chocolate chess pie at Boulted which was delicious.

Simon was eager to try some pastries.

marbles + hot dogs

The kids didn't have school on Veterans Day. Oliver had a sleepover in the girls' room the night before. They put all of their mattresses on the floor and thought it was pretty fun. Unfortunately Amelia pulled a muscle in her neck when she got out of bed in the morning and was pretty immobile the rest of the day. We did venture out to Marbles (the children's museum) later in the afternoon but she still couldn't do much and wasn't very happy about it. Ben got back from a work trip in time to join us at the museum. (His work schedule has been crazy lately. He headed out of town again early the next morning.) We walked over to Tasty 8's for dinner after the museum. Yummy hot dogs and fries with fun dipping sauces. The pumpkin milkshake was excellent too.

Dancing while waiting for food. Hooray for warm fall evenings! (Which we are no longer having.)