Just about time for John's Saturday nap. He had his usual active morning. This morning he did something he'll do from time to time. He was running around and around the dining table (sometimes he'll run around the kitchen or the living room) and saying "exercise...exercise". Yes, he was getting his exercise.

We went on a shopping run. We first stopped by the bread store. It is an outlet type store, where we get can get the same bread quite a bit cheaper. If you buy $6 worth, you get a freebie. Today's freebie was a loaf of English muffin toasting bread. Mmm, is that ever good.

Then, we went to the grocery store and filled up two grocery carts full. We were getting low on a lot of stuff. We picked up a rotissiere chicken for lunch, mesquite flavor. Oh boy, that was good too. Mmmm. John just loved it. He kept eating and eating, and asking for more.

We got what looks to be our INS approval in the mail yesterday. That was about the last thing we were waiting on. So, I suppose now Deb can officially go ahead with thinking about arranging our trip.

I sent a story to Cicada magazine, which is for teens. The story was originally written about a fifth grader, but I tweaked a couple things and boosted his age to eighth grade. I think it still works. They require their protagonists to be at least 14. I also sent an entry to a nonfiction writing contest for the Iowa Alumni Magazine. First prize is $500. I wrote about our first trip to go see John. It was about 2000 words in length (the limit they specified.)

John just came in. Ramsey must have put in the bed in the basement that we had in here, cuz John keeps wanting to do happy joy joy, and he says "see the bed?". I have to say, yeah, I don't see the bed anymore.