Challah is in the oven.

B"H we are getting there.

The food is all cooked and the challah is in the oven. DH washed the (tiled) back yard with the kids, so I am looking out at a much more pleasant scene and they aren't tracking the dirt in now. He even took apart the toy house and hosed it down, inside and out.

The big kids bathed themselves and the my husband has the little ones in the bath now.

The air conditioner repair man called and said that he had our part and will IY"H come Sunday to fix it, but it cooled off so that wait is perfectly okay.

My friend is making a bas mitzvah celebration for her daughter this Shabbos and Shabbos is my birthday as well, so I am obviously thinking of them!

Shabbos is coming!!