Laura’s book Advent calendar is stacked and ready for her to open!
SEMO Marching Band Leadership
The SEMO Marching Band announced the Leadership Team for the 2026 band, and Laura was selected as one of the Clarinet section leaders, for Band Council, and also the retention team. Congratulations, Red!
Let’s Wrap and Craft!
Amanda came over to join me for a night of wine, wrapping Laura’s Advent Calendar books, and making soap. We started with wrapping the 24 books.
Then, we moved on to making soap. Amanda was super interested in how I make melt and pour soap. Tonight, I went with the big bar. I used Lavender and Lemon essential oils and did a swirl and layered technique.
I also made her a couple of bars of Cranberry Orange soap that ended up smelling like Christmas spices. It was a nice, relaxing evening spent with a good friend.
Menu Plan
The Thanksgiving menu plan is on the refrigerator!
Tomato Soap
I made some soap today using a new colorant called, “Merlot.” However, it does not look like merlot wine to me. Instead, it looks like tomato soup with milk. I guess I will just name this one, “Tomato Soap!”
WIU
Andy and I headed to Western Illinois University for a quick getaway.
We attended the WIU versus SEMO football game. Originally, we had hoped that Laura and a few of her friends would be able to come up, but they had Show Band for a basketball game. Andy and I still made the most of it!
As we tend to do, we found our “people” for the game. We found some SEMO football parents that were tailgating in the parking lot, so we ended up hanging out with them all day. It ended up being a great game even though WIU did not win.
The weather was beautiful, the drinks were great, and we had fun. W-E-S-T-E-R-N!
Job!
This is a big congratulations to Laura on getting a student worker job at SEMO’s Office of Admissions!
