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Cordelia has a slumber party to attend tonight. She's really looking forward to it. She's been talking about it all week. She's even saying she might try it without her iPad. The party is a belated birthday party for a friend whose birthday was in December.

Last night, we went shopping for a birthday present. We went to Barnes & Noble and bought a Foxtrot book and a Calvin and Hobbes book. The friend's mother recommended those as a good option. We're including a gift receipt in case she already owns the particular volumes we picked out.

Scott and Cordelia are going to stop on the way to the party to pick up a new sleeping bag. We have three old sleeping bags, one army surplus, one battered dark green thing and one purple Winnie-the-Pooh bag. None of them are things Cordelia finds socially acceptable. This sleeping bag will be used for fifth grade camp (though she's still saying she might not go) and if she does any over nights this summer (half of the science center camps come with an over night. I haven't managed to pin Cordelia down to get her to tell me which camps interest her, though, and I fear they'll fill up before she's willing to talk to me).

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I'm looking at Adagio Tea's website. Somebody recommended it to me. Mostly, I'm looking at samplers because I really don't know what I like. There are three oolong samplers. Normally, I'd be interested in all of them, but two of them include blends I can't have-- One has walnuts (allergy), and the other has grapefruit (medication interaction). I suppose I could buy the samplers and just not ever make those teas.

Of course, buying more tea will get Scott annoyed with me. We have a lot of tea, much of it stuff that only I will ever drink. We went through recently and pulled out the stuff that nobody's going to drink. I just wish we had less red zinger. I like it a lot but not quite that much. I should pull the peppermint tea, too. I'm not supposed to have it, and Cordelia doesn't like it. Scott might drink it just to get rid of it. We've also got peppermint chocolate. I like it, but I shouldn't have it. Cordelia likes the idea of it, but she seldom actually drinks it.

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Scott took his Science Olympiad team and Cordelia to the local natural history museum's planetarium this morning. Scott is a bit annoyed at the young woman who was running the show because she very obviously didn't know what she was talking about. As an example, she kept saying 'galaxy' when she meant 'solar system.'

After that, Scott and Cordelia went looking for a sleeping bag. They went to two or three different stores before they found something appropriate. The new sleeping bag isn't rated for cold weather; it's meant to be used when it's warmish (I think the tag said 40 F to 60 F, but it also mentioned summer time use). I don't expect she'll be using it anywhere that's colder than 40 F, not unless something goes seriously wrong.

Cordelia wanted me to come along to drop her off at the slumber party, so I did. After we left her, Scott and I went to Meier's to do our grocery shopping. That's not normally where we go, but it was close to the party and on our way home. It's occasionally a good idea to try shopping somewhere new. Sometimes, we find new things that we really like.

We had to stop at Kroger on the way home anyway because I had two prescriptions to pick up, and Scott may have to make a stop at Busch's mid-week because that's the only place that carries the particular brand of chicken sausages that I eat for lunches (a lot of types of sausages give me reflux, so I'm cautious). It will depend on how the week goes.

I do have to go into town some time this week. I have long term disability paperwork to be filled out by my psychiatrist, and the sooner I get that to her the better. She said she'd still be willing to fill it out after her baby arrives, but we both agreed it was better all around to get it done before that. I'd do it Monday, but I shall have three kids all day (and, if Cordelia is correct, four kids for part of the day). Tuesday or Wednesday will be soon enough.