I'm Bored

I'm a little bit bored right now. My parents took Maggie and Michael to The Village for the day. My brother is sleeping. And, I found out that my honey came home early from the UP and is home already. I wish I could be home with him. But, I'm so thankful that my parents enjoy my children and want to spend the day with them.

I'll probably head out and do a little shopping. I hate driving in this area and I also tend to refuse to shop anywhere on Saturdays. I'm a bit of a crowd coward. But, the thought of going alone sounds pleasant. Maybe I'll wait and see if my brother will take me :)

Happy Vacation

We went on a vacation! Jamie was even able to take Sunday off work. Sort of a big deal. He's an Associate Minister and Sunday's are a major work day for him. He gets a few off a year, but hasn't taken any because of the craziness of this year. Anyway...

We left Thursday morning for our UP house in Seney, MI. We stopped at the bridge and went to the fort. Michael has always wanted to go there and we thought we'd do it this trip. It was pretty neat. Not my favorite thing to do. But, Michael loved it. They fired off a cannon and a couple guns. I tell ya', this kid is not afraid to talk to anyone. After the musket shooting he walked right up to the 'soldiers' and had a discussion about a modern war taking place at the fort. They didn't laugh at him at all. So cute!

After the fort we took the kids down to the lake. We actually went under the Mackinac Bridge. I've never done that before. Pretty neat.

My in-laws met us up there that evening and we just hung out together. Friday morning we woke up and headed out to Grand Marais and went to the beach there. That night we went over to Marquette to watch the fire works. Wow. Those were the biggest loudest fire works I have ever seen. Very impressive. Scary too. Fire works are one of my biggest fears. Now you know.

The rest of the weekend was spent relaxing and cleaning up the house. It was a great time!

Gettin' Ready

I think I did a pretty good job on the house yesterday. The bedrooms and bathroom upstairs are neat and tidy. I did lots of laundry and it's all put away. I only did part of the dishes, but that's all right. I made a simple dinner of canned soup, canned peaches, and home made biscuits (I make the best!). Overall it was a good day. To top things off, Jamie went to the grocery store last night for me.

I've been bustin' my booty just as much today. Maggie and I went to story time at the library and had a Valentine's party. It was fun. I've been doing dishes and laundry again. Just small loads this time. So, it was a lot easier to tackle. My mother-in-law stopped over to chit-chat with me while I was baking and left me a bowl full of Dove chocolates. Yea, I've already gotten into them :) Thanks mom!

I just finished baking chocolate chip cookie's and banana/chocolate chip/walnut muffins for our UP trip. I haven't started packing yet. Hopefully that will get done sometime today. I'm trying not to stress over it. I've got a rough list going, but nothing put together so far.

I'm leaving with Mag's in a few minutes to get Michael from school. Since we're headed up north tomorrow I want to make sure he remembers to bring home his snow pants and boots. So I'll go to the school early and walk in. He'll probably have a lot of stuff to take home anyway. Today was his Valentine's party too.

Later this afternoon... or would that be early evening? Anyway, he has swimming lessons. I'd skip it, but it's been canceled the past two weeks due to the weather. I think it would be good to have him go.

Hope you all have a great weekend. Hopefully I'll have pictures to share from our mini vacation. And, maybe some news to share from my friend Katie who's going to have a baby soon!

Radom thoughts

I think we are all 'healthy'. Whatever that means? No one seems to be blowing their noses or coughing. That's a good thing. Although, my head hurts a lot.

I worked in Michael's classroom this morning. The teacher became side tracked by a question asked by a student and decided to help the kids figure out how many hours a week they spent at school with each other. Appx. 37.5 hours. That's crazy! I'm almost tempted to home school. I know that it wouldn't take that long to teach/learn the stuff he's learning in a given week. Alas, that is not the route we have chosen for our children's main academic learning.

I'm looking forward to this weekend. Michael has Thursday and Friday off for teacher work days. We're going to head up to our place in Seney for a few days. We'll head over to Marquette Friday night to watch the dog sled races begin. Michael and Jamie went last year. It should be fun for all of us.

Michael has an appointment at the oral surgeon's office this afternoon to check on the progress of his teeth. Remember how he smashed in two adult teeth during Christmas? Well, we're hoping that having him eat soft foods for 40 days would have given them enough time to heal. We'll see.

The kids and I had a great time at my parents house this weekend. We just hung out. It was nice for Maggie to be able to play with different toys. Michael and my dad went out to the Museum for an afternoon. My brother took me on a couple of errands. It was relaxing and nice to be taken care of. Thanks family!

I suppose that's all the excitement around here. It's cold. And, I have to head out again in about 15 minutes. It's been a run around kind of day. I'll plan on staying home tomorrow.