Well, spring break is over and I am still alive, as are all of the children and the husband too! We actually had a nice break. We have a new living room floor and will soon have a new kitchen one too. We have new furniture that we got at a great deal. A couch, love seat, and rocking chair for six hundred dollars. I'll tell you right now, I don't know what I will do without tax refunds once the kids are gone and we don't get much. This year we got enough to do our floors, replace our stained tattered furniture, pay off some debt and publish my books.
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| NEW LIVING ROOM FLOOR (AND LITTLE BUTT) |
What was the funnest part of our little vacation? Just doing nothing too important! I didn't make the kids do too many chore projects (laundry is still behind but we'll catch up...eventually). About 3/4 of the way through we decided that maybe we shouldn't put off the flooring or furniture any longer so the last few days were really busy but the rest of the time included lots of x box time, reading time, social networking time. It was really fun!
The weather was great most days so the little ones got to go outside and play which was a life saver for us. Cabin fever can kiss my a**! This is not to say that there still aren't some lingering effects. The kids fought like crazy. The Senior and The Freshman, Miss Crazy and Mr. Insane, Mr Insane and Little Butt. Those are the times when I am tempted to have that dungeon built under our home...but then they start getting along again and we start to have fun. There were lots of family dinners (lunches and breakfasts too) And The Shooter took the time to have a father/child date with each of the kids. Doesn't happen often with his work schedule, that's for sure!
I published my two books and have done a lot of social networking. I see words like twitter, linkedin, facebook, etc. floating before my eyes while I sleep now. :/ But the kids are back in school. The Shooter is back at work and as soon as I am done typing up this blog I will be starting work on book 2 of the Sunset Destiny Romance series. I am excited to get back to work, but I wish spring break was just another week long!
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| THE FRESHMAN AND MISS CRAZY ON THE NEW LOVE SEAT |
I didn't get much chance to sleep in because I had so much networking to do and we had so much work the last couple of days (floor and furniture) but that's okay because when I got home from dropping Miss Crazy off at school this morning. I laid back down and fell back to sleep for a bit and then the shooter took me out for breakfast. So all is now good with the world...except...I have to drive daily again...blech and I have to do it in the snow today. The forecast said high forties, partly cloudy and chance of rain showers in the afternoon. By nine o'clock it was snowing like crazy. We aren't supposed to get much, but it was totally not what we'd been expecting. I had shorts picked out for Little Butt to wear around the house and I think The Senior was planning on wearing a dress. So, the winter coats came back out and we are eagerly looking forward to the sixty degree weather coming up later in the week. After writing all of this, I think the key word for this last week was....RELAXING. I finally had a chance to relax a bit. Not totally because after all, I am a mom, but some. That's fine by me! I enjoyed it thoroughly!!!
Until next time...Sometimes breaks aren't for seeing how much fun you can get into a short period. Once in a while when you get that break, just enjoy it. Just relax and be grateful that you aren't super busy for once. <3
2 comments:
During our spring breaks (which are at the end of this month) I end up doing too much of nothing, and then play catch-up the entire next week. Hanging with the kids is way more fun than laundry and scrubbing floors.
If we hadn't torn the house apart and put it back together we would be very behind too! And yes, I agree it is way more fun than laundry and scrubbing floors!
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