Busy Weeks!

The weeks are so busy!  I can't wait until Monday comes around when there is nowhere I have to go or nothing I have to do. 

My daughter has a field trip tomorrow to a one-room school house.  They want them to dress like the days from that time period.  I don't have skirts down to their shoes, etc.  I am going to run out today to see if I can find a Holly Hobby halloween costume or something like that for next to nothing.  I am going to try the Goodwill first.  Maybe I'll get lucky and find something suitably "old-fashioned".  I am surrounded by Amish but I think it'd be a bit rude to ask them for clothes.   

My other daughter has a field trip to a farm, soccer practice and game, cheerleading, football game, riding, etc.  I have to get an auto insurance quote and schedule eye appointments. I need an assistant!  I need to find a new home for the little stray allergy ball of cat fur that has made herself so at home in our house.   So much to do!

I encourage the kids to sign up for sports, etc., but secretly start wishing for the end of the season by halfway through the season!  With four kids, and just myself to take care of it all, I can't help it.

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Vacation Soon!

We're heading to Michigan for vacation soon! I'm excited to finally get some time away! We'll be visiting family, seeing the stepkids for the day we will be in their area , and then heading to northern Michigan to see more family. We always take our kids everywhere we go pretty much but it would be nice to leave them at the in-laws for a night and just take off with my husband to the dunes or something. I've never been to Sleeping Bear Dunes though I did vacation on Beaver Island once and I got around in a rented jeep that I took off-road (the island doesn't allow you to take your own vehicles there). They should get some real off-road vehicles like the Yamaha Rhine 660 for people to rent. That would have been much more fun than the retired mail jeep that I rented!

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