I know, I know, but I have a good excuse...?

Brian, his dad, Ron, and Stella at the Geology Museum

 

I know, I KNOW, I've been quiet on here of late.  That's because I was g-o-n-e GONE! Yep, I got to leave my house for a whole week and two weekends.  It was lovely, too short, too long of a drive and lovely.  Did I mention lovely? It was! I didn't have to worry about all the millions of things I should be doing and instead got to visit and relax a bit. 

What did we do exactly?

• Friday - drove to NE
• Saturday - visited the gorgeous Tiffany and her family and as a bonus got to meet the beautiful Alicia & her family.  It was so nice to catch up and I wish we'd had more time but we had to jump back in the car and drive the rest of the way to WI.
• Sunday - recovered? I don't think we did anything special just played games, visited, etc.  It rained like crazy
• Monday - went to the Geology Museum at the University of Wisconsin, visited Ella's Deli and did a little shopping at Farm & Fleet
• Tuesday - went to Dubuque, IA to visit the great-grandparents
• Wednesday - went over near Milwaukee to visit Brian's brother & family.  Snowed and snowed today
• Thursday - I don't really recall?
• Friday - went out to breakfast, shopping at Shopko and then that evening Brian's sister & family came to visit.  This was the super cold day of our visit, only single digits for highs.
• Saturday - more playing with cousins followed by driving
• Sunday - endless driving

Now that we're back, we have 1,000,001 things to do.  I had to write it all out as it was scrambling my brain trying to keep it all straight.  I did a list of todo's:

To Do	Priority	Time?	When
bag up games	1	½ day	february
clean girl's room	1	1-2 days	february
clean out spare room	1	1-3 days	february
clean out spare room closet	1	1 day	february
clean up magazines in my room	1	½ day	february
decide on pics for gallery wall	1	½ day	february
finish painting living room	1	2-3 days	february
get estimates for house painting	1	½ day	february
get perm filling	1	½ day	february
My closet and clothes	1	½ day	february
organize girls' clothes	1	1 day	february
paint frames for gallery wall	1	½ day	february
print pics for gallery wall	1	½ day	february
sort out crafts (kids)	1	1 day	february
sort out crafts (mine)	1	1 day	february
downstairs toys	2	1 day
laundry room clothes	2	1 day
paint kitchen	3	2-3 days
laundry room toys, etc	3	1-2 days
compost bin?	4
paint floors	4	2-5 days
paint hall	4	1 day
prime floors	4	2-5 days
stencil floors	4	5+ days
tear out carpet – living room & hall	4	2-3 days
tear out linoleum	4	2-3 days

What we have to do each week for appointments and such:
Violin
Pony Lessons
Dance practice
Therapy (every-other week)
Therapy group
Work (me)
Archery (I think, starts in a couple weeks)
Quasi-school

And every month:
4H
Group Violin
Psych in Denver

Plus the extras for February:
Hearts & Horses, deliver bears
Kid's Club at Library
LEAP Ice Skating @ Centerra
Fiber fun fest
Shooting sports mtg
Chicken mtg
Deliver hats at MCR

And March:
Livestock field day
Sante Fe
Easter
Soccer starts (2 practices + 1 game every week)

Oh, and I almost forgot that we need to get our taxes done!

This is why I like vacation.  I can forget about all of the above and do whatever I want, which was embroider a dish towel, play games, go shopping, and do a lot of visiting.  I think I need another one of those vacations RIGHT. NOW.

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