I NEED a Vacation!

I need a vacation soooo bad! We're outta here on Saturday for 10 days in Florida and I feel like a little kid - I am so excited. This will be our first bigger vacation in a few years. We bought a pop-up camper 10 years ago and then upgraded 2 years ago to a 27-foot camper. It's beautiful and all.....I have a sink, stove, great bathroom, a place to plug in my curling iron.....what more can a girl ask for? Oh yea.......a RELAXING vacation! Camping is NOT a break for me. I still have to cook, clean, pack and unpack a mini-house, plan for a week for food, not to mention the fact that the kids get disgusting playing in all the filth! We go to great places and do have fun together but it's just really not all that relaxing for me. Bill gets to unwind with the kids but....I put on a happy face and enjoy it as much as I can but I LIVE for these types of vacations.......5-star resort, tons of pools, eating out for every meal, naps, oooooooooo I can't wait!

My Hubby Rocks!

I had a wonderful Mother's Day today - probably one of the best I've had in the past 10 years. It was more of a Mother's Weekend and it was just what I needed. On Saturday, Bill had me come downstairs under the guise of not being able to find juice for Ryan and suprised me with a beautiful jewelry armoire. It is the one I had been looking at for quite a while and had been dropping some hints. After 14 years of marriage - he's finally pretty good a figuring me out! At any rate - it was exactly what I wanted and it's perfect. Saturday afternoon I went to a tea at a British Tea Room in Grand Rapids with my sisters and my mom and it was relaxing and cozy. Bill met me there with the kids and we went to see his mom. In the past we've tried to cram seeing everyone into one day and this year we broke it up. It made me feel like the day was more about me since I am the one that is a current hands-on mom.......in several other years I've felt like it was more about his mom than me. This year he got it right! :)
Today we went to church and then went to my moms for lunch. I literally did not lift a finger! He made a great lunch with the guys, cleaned up, watched the kids, changed Rys diapers,....everything! I felt like a spoiled brat and I loved every minute of it. We came home and he told me to do whatever I wanted. So I took a NAP - what a treat! This evening life returned to normal and I had to start prepping for tomorrow and a return to reality..........bleh.

PATHETIC!

I am the worst gardener ever......I don't even think I should say gardener. I have no clue what I'm doing when it comes to plants. I can distinguish a weed from a flower so all is not lost but overall, I am pathetic. It is an annual tradition for me to kill at least a 1/2-dozen plants. This year, it's our pretty, flowering shrubs (or at least they were) in front of the house. I apparently trimmed them back this fall and now they are 3/4ths dead and look atrocious. At least the landscape company likes me - they are probably anticipating my phone call. I have dozens of books on gardening and still have no clue. Maybe it's like being able to roll your tongue or not.....some people are born with it and some people try and fail over and over again.

I Love A Bargain

Tracy called Holly today about some great deals at Elder-Beerman. As fate would have it, the clothes were in my girls sizes and were marked down extremely low. For me, finding a good deal is like hunting deer is for men - it's my "sport" of choice! So, I told Tracy to be my "personal shopper" and stock up. She called me a few hours later and said she had gotten me $1,100.00 worth of clothes......I braced for the total and about fell over when she said it came to $80something......You have GOT to be freakin' kidding me! That so ROCKS! Man......do I need a life or what?!?!