Coming down

I'm starting to come down from a very busy 3 weeks at work. It kind of feels good to be "bored" again. I have a much needed 10 day vacation coming up. I will be taking my two kids to NJ to visit with their cousins. However, traveling alone with two children should hardly be considered a "vacation". It's more stressful then being at home with them. Not to mention all the "getting ready" for vacation! But I was smart and planned for half of our vacation to be spent at home. Hopefully doing not much more than watching movies and going to the park.

I'm looking forward to seeing a friend I haven't seen in 10 yrs! And meeting her two little boys. And for her to meet my two little ones.

Interesting...

I just got one of my credit card statements and I noticed on it there is now a section that has a breakdown of how long it would take you to pay off your balance if you only made your minumum payment. If I only paid my $15 a month min due, it would take me 4 yrs to pay off my $526 balance. 4 YEARS! It also showed that I would pay $33 in interest over those 4 yrs. Holy cow, no wonder the credit card companies are making BILLIONS every year. Could you imagine taking 4 yrs to payoff $526? Hmmm, I don't even want to know how much I will have paid on my mortgage when that gets paid off in 29 yrs. 29 yrs... ugh...

So long January...

Wow, a whole month gone in the blink of an eye.

So dang cute...

So, I have this very bad habit of grabbing my children by the shoulders and gently moving them out of my way whenever they are in my way, instead of just saying excuse me. So I did this to my daughter last night and I said to myself, "why do i do that? it is so rude, just say excuse me." So I went over to my daughter and apologized for doing it to her and that from now on I'm going to say excuse me when I need her to move. She loves to tell me "secrets" in my ear. So she says "Mama, let me tell you a secret" so I bend down so she can whisper in my ear. "Don't tell anyone but you can push me out of the way whenever you want to and I will still love you", she says to me. Unconditional love doesn't come more unconditional than that. I picked her up and told her that it is NOT OK for me to do that to her and I won't do it anymore. Then she squeezed me so hard I thought she was going to pop my head off.

And this people, is why having kids is the most amazing experience in the whole wide world.

And I'm back...

Having 17 days off work in a row has its pros and cons.

Pros:
I had half a month off!
Being able to stay in bed until whenever we (me and the kids) wanted.
Watching lots of TV and movies.
Naps... ahhh, lovely naps.

Cons:
Going back to work.
Going back to work.
Going back to work.

It's like living in some kind of suspended reality. We do nothing but eat junk food and watch TV despite all my grand plans of "taking them here" and "doing that". And of course, doing school work everyday! Weirdly enough, life does not seem normal unless I am in the routine of a work schedule. All life revolves around the work/school schedule. The thought of not working is kind of scary to me. But it's nice to pretend once a year.

Well, I'm back to the land of the working. Yay for me. I was getting used to getting paid to sit at home watching TV and taking my kids to the park.

I have spent my entire morning researching travel packages to Ireland. Me and my hubby have wanted to go for YEARS now and now we have this cockamamy idea to actually move there. We're thinking of going for a week in Oct. After all, how can you move to a country you never even visited? We also have a strange travel phenomena. The first time we visit somewhere we LOVE it and discuss moving there. The second time we visit, it's OK but wonder if it's actually worth moving there. The third time, we're over it. It's just like everywhere else and def not worth the hassle of moving there. But we'll see about Ireland. Neither one of us has ever even been out of the country before so it will be a major culture shock.

Almost there... just hold on a few more days

I swear, time is moving in HYPER speed lately. It needs to SSSLLLLOOOOWWWWWW down. Just a little bit. Only two more days til vaca, i'm counting the seconds as we speak...

4 days til vaca!

4 days left until my 2 week long vaca. This is torture! My mind has been on vaca since Monday anyway.