Memorial Day (Weekend)

Trying to keep the kids quiet while hubs sleeps during the day is no easy task so it's been a lot of errands in the morning and quiet afternoons watching movies until he wakes up. Took them to get donuts, the store, the park, Target, picked up lunch. Today we went back to the store to return something, another store and yet another store. Just browsing... but we did pick up a Father's day gift :-) Also got end of year teacher gifts done. Spent a lot of time in the kitchen today prepping meals, lunches, and making muffins. Missing vacation something fierce today.

What vacation?

What a week. I went back to work a week ago Thursday. Aidan had baseball that night. Friday the kids didn't have school so Rick was with them while I went to work. Saturday we went to Dozer Days, gymnastics and baseball. Home after 6pm. Sunday church and football. Hubs went back to work that day. Yeah. NIGHT SHIFT. Lots of potential changes coming our way...
Tuesday Abby and I out the door at 7 for her ortho appt. Poor hubs worked all night and I needed him to stay up because it's the Tuesday that we also take the neighbor girls to school and I was already gone with Abby. Tuesday was Aidan's first day of selling dog tags at school to raise money for the Wounded Warrior Project. They sold out that day (all but 6). $425 raised! Tuesday night baseball. Didn't get home until 830 and he had (finally) a great hit. Poor kid is having a rough season this year which makes it not fun for him. Wednesday I left work again because Aidan was getting an award at Chapel for being loyal. They have different themes each month. Had the pest control people out as well. After work we went to Benihana to use my bday certificate. Friday kids had early release. Rick was off since working nights so he was able to get them. Took me an hour to get home with the Holiday weekend traffic. Today we went to breakfast and then back home to leave the family so I could run errands alone. More efficient. Spent the rest of day finishing cleaning the house and working out.

10 days.

We left town Sunday May 4th.  Got up at 245am. Flew to Florida. Drove to Cocoa Beach to spend the night. Ate dinner at 930pm at a great pizza place. Got to see a beautiful sunrise!! Monday morning to Cape Canaveral where we boarded the Disney Magic and cruised the Bahamas for 5 days. I ended up working until 11pm almost each night. My job SUCKS THE LIFE OUT OF ME. Went to the Atlantis Resort (would not go back) and our favorite stop Castaway Cay. Got off the ship on Friday at 7am drove to Waffle House (first things first), our hotel, then to Epcot (scorching melting heat). Saturday we decided to sleep in and went to Cracker Barrel and then to Downtown Disney and the hotel pool. Picked up their annual Christmas ornaments too! Sunday was Sea World and horse drawn carriage ride at Port Orleans. Sunday night I did payroll since Monday was my birthday and we spent it at the all inclusive Discovery Cove. THAT was incredible. I would forgo all the parks just to do that instead. Dolphin encounter/swim, snorkeling, floating the river. Breakfast, snacks, lunch, beverages, included. Did I mention a slurpee machine? Yeah. I went to that thing like 5 times. Went to dinner at Chuys. We do not have all these great food places here! Tuesday we were going to drive to St. Augustine but got a really late start and I was afraid we wouldn't be back in time for our flight so we went to Gatorland and then drove to Winter Garden to Mrs. Bee's popcorn store- loaded baked potato popcorn. Oh so yummy. Got home at 1 am. Unpacked, started laundry, in bed by 2am. BOTH kids up before 6. Seriously shoot me now. But it was a good early start- threw them in the bath, took them to school, went grocery shopping, car wash, picked up the dog.  Sooo happy to see Cooper! Aidan is speaking in front of his whole school today at Chapel to present his service project. A few months ago he wanted to recruit all the boys in his class and sell football jerseys but those are spendy for the up front costs and then marking them up- not sure how many would sell. So it turned into dog tags with the proceeds going to the Wounded Warrior Project. He will sell them durning lunch next week. Abby was doing homework right up until we got in the car to leave this morning. SO MUCH HOMEWORK.
I stashed a week of freezer meals plus I have birthday coupons and this morning Rick found out he won dinner for a YEAR from WOW burger. So funny. So... I'm stretching out this no cooking gig for a little while longer.