Spring Break Hits Hard

Spring Break has come and gone and for us it was a real treat this year. We have spent the past several years during Spring Break doing yard work or remodeling the house we owned in an effort to try to sell. This past November we finally sold the house. No more yard work, No more remodels for Spring Break, well until we buy another house I guess. The kids have suffered for the past 3 years with nothing really exciting to do for Spring Break. They have been real troopers and haven't complained about not getting to do anything exciting. This year we decided to treat them for it now that the house had sold and we don't have two house payments, let do something fun. Let's Go To DisneyLand!!!

Well, we planned it in November, but didn't tell the kids at all. We planned it to meet my sister and husband their little one and my parents were going as well. We did tell the kids a couple days before that we were going to go on a trip to see Grandma and Grandpa, but nothing more. We drove out on Tuesday and by the time we hit the California state line the kids were really confused. We started giving them hints that the Grandparents weren't at home, that we were going to go see them on vacation. Celeste starting putting things together and a few miles into the borders of California, she screamed out "We're going to Disneyland!!" The rest is as you can imagine, pure fun. We had a blast throughout the week. We spent 1 1/2 days in California Adventure, and 2 1/2 days in Disneyland. The girls got to see and get pictures taken with a lot of the their favorite Disney Characters. We spent lots of time on rides, watched parades and shows and had a blast. The kids did really well, no fighting or complaining of long lines. No one wet their pants (other than on the log ride and raft ride :) ). The trip home was a bit of a pain. We ran into snow in Arizona and the highway was shut down to further travel. We tried back tracking through another route, but again more snow so we ended up spending an extra 1/2 night in a hotel before continuing. We got home a day later and the kids missed an extra day of school, but no complaints. Would I do it again, "Heck ya!!!"

A New Addiction

A new addiction… It’s like a treasure hunt… Like a scavenger hunt… Searching for the end of the rainbow… It’s crack…Pinterest.com…What has happened to me? My husband checks up on me because Facebook tattle tells when I “pin” something. He’s becoming concern. I find myself planning during the day when I can log into the website and be able to focus on scrolling. 

There are so many chocolate treats and desserts that I am almost nauseated by the overload of sweet images. I sound off their names just to hear my husband say “ooooooooo”. Knitted projects are very popular as well. Unfortunately their patterns don’t come with a video for me to follow the pattern. So now I feel even more inadequate with my crocheting. I like finding money-saving alternate ways to make homemade cleaners and laundry soap. I’m not too impressed with the Art section because there is mostly advertisement of tattoos, but I love the DIY, Home Décor, and Gardening section. The gardening ideas have been great. I’m already itching to plant seeds to watch them sprout. I did plant some cucumber and dill seeds to celebrate my Dad’s birthday, March 2^nd. I miss him so much. We would have been planning a garden together if he was still here. He has been gone for 12 years today because of cancer, and it is still hard to deal with. However, I know he would love having garden seeds planted for him. Now I just need to make sure my kitty does not eat the seedlings.