trips

1. No paper in the hallway

This is a pretty exciting thing.  First -- the paper has only been down for a week and a half but for some reason that can feel like a life time.  This morning I didn't have to creep by Jack's room on my way to the gym praying I didn't wake him up on my way out the door at 4am.  The paper being up ALSO means that our house is not a construction site.  We are almost done with the bathroom.  We are still waiting on the bullnose tile (yes...I have learned a lot of new vocabulary) and then the shower door will be installed and we can fully use the bathroom.  Right now we have a working toilet and sink and it is all pretty wonderful.  We are thrilled.

2. First baseball game was successful

Mike is the coach again this year for little league.  We decided to go with the same little league so that during the month of June the boys will be able to spend more weeks with their dad in Chicago.  We are still working with them on fundamentals at home during the afternoon and next year I think we will switch to a different league.  ANYWAYS -- tonight was the first game and it went smoothly.  Mike did great, the twins did great, Jack did great, and my parents did great.  All of the moving parts worked well.  

Sorry -- I have no pictures.  My phone was dying AND I had rain boots on because I was trying to dress cute and walking in them is for the birds.

3. 100%

Cameron's teacher gives updates throughout the day that we can view using an app called Class Dojo.  If the kids get better than a 90% she sends home a good note.  Almost every single day Cameron gets 100%.  He is the best.

4. Vacation planning

I have a great job.  I actually help people in during the deepest despair of their lives.  That being said -- there are days that my job is slow.  So for example, today, I was only originally assigned 8 patients, even after picking up more it was insanely slow.  During my free time today I decided to research our next vacation.  We plan on doing a big trip next March but as I sat there I decided that March was too far away soo now we are going somewhere in October.  We will have to pinch our pennies (which we already do) and save save save BUT I am super excited to plan our next trip.

5. Our next trip...

while I am on the topic of trips.....In less than a month we are all going to San Diego and I am PUMPED.  It will be an adventure on the plane with 3 young boys but it will still be pretty awesome.

6. The craziness
I am grateful for the craziness because it usually means that our lives are full but this week we forgot to go to swimming lessons!!!!! what??!!! This isn't that big of deal but we are already missing a week for San Diego.  This means we are only doing 4 weeks and that is a lot of money for 4 weeks of lessons.  I am still in shock that we forgot to go.  Instead we had pizza at the Harris house.  Holy moly -- this makes me feel the need to slow down.