Yes, it's that time of year again - time to head off to California for my nephew's birthday. We haven't missed a single one of his birthdays (he's 5 this year), nor have we missed a single one of my niece's (she'll be 9 in June). Well, D doesn't go for hers usually, and Mom did miss one, but M and I have made EVERY ONE!!!!!
SO - we're working this morning, then heading off to catch a 4:25 flight to California. The bags are packed and we're pretty much ready to go.
The party is tomorrow at some sort of jungle themed indoor jungle gym type place - should be fun for the kids and hopefully no stress for the rest of us. Then Sunday we're getting the kids' pictures taken - all 5 of them as my sister's boyfriend has 2 as well. Should be fun getting two 8 year olds, a 6, 5, and 3 year old all to sit still for pictures... but we've done this nearly every year with M and my niece and nephew, so what's 2 more, right? :)
We head home Monday after a brief visit with my great Aunt on the way to the airport. Should be a fun weekend! Always is...
OH! AND Did I mention we awoke to snow yesterday? Of course by midday it was all melted and like 50 degrees outside, but ended up with a 2 hour delay at the charter school I go and teach at because of it. This morning, just frost and ice. OH JOY!
Friday, February 27, 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Ash Wednesday
It seems as if I have these spurts of posting where I post a couple things at a time, then go like a week without. OH WELL!
SO - today is Ash Wednesday. Growing up Catholic, that meant going to Mass and getting a cross drawn on your forehead with ashes which you wore for the rest of the day. It also meant the beginning of the Lent season. In my house Lent meant giving something up until Easter. The idea being that Jesus sacrificed his own life for us, therefore we can sacrifice SOMETHING for him during these few weeks. I never quite got the hang of how giving up chocolate and giving up your life equated, but who was I to question?
Well, as we are not practicing Catholics (Mom still is, of course, although I can't remember the last time she saw the inside of a Catholic church), we have been less than adherent to the whole "giving something up for lent" thing. This year, I decided to give M the chance to decide for herself.
I explained to her that "when I was growing up" we did this, Grandma still does it, and does she want to. I told her that while our current church celebrates Lent, we do not do the giving something up thing, so it was entirely up to her. She decided to do it. SO - she has given up watching TV shows. Movies are OK, just not TV shows. AND, there's some flexibility here as we can only control things in our own home, so if she's at another house and the TV is on, that's technically OK. Hey - more power to her for doing this!
Am I giving something up this year? WELL, yes, I am! I have given up drive-thrus (not fast food, just the drive thru so it makes life way more inconvenient for me to get the crappy food - who likes to go INSIDE????) AND soda.
Sounds easy enough, right? Well, this morning already I was put to the test. The housekeeper came earlier than expected, which threw our groove off. OK, just my groove, but it meant I didn't get breakfast. That's OK, I'll just hit Starbuck's on the way to work. WAIT! That's a drive-thru...so now I have to go inside Starbuck's to get my coffee and fruit/yogurt parfait. UGH! AND - I can't swing by Walgreens to pick up the Diet Coke for my lunch b/c now I'm not drinking that, so I had to go and get some Diet Green Tea for my lunch - which was packed, and not gotten through a drive thru.
Going to be interesting how this goes... bet M does better with no TV than I do with no soda or drive thrus! Already worried about what I'm going to eat for dinner tonite...
SO - today is Ash Wednesday. Growing up Catholic, that meant going to Mass and getting a cross drawn on your forehead with ashes which you wore for the rest of the day. It also meant the beginning of the Lent season. In my house Lent meant giving something up until Easter. The idea being that Jesus sacrificed his own life for us, therefore we can sacrifice SOMETHING for him during these few weeks. I never quite got the hang of how giving up chocolate and giving up your life equated, but who was I to question?
Well, as we are not practicing Catholics (Mom still is, of course, although I can't remember the last time she saw the inside of a Catholic church), we have been less than adherent to the whole "giving something up for lent" thing. This year, I decided to give M the chance to decide for herself.
I explained to her that "when I was growing up" we did this, Grandma still does it, and does she want to. I told her that while our current church celebrates Lent, we do not do the giving something up thing, so it was entirely up to her. She decided to do it. SO - she has given up watching TV shows. Movies are OK, just not TV shows. AND, there's some flexibility here as we can only control things in our own home, so if she's at another house and the TV is on, that's technically OK. Hey - more power to her for doing this!
Am I giving something up this year? WELL, yes, I am! I have given up drive-thrus (not fast food, just the drive thru so it makes life way more inconvenient for me to get the crappy food - who likes to go INSIDE????) AND soda.
Sounds easy enough, right? Well, this morning already I was put to the test. The housekeeper came earlier than expected, which threw our groove off. OK, just my groove, but it meant I didn't get breakfast. That's OK, I'll just hit Starbuck's on the way to work. WAIT! That's a drive-thru...so now I have to go inside Starbuck's to get my coffee and fruit/yogurt parfait. UGH! AND - I can't swing by Walgreens to pick up the Diet Coke for my lunch b/c now I'm not drinking that, so I had to go and get some Diet Green Tea for my lunch - which was packed, and not gotten through a drive thru.
Going to be interesting how this goes... bet M does better with no TV than I do with no soda or drive thrus! Already worried about what I'm going to eat for dinner tonite...
a day in the life
Amazingly I have a spare moment here to spend on a little blogging. Life has been absolutely crazy lately with work and such. I've been working on testing a kid to determine if he has a learning disability, so I've been adding in trips out to his school (also in the middle of nowhere - I don't see any kids who go to schools in town) to administer the tests.
SO - my typical day has been:
8:15 - take M to school
then head out to middle of nowhere school #1 to see kids
11ish - leave middle of nowhere #1 and head to middle of nowhere #2 for testing - eat lunch in the car
2ish - head back to town to go by the jail and get that work done, or go to a meeting, or go make copies, or whatever that particular day has in store for me
3ish - p/u M at school and take her to whatever her daily activity is (today is sewing)
5ish - p/u M from activity and head home for dinner and PM activities (last nite was knitting for M and I, tonite I'm going to a stamping/scrapbooking club while D takes M to his rugby coach/parent meeting)
9ish - collapse on comfy chair in PJ's - watch TV and cross stitch
10ish - drag my lazy ass upstairs to bed - read 1 chapter of my book (or more if I have that much energy) before falling dead asleep until morning when it starts over again
The good news? I only work 3/4 time, so it could be crazier if I was a full-time employee! Such is the life of a teacher though - if you are supposed to work part-time, you work full-time, and if you are supposed to work full-time, you work overtime. When I was a full-time teacher, I was putting in easily 50-60 hours a week between the time in the classroom, the paper grading, planning, and then on top of that the Special Ed paperwork/meetings/etc. SO - as much as it may sound like I'm complaining, I'm very happy with my "part-time" job!
SO - my typical day has been:
8:15 - take M to school
then head out to middle of nowhere school #1 to see kids
11ish - leave middle of nowhere #1 and head to middle of nowhere #2 for testing - eat lunch in the car
2ish - head back to town to go by the jail and get that work done, or go to a meeting, or go make copies, or whatever that particular day has in store for me
3ish - p/u M at school and take her to whatever her daily activity is (today is sewing)
5ish - p/u M from activity and head home for dinner and PM activities (last nite was knitting for M and I, tonite I'm going to a stamping/scrapbooking club while D takes M to his rugby coach/parent meeting)
9ish - collapse on comfy chair in PJ's - watch TV and cross stitch
10ish - drag my lazy ass upstairs to bed - read 1 chapter of my book (or more if I have that much energy) before falling dead asleep until morning when it starts over again
The good news? I only work 3/4 time, so it could be crazier if I was a full-time employee! Such is the life of a teacher though - if you are supposed to work part-time, you work full-time, and if you are supposed to work full-time, you work overtime. When I was a full-time teacher, I was putting in easily 50-60 hours a week between the time in the classroom, the paper grading, planning, and then on top of that the Special Ed paperwork/meetings/etc. SO - as much as it may sound like I'm complaining, I'm very happy with my "part-time" job!
Thursday, February 19, 2009
oh, the drama of it all!
Just saw that my last post was about my trip to the doctor with no results given. Turns out it was strep throat. They called with the results and changed my antibiotic from Sulfa to Penicillin. OH JOY! Took M in the next day to get some spots looked at on her b/c when staph was mentioned, I did some research and one symptom of staph is pimple-boil type things. She was tested for staph, but actually had strep as well. She just finished her antibiotics for that this morning, I still have a few more days of mine. So far we're feeling better in that area, are just exhausted beyond belief. Sure that has nothing to do with the long hours I've been working...
AND, to add to the fun...D blew his knee yesterday at rugby practice. He's the coach! I didn't think the coaches got hurt at practice, but apparently MY coach does. He's home today, hobbling around in a knee brace with a cane, awaiting his 1pm appt at the sports medicine clinic. Unfortunately, I've been there, done that with knee injuries and can feel his pain all too well.
Was considering giving myself the morning off today, but then a mother called to see if I was coming to see her son. UGH! Of course I am...so off I go... back to work!
AND, to add to the fun...D blew his knee yesterday at rugby practice. He's the coach! I didn't think the coaches got hurt at practice, but apparently MY coach does. He's home today, hobbling around in a knee brace with a cane, awaiting his 1pm appt at the sports medicine clinic. Unfortunately, I've been there, done that with knee injuries and can feel his pain all too well.
Was considering giving myself the morning off today, but then a mother called to see if I was coming to see her son. UGH! Of course I am...so off I go... back to work!
Monday, February 9, 2009
can't believe it
Last nite as we were coming home from my dear friend's birthday party (at Chuck E. Cheese...way to celebrate 29!), my throat started hurting. Like, really hurting. We're talking like feeling like it's closing off on me hurting. Can't swallow without extreme pain hurting. (you get the picture???).
I thought that I was on the upswing of this multiple month illness - still had the lingering cough, but other than that was doing pretty OK. Till now.
Went to bed early last nite to try and sleep it off. Didn't work. Although at some point during the nite my nose cleared up to the point that I could breath through it again - woo hoo! Small victories...
SO - off to the doctor this morning - I'm on ANOTHER (I think this is the 4th dose) of antibiotics and ANOTHER round of Prednisone (the second one). She also took a throat culture - doesn't think it's strep, but thinks there's definately something going on as everything is inflamed and yucky. OH - and did I mention I have a fever as well? Yep! Just gets better...
AND - the housekeeper is at the house today, so I can't even relax in my own bed - I'm couching it at Mom's house with the dogs - at least she has good TV here for me to watch. My boss was nice enough to reschedule our meeting today, and the school I go to teach at was also nice enough to understand my lack of visiting out there today. SO - other than several phone calls and the usual amount of emails, I'm essentially taking a sick day today. ::fingers crossed::
AND - Part 2 of I can't believe it...it's snowing outside again...
I thought that I was on the upswing of this multiple month illness - still had the lingering cough, but other than that was doing pretty OK. Till now.
Went to bed early last nite to try and sleep it off. Didn't work. Although at some point during the nite my nose cleared up to the point that I could breath through it again - woo hoo! Small victories...
SO - off to the doctor this morning - I'm on ANOTHER (I think this is the 4th dose) of antibiotics and ANOTHER round of Prednisone (the second one). She also took a throat culture - doesn't think it's strep, but thinks there's definately something going on as everything is inflamed and yucky. OH - and did I mention I have a fever as well? Yep! Just gets better...
AND - the housekeeper is at the house today, so I can't even relax in my own bed - I'm couching it at Mom's house with the dogs - at least she has good TV here for me to watch. My boss was nice enough to reschedule our meeting today, and the school I go to teach at was also nice enough to understand my lack of visiting out there today. SO - other than several phone calls and the usual amount of emails, I'm essentially taking a sick day today. ::fingers crossed::
AND - Part 2 of I can't believe it...it's snowing outside again...
Friday, February 6, 2009
The fam-damly goes to school
This morning all 3 of us got up and out of the house bright and early. D was doing a talk in the HS at the charter school I work at, and M was going to "help" me work with my students as she didn't have school today. The dogs were also supposed to join us, but Mother Nature decided to rain on us, so I didn't want them getting all muddy playing outside with the kids, especially since they just got groomed yesterday.
SO - off we went!
D's talk went well with the HS and MS kids - the HS kids have been studying WWII, so D brought his pictures from Auschwitz to share with them as well as some first hand impressions of the concentration camps and such. He created an awesome Power Point presentation and thanks to his company, presented it using a projector on a screen for all the kids. I could hear most of his presentation as it's essentially a one room school house and it sounded awesome! The kids and teachers were very happy to have him and seemed to enjoy his visit and talk and, most importantly, the kids behaved well for him, which for some is quite a feat!
M got to visit and play games with 2 of my elementary students out there - a 3rd grade boy, and a 1st grade boy. She enjoyed herself immensely and has to bone up on her checkers and pick-up-sticks skills for a re-match with the 1st grade boy. Then she sat in on the sharing time in the elementary classroom and made friends with one of the girls in the class. (Isn't it amazing how kids make friends so easily?).
All in all, it was an excellent visit to the school for all. I was a little disappointed that my plans to have the MS girl whom I work with read to M (even though M can read better than her) fell through since she attended D's talk AND was having a tough day in general. BUT, there's always the next time!
SO - off we went!
D's talk went well with the HS and MS kids - the HS kids have been studying WWII, so D brought his pictures from Auschwitz to share with them as well as some first hand impressions of the concentration camps and such. He created an awesome Power Point presentation and thanks to his company, presented it using a projector on a screen for all the kids. I could hear most of his presentation as it's essentially a one room school house and it sounded awesome! The kids and teachers were very happy to have him and seemed to enjoy his visit and talk and, most importantly, the kids behaved well for him, which for some is quite a feat!
M got to visit and play games with 2 of my elementary students out there - a 3rd grade boy, and a 1st grade boy. She enjoyed herself immensely and has to bone up on her checkers and pick-up-sticks skills for a re-match with the 1st grade boy. Then she sat in on the sharing time in the elementary classroom and made friends with one of the girls in the class. (Isn't it amazing how kids make friends so easily?).
All in all, it was an excellent visit to the school for all. I was a little disappointed that my plans to have the MS girl whom I work with read to M (even though M can read better than her) fell through since she attended D's talk AND was having a tough day in general. BUT, there's always the next time!
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Sick Kiddo...Bad Mommy
I shouldn't be surprised that M is not feeling well - Mom and I have both been sick since well before Christmas. BUT, it's still frustrating! She got home from camp this weekend, and started complaining that she didn't feel well. I told her that it was bad form to go away to camp for the weekend then miss school on Monday for being sick, therefore she was going unless I saw a fever or body fluids. I saw neither, and sent her to school with the understanding that she could call me to pick her up AFTER HER WORK WAS DONE if she still wasn't feeling well. The call came at just before 1pm. Apparently she'd been telling the teacher all morning she didn't feel well and the teacher finally gave in after lunch. UGH! Luckily I was all done with my work (mostly) for the day and could go get her. Of course, I had a sick Mom here hanging out while her house was being cleaned.
I got M an appt at the doctor's office and Dr. E says that she definately has some sinus crud going on. She isn't sure it's antibiotic ready, but wrote the Rx just in case it doesn't get better. She suggested a couple things as well, but said it could also just be exhaustion from the weekend. So, we came home and I made M take a nap for an hour (downstairs, on the couch so there's not playing or other stuff in the bedroom). She slept for maybe half of that, but still that's not too bad.
Last nite she was complaining that she "felt terrible" and that no one believed her. I tried to explain that we did believe her, especially since all of us also "feel terrible", unfortunately we have to go on with our lives and can't wait till we start to feel better. Mom explained to her that her job is going to school, so she needs to go ahead and go to her "job" today, the same way the rest of us are, despite feeling terrible. That just added to the drama of "no on believes me". OH BOY!
I did let her stay home today - let her sleep in (she was up till after 10 last nite b/c she couldn't sleep), but then made her take a shower and get dressed. The shower always helps Mom and I feel better, so it would stand to reason it would also help her. After her shower, that was when all hell broke loose...
I told her no TV today. OMG! You would have thought I had told her that she had to scrub the toilets with her tongue by the reaction. "I ALWAYS GET TV WHEN I'M SICK...." Well, not today you don't. Thought she had come to terms with this by setting up her Polly Pockets all over the dining room table and playing with them for a couple hours, then it was TV time again. I explained to her no TV today and she flipped out on me AGAIN. This time it ended with her yelling at me "IT'S LIKE YOU HATE ME!" and running upstairs to her bedroom. Haven't seen her since...
I was nice enough to ask her if, upon hearing the no TV deal this morning, if she wanted to go to school after all. She told me that just b/c she couldn't watch TV at home didn't mean that "POOF!" she was feeling better.
She isn't acting sick - I'm not saying that she doesn't probably feel like crap, trust me, I know how that is, I'm just saying that she could probably suffer through school just as easily as she's suffering through Polly Pockets, playing games on my old PalmPilot, yelling at me, running off, etc.
SO - does that make me a bad Mom that I won't let my "sick kid" watch TV while staying home sick? Am I punishing her for being "sick"? OR, am I just letting her know that being sick isn't a "paid vacation" from school? She's been "sick" several times in the past few weeks, so we came up with the "fever/body fluids" rule - if there's no fever and no body fluid "issues", then there's no TV when you're home sick. Of course, the original plan was that she'd have to lay in bed or on the couch and read a book, but I've obviously lightened up on that a bit allowing her to play Polly Pockets today. I don't think she's faking it, I believe that she truly feels like crap, but I also think that she can suck it up and deal like the rest of us. Trust me, I'd love to stay home sick until I can shake this thing I've got, but do you realize that I'd have been home sick since the beginning of December had I done that? NOT AN OPTION!!!!!
This parenting thing sure is fun, isn't it?
I got M an appt at the doctor's office and Dr. E says that she definately has some sinus crud going on. She isn't sure it's antibiotic ready, but wrote the Rx just in case it doesn't get better. She suggested a couple things as well, but said it could also just be exhaustion from the weekend. So, we came home and I made M take a nap for an hour (downstairs, on the couch so there's not playing or other stuff in the bedroom). She slept for maybe half of that, but still that's not too bad.
Last nite she was complaining that she "felt terrible" and that no one believed her. I tried to explain that we did believe her, especially since all of us also "feel terrible", unfortunately we have to go on with our lives and can't wait till we start to feel better. Mom explained to her that her job is going to school, so she needs to go ahead and go to her "job" today, the same way the rest of us are, despite feeling terrible. That just added to the drama of "no on believes me". OH BOY!
I did let her stay home today - let her sleep in (she was up till after 10 last nite b/c she couldn't sleep), but then made her take a shower and get dressed. The shower always helps Mom and I feel better, so it would stand to reason it would also help her. After her shower, that was when all hell broke loose...
I told her no TV today. OMG! You would have thought I had told her that she had to scrub the toilets with her tongue by the reaction. "I ALWAYS GET TV WHEN I'M SICK...." Well, not today you don't. Thought she had come to terms with this by setting up her Polly Pockets all over the dining room table and playing with them for a couple hours, then it was TV time again. I explained to her no TV today and she flipped out on me AGAIN. This time it ended with her yelling at me "IT'S LIKE YOU HATE ME!" and running upstairs to her bedroom. Haven't seen her since...
I was nice enough to ask her if, upon hearing the no TV deal this morning, if she wanted to go to school after all. She told me that just b/c she couldn't watch TV at home didn't mean that "POOF!" she was feeling better.
She isn't acting sick - I'm not saying that she doesn't probably feel like crap, trust me, I know how that is, I'm just saying that she could probably suffer through school just as easily as she's suffering through Polly Pockets, playing games on my old PalmPilot, yelling at me, running off, etc.
SO - does that make me a bad Mom that I won't let my "sick kid" watch TV while staying home sick? Am I punishing her for being "sick"? OR, am I just letting her know that being sick isn't a "paid vacation" from school? She's been "sick" several times in the past few weeks, so we came up with the "fever/body fluids" rule - if there's no fever and no body fluid "issues", then there's no TV when you're home sick. Of course, the original plan was that she'd have to lay in bed or on the couch and read a book, but I've obviously lightened up on that a bit allowing her to play Polly Pockets today. I don't think she's faking it, I believe that she truly feels like crap, but I also think that she can suck it up and deal like the rest of us. Trust me, I'd love to stay home sick until I can shake this thing I've got, but do you realize that I'd have been home sick since the beginning of December had I done that? NOT AN OPTION!!!!!
This parenting thing sure is fun, isn't it?
Weekend on the Mountain
Last weekend M went to "Snow Camp" up on Mt. Hood. Drop off was 6:30 Friday and pick up 1pm Sunday - makes perfect sense that D and I got a cabin nearby to spend the weekend. I had stayed at this wonderful cabin last summer when she went to summer camp at Arrah Wanna, so just had to book the same place for D & I to stay this time.
We drove up Friday and got there early enough to check-in to the cabin before dropping M off at camp. We hung out there for a little while, played the "Worst Case Scenario" board game (way fun, actually), then headed back down to "town" for dinner at the Zig Zag Inn. YUM!!! M was too excited to get to camp to even have dessert...can you believe that?
So, after dropping her off at camp, we hit the Thriftway to buy a few "essentials" for the weekend - you know, ice cream, candy, cookies, chips - we were NOT responsible adults! In fact, when we got there and unpacked the bags, we had to chuckle b/c the counters looked like a teenager who had just spent the "grocery money" when parents went away for the weekend.
Friday nite we watched "Burn After Reading"...more like "Burn Before Watching" (D's joke, can't take credit for that one, but totally agree!). The only good thing about the movie was watching Brad Pitt play a dumbshit body builder - he nailed it! OH, and George Clooney is hot as ever. Other than that...it sucked!
After the lackluster movie, we went in the hot tub...it's outside at the cabin, so as we're sitting in the hot tub, we're getting rained/snowed on - way cool! Have decided we so totally need a hot tub at home! More TV after our post-hot tub showers, then off to bed.
Saturday I slept in till noon-ish while D spent time reading, watching Lethal Weapon (the cabin has a few movies there to watch), playing cards, hanging out, etc. We played some cards, watched some more movies/TV, read, I worked on my cross stitch, he worked on cross word puzzles...and otherwise did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Saturday nite D made me spaghetti with meat sauce and Texas Toast - yummy! Played more cards before watching another movie - "Shakespeare in Love" - always a favorite! We also watched "Chicago" earlier in the day - not what I expected, but loved it nonetheless.
Sunday we had to be out of the cabin at 11, so we got up and packed up and headed out. Had some time to kill before picking up M at camp so we went and parked in the Thriftway parking lot and slept. Shockingly, D's tummy wasn't too happy (sure it has nothing to do with the snack foods we'd been living on all weekend!).
Picked M up at camp and headed home in time for the SuperBowl (GO STEELERS!).
Our weekend up on the mountain made us really discuss getting a "vacation home" someday. BUT - we decided that besides having to choose between the beach and the mountain (hard choice), we'd also have to use it enough to off set the costs of having it. Not to mention the maintenance of it (you would be surprised how many of the homes near this cabin had tarps on them, theoretically as a result of snow damage to sky lights and such). We do have the Trendwest time share-ish thing that we can go anywhere they have a resort and stay for almost free, so it's kinda the best of both worlds. Still - I'd LOVE to have a mountain cabin - I do love my Mount Hood!
We drove up Friday and got there early enough to check-in to the cabin before dropping M off at camp. We hung out there for a little while, played the "Worst Case Scenario" board game (way fun, actually), then headed back down to "town" for dinner at the Zig Zag Inn. YUM!!! M was too excited to get to camp to even have dessert...can you believe that?
So, after dropping her off at camp, we hit the Thriftway to buy a few "essentials" for the weekend - you know, ice cream, candy, cookies, chips - we were NOT responsible adults! In fact, when we got there and unpacked the bags, we had to chuckle b/c the counters looked like a teenager who had just spent the "grocery money" when parents went away for the weekend.
Friday nite we watched "Burn After Reading"...more like "Burn Before Watching" (D's joke, can't take credit for that one, but totally agree!). The only good thing about the movie was watching Brad Pitt play a dumbshit body builder - he nailed it! OH, and George Clooney is hot as ever. Other than that...it sucked!
After the lackluster movie, we went in the hot tub...it's outside at the cabin, so as we're sitting in the hot tub, we're getting rained/snowed on - way cool! Have decided we so totally need a hot tub at home! More TV after our post-hot tub showers, then off to bed.
Saturday I slept in till noon-ish while D spent time reading, watching Lethal Weapon (the cabin has a few movies there to watch), playing cards, hanging out, etc. We played some cards, watched some more movies/TV, read, I worked on my cross stitch, he worked on cross word puzzles...and otherwise did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Saturday nite D made me spaghetti with meat sauce and Texas Toast - yummy! Played more cards before watching another movie - "Shakespeare in Love" - always a favorite! We also watched "Chicago" earlier in the day - not what I expected, but loved it nonetheless.
Sunday we had to be out of the cabin at 11, so we got up and packed up and headed out. Had some time to kill before picking up M at camp so we went and parked in the Thriftway parking lot and slept. Shockingly, D's tummy wasn't too happy (sure it has nothing to do with the snack foods we'd been living on all weekend!).
Picked M up at camp and headed home in time for the SuperBowl (GO STEELERS!).
Our weekend up on the mountain made us really discuss getting a "vacation home" someday. BUT - we decided that besides having to choose between the beach and the mountain (hard choice), we'd also have to use it enough to off set the costs of having it. Not to mention the maintenance of it (you would be surprised how many of the homes near this cabin had tarps on them, theoretically as a result of snow damage to sky lights and such). We do have the Trendwest time share-ish thing that we can go anywhere they have a resort and stay for almost free, so it's kinda the best of both worlds. Still - I'd LOVE to have a mountain cabin - I do love my Mount Hood!
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