A Week in My Life – Monday

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Last week, I read that Nicole over at Arrows Sent Forth was going to participate in the Week in My Life project over at Adventuroo.  I like to read both Arrows Sent Forth and Adventuroo, so I clicked over to read about the project.  At first, I didn’t think that a project where I document our everyday life would be a good fit for this site.    Every once in awhile, I share a little extra peek into our personal lives but it usually all comes back to travel.  Then I remembered that we are heading out of town for the weekend!  I plan to share the various stages of preparation as well as the trip itself.  This site is about family travel after all and that is what we do!

*Be aware: If you keep scrolling you will see a picture of my feet, albeit freshly pedicured feet. If you hate feet, skip that part!  

I am also hoping that having a daily assignment will help me get a little bit of my blogging motivation back.  I have been taking a writing class and keeping up with assignments that I promised to other people.  By the time I am done with all of that, I just don’t have any motivation to come back here and get a post up.  I have been doing well if I get a Photo Friday up.  It isn’t that I don’t have anything to share…we have some fantastic adventures from New Orleans, Myrtle Beach, Disney and other places that I still have to share.  I just can’t get motivated to sit down and put together a post.

This morning, I dropped the kids off at their respective schools and headed to my one year round indulgence-my every 6 week pedicure.  Please excuse the flip flop tan.  It is beginning to fade but I love it…it reminds me how wonderful it is to live in Florida when I am complaining about the ridiculous humidity in October.

After my pedicure, I raced home to squeeze in an hour or two of work while Little S was at preschool.  For some reason, I thought that preschool was going to be a wonderful thing for my work.  I certainly get a lot of work done while she is gone for that three hours a day, but the interruption of driving back and forth seems to throw off my productivity!

I wrote a blog post, answered some questions, cleaned out a little bit of email, sent a few tweets and updated my Facebook fan page.  I also caught up on my blog reader…something I have done in awhile!

After lunch Little S and I complete our pre-travel ritual of cleaning out my minivan.  It was a mess.  It was so messy that I couldn’t even bring myself to document it with a photo.  This is what came out of my car.  And this isn’t even the pile of things we saved!  This is just the trash!

Since the mess is just as much theirs as it is mine, everyone helps clean out the car!

Then it was time to tackle the laundry. All day I washed and dried and washed and dried and washed some more.  Then I folded, folded, and folded!

I have one more load of laundry left to do and then I am going to put this all away and pack for our trip!

This is Big S and Little S being goofy for the camera!

This is Little S and Big S finding out that now they have to put half of that laundry away!

It was a pretty quiet day around here for us and this always makes me happy.  I do have one more thing to note.  Every time my husband goes out of town someone breaks something.  We have had two broken feet (at different times), one broken collar bone, one forehead split open and in need of stitches, and a few other emergency room incidents.  All of these accidents occurred while my husband was out of town.  He is out of town now and gets back Tuesday evening.  So far, I only have a camera lens that I broke this morning. Luckily it is just a kit lens, I have an identical one, and – knock on wood – nobody has broken a bone yet!  This lens is permanently stuck in this position. Sad.

*Quote of the day: “Don’t drink the bathtub water because our bottoms have been in it.” Little S

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