Day Off???

Because it was President's Day (Great American's Day) today, Robin and Ryan and I had the day off. Megan had to work. The children came back from Muncie in good moods, although it was a little traumatic. Daddy's car began to overheat at exit 14 north of Indy, so Meg had to meet him to get the kids. Hope he got back to Muncie okay...somehow.

Because today was a holiday, I invited Ryan to have a sleepover in Grandma's room last night. (Robin had already had a turn at that a couple of weeks ago.) Robin decided she wanted in on the deal, so she slept on the floor next to my bed, and Ryan snuggled with me. (Those days are soon to be over. Little boys do not need to be sleeping with Grandma. I was just trying to even the score.)
Robin, unfortunately coughed most of the night...and most of today. No fever...no sore throat...no earache. Just cough.

I kept the kids with me today. They were mostly good, but we were busy! I bribed the children with a reward for cleaning their rooms. Robin dug right in. Ryan decided he wanted "teamwork". In between, we went to meet Megan for lunch and deliver Girl Scout cookies to Meg's co-workers who had ordered them. "Here are the cookies that you ordered ." I'm sure they were happy to see us leave!

When we got back, we worked some more on the rooms. I took the kids to Wal-Mart to pick up a few things...and their rewards for working on their rooms and being good. Then home to get supper together. I was not very happy about the amount of candy that the children were consuming, thanks to Valentine's Day. (I was unaware of most of it.) Which leads me to this:

We start the year with Valentine candy...then progress to Easter candy, then Halloween candy and Christmas candy. We made Christmas cookies and Valentine cookies...and now it's Girl Scout cookie time! Neither of the children ate well today (surprise, surprise) so I declared at supper time that if they weren't interested in eating supper, the candy would ALL be confiscated. (Both had some stashed in their rooms!) We need to eat better around here. 'Tis a battle!

Meg has a course assignment due tomorrow night that wasn't posted as of 5:00 this evening. That is just totally not right! She is pretty much done in by the fact that she has had zero personal time. (I haven't either, actually, but at least I'm not under the constant deadlines of school assignments.)

Meg has to put in for her vacation time much in advance of need. For the first time in my life, my "vacation time" after the school year is over, will be open. Part of me wants everyone to leave me alone for a little bit in order to ease into the retirement deal...but I am aware that the rest of the world just keeps on spinning. She is challenging me to help detail vacation trips. All I can think of is "How can we afford it?" Maybe this is good for me. Maybe it is irresponsible. As usual, I respond...we'll see!