I survived!

Well, my two week vacation is over---if you could call it a vacation.  I was super busy.  Several trips to the chriopractor and Wal-mart kept me busy.  We had a full week off before Christmas.  That was nice.  We've never had that much time off before the holiday.  I was able to clean the house, wrap presents, and do some cooking.  We did not go home for Christmas.  We simply just did not have the time and engergy for it this year.  I fixed us a nice Christmas dinner (most of which was prepared on Christmas Eve day).  The girls were up by about 6:15 and everything was opened by about 7:00!

Christmas Eve and Christmas day it sleeted and snowed.  The wind blew so most of the snow just ended up in snow drifts.  Santa was prepared though; he equipped us with new sleds.  He must have known it was coming!  It was way too cold to take the girls out for a few days though.  Saturday night our sitter came over and kept the girls for us while we went out to dinner and a movie.  That was a first in quite a while!  Sunday afternoon we took the girls out sledding for a short while.  They really enjoyed that, but it was still too cold.

Monday, Joe's parents and daughter came up for a very short visit.  The girls were glad to see them.  Joe was at work, however.  They managed to catch him at work while he was loading the truck to go to Tulsa for his second run.  Tuesday was a trip to town.  The girls went to daycare for a few hours.  I went to the chiropractor again, did some other errands, and met Leanne for lunch.  We were both in need of a sanity break!  Wednesday afternoon the sitter kept the girls while I went on the truck with Joe to Tulsa.  I enjoyed spending a little bit of time with him.  He's been working so much lately that we've seen very little of him.

New Year's Eve and New Year's Day was spent in Kansas City.  We took the girls to the Great Wolf Lodge and water park.  We had such a good time.  It was nice to get to spend some family time together.  The girls had such fun at the water park.  The park was inside the lodge.  They had several pools, slides, and play areas.  We swam, had dinner, played at the arcade, listened to an entertainer sing, and watched some dancers that evening.  We did not make it to the stroke of midnight however!  On New Year's Day we went to Nebraska Furniture Mart and found a new mattress!  We did not get to bring it home with us, however.  They had it order it.  So, we are expecting it to be delivered on the 19th.  We just got a bed frame for it.  We are going to try to get new bedroom furninture-----if and when we get a new house.

It snowed again on Saturday evening.  Saturday the therma-coupler went out on our heating stove.  Wouldn't you know it!  Seems like we have to replace that thing two or three times a season.  And we did not have a spare one on hand, which we usually do.  So Joe had to go to Pittsburg on Sunday morning and see he could get another one.  The roads were pretty bad, so we did not even try to make it to church.  He got home and got it fixed with no problem, thankfully.  Sunday was a pretty lazy day.  And it was back to work on Monday. When is spring break?  :o)