Now where was I?

It's been a whirlwind of a week getting back into the groove of real life again. For some reason my body rejects "normalcy" for about a week after a vacation. Then after the piles & piles & endless to-do lists can't hold anymore, I give in and get with it. However, we are getting ready for our semi-annual consignment sale (CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO) this week and my to-do lists keep getting longer. I've accepted the fact that my house is not going to be clean or straightened for the next month, so I just have to get over it. As long as I manage to have clean clothes, food to eat & dishes to eat them on, we should be good.

Anyway, I have to brag on my kiddos for just a moment. I must say that Kensley is a great shopper. Really, all of my kids have been that way. However, the boys are growing out of it the older they get. As long as it's not a marathon shopping trip, they usually don't complain. Tuesday I had to make a really long Wal-Mart run with Kensley. She was fabulous! She's very laid-back, doesn't complain or whine or fuss about how much longer. (**Sidenote: my only complaint of her is that she has to use the bathroom in every store we go into. Never. Fails. Ever.) Today after Kensley and I had all day shopping trip to Gastonia, we picked up the boys from school and headed down to Gaffney in search of tennis shoes. The kids were all great! Granted, we were looking for something for them, so I'm sure that helped, but after 3 hours of shopping, most kids would be getting close to a meltdown.

I am very thankful to have great kids. But today just made me even more thankful how well behaved they were. Don't get me wrong, we have plenty of meltdowns, fusses, fights, etc. But for today, I just wanted to say thank you Lord for some really great kids!

All good things must come to an end

Well, we are home. It's bittersweet... sort of. On one hand I was sad to leave the most "magical place on earth" but on the other hand I was ready to get home and see my 3 precious children. We had a wonderful week at Disney and great, great, great quality time together which was much needed and appreciated (thanks Mom & Dad & Wanda!!!). Despite the frigid weather and lack of appropriate clothing, it was still a nice trip. On our last day (Friday) it rained all day and was even colder. But we weathered the elements and made a trip back to Downtown Disney for a movie. That's the second movie we saw by the way. My plans for our last day was to lay on a hammock & read a book in the sun or even maybe taking a nap but mother nature had other intentions for us. Which were fine. And much drier and warmer. It even snowed in north FL on Friday. Crazy!

This was our transportation to & from the airport. Rather nice.

Our trip home on Saturday was fine. The weather was clear & our flight ended up being pretty good. We had a few clouds during the flight but at least this time we got to see ground. Most of it was snow covered the entire flight. Corby said he saw the coastline for the majority of the trip, but I had very limited viewing because I was sitting at the wing. (We were split on the ride home because of our ticket arrangements and dividend mileage restrictions, but it was fine).
I even took a few pictures (imagine that) when I could zoom through the clouds. They are periodically throughout the flight. Who knows where we were, but I would imagine some are Fl, GA, SC & the last couple are when we got into Charlotte.







The road in the bottom left corner of this pic is either I-85 or 485... couldn't tell for sure.

So, there is a play by play of our trip. Whether you liked it or not. I mainly did it for the kids so they would be able to see what all we were doing while we were away.

One last picture...

This was our Valentine's Day supper tonight. The boys cooked breakfast for the girls and we had a candlelight dinner at the table. It was nice & very yummy!