Stayation

For my family - this post is similar to the family website post, but does have a few different twists.

The new terminology for staying home and not going somewhere when you would normally go on vacation is "Stayation". (No joke it was on the news last night.) So that's what we're doing this Spring Break. The weather is too yucky to go anywhere really fun (supposed to be cold and rainy most of the week) and the job certainity is too tenuous to outlay much dinero to do anything else. (The kids will get to go down for a couple days to visit Aon in PDX.) The weather report says Wednesday would be a good day to work in the garden so I think that's when they will go down. (heee heee - they don't know about the putting in the garden and helping with yard work part. ... yet.) They will be old pro's because it looks like Monday will be a good day to get the outside stuff done around here. (the grass is getting super tall, the weeds are stating to sprout in the garden, and the goat barn needs to be mucked - just to name a few tasks.)

It won't be all work and no fun...Aon has some entertainment planned for them (OMSI, dog park and/or the zoo). I also have some fun scheduled for them. For example: M has developed an interest over the last couple years in some forms of Japanese Anime' - Her favorite movie is Howl's Moving Castle. (She has been drawing a lot more so I've encouraged it.) Well, the library is having an anime' festival one day this week, so I'm trying to arrange it so that she can go. Also, each kid wants a friend to come over during Spring Break. so I they'll get to do that too. But we're not really going to do much other "fun" stuff - except maybe have some family movie nights or I may rent a play station or wii game for a couple days.

Mainly, my goal is to whip this place into shape before they close the dump to the public (part of the county's cost saving plan). I'm also cutting costs so I'm getting rid of my storage unit which houses Christmas stuff and other miscellaneous stuff that we rarely use...which means we need to clean out the red barn. We've kept it pretty clean and organized so it should only take an hour unless I get crazy and really organize stuff.