We were planning on having a nice, relaxing weekend. The plan was to get a few things accomplished (car inspected, prescriptions picked up, house cleaned) and to have some fun by having a dinner and game night with Roni and Jim and then enjoying church on Sunday. And just as everything else in life.....NOTHING went as planned. We got up Saturday morning (early, of course..because on the one day we CAN sleep in, the kids always get up before 8. when I have to get up at 6-they sleep 'til 9) and lounged around. Read some books, drank some coffee. All in all, a really nice morning. Jeff took off to Middlebury to get the van inspected and to get a haircut. I expected him to be gone for a couple of hours at least. So when he showed back up a little less than an hour later, I knew that something was up. Turns out, our van couldn't pass inspection because it needed new tires. We were both kind of frustrated and upset....all our extra money has been going to paying off debt and we haven't really been building up any substantial savings. Our broken plumbing/furnace wiped out the savings that we did have several months ago. So there was a lot of scrambling trying to figure out how to pay for the nearly $1000 cost. As always, God provides for us. Sears was having a discount, they had the tires in stock, and we were able to put the cost on our Sears card with deferred interest (which we will be able to completely pay for before the interest kicks in) So, after all of that was figured out, we headed out to Roni and Jims for dinner and planned to head to Sears after church on Sunday to get everything taken care of. We had a terrific time at my sister's house...she made us a delicious seafood dinner and appetizers and fed us dessert! We played Cranium and had so much fun!
We went to church this morning and as always, enjoyed the service. I love our church family and friends and it's such a wonderful place to be. Right after that, we headed to Rutland. We ate lunch at Taco Bell and then headed to the mall. We dropped the van off and turns out, there were even more discounts than they offered us on the phone yesterday, so we were completely thrilled. Mom and dad had decided to go to Rutland and we met them in the mall as well. Mom and the kids played in the arcade and Jeff got his hair cut. We got a few things that we needed from Kmart and then we stopped off at the grocery store and the pharmacy on the way home. So now we are home and I am getting ready to fix some dinner, but my house is still a mess and the laundry has just been started!
So, the only relaxing that I got done was early yesterday morning...I am hoping that after we eat dinner I can get everyone involved in cleaning up really quickly. That way, I can get in a couple more hours of relaxing after I put the kids to bed.
We have already made plans to NOT go anywhere next weekend except for church. Since our weekends rarely turn out as planned, I'm not getting my hopes up! Regardless of what happens, I always love spending time with Jeff and the kids, even if we are running around the mall and everything is crazy. We always have fun together and I am very thankful for that. I hope you have fun with your family this week!
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