LOL! Not for the kids, but for myself!

So, in regards to this tree fiasco, Kris couldn't call in to work at all this week. His team now has four people (he's moving up into an advanced engineering position though, so he'll no longer be on that team), has two people on vacation and one guy (Kris' replacement) who is brand new, and he doesn't want to leave obligations hanging unless it's a life or death emergency.  So, since i can't really take care of the mess myself, I just distracted myself all week from it lol!  We did some geocaching and went to friends' houses, it was nice.  Brothers and sisters from church called to offer help and give encouragement to, which was so wonderful.  Now, tomorrow we have to deal with the mess out there, it's overwhelming.  WIth the storms and possible tornado that came through parts of NH yesterday though, I am grateful that all we are dealing with is a mess and not something worse.  We were actually out geocaching when the storm hit yesterday, so that was extremely scary.  On the ride home there was MAJOR road flooding, I saw some cars so deep in water they were stalled and I'm sure the interior ruined.  I kept seeing people in small cars trying to drive through the flooding, I wasn't so brave (stupid?) and kept changing my route to avoid the flooding.  For the first time I used my four wheel drive on my Jeep though, loved it!  Than I came home to turn on the news to find out there were houses levelled by trees in the state and a state of emergency had already been declared. Oh, I was using Kris' laptop bag while geocaching to carry our stuff, my hiking pack was wet so I didn't want to take it. Turns out the laptop bag isn't waterproof and my cell phone got soaked.  It's working on and off, but I'm leaving the battery out for now until it seems to be completely dry,  I don't want to short circuit anything if it isn't already.  So, if you need to contact me today, email is best!

My glasses prescription still isn't correct. I had to go on Tuesday and the eye doctor said it was too low in my right eye, he said my astigmatism is even worse than he thought lol.  So the right was corrected, but now I can't see out of my left too well.  Mostly, it's depth perception that is off, which is highly annoying!  Hopefully today is the last time it gets adjusted, while they are making my glasses I don't have a back up since my reason for getting new ones was because my last ones lost a lens, so I have to keep the kids busy for an hour without my glasses, which is interesting. Obviously, I can't drive, so I try to stay in the little plaza area and let the kids be my eyes, which I'm sure they love since they get to decide where we eat and what we do!

I think I'm a little addicted to geocaching, which is odd because normally I'm not that much of a goal oriented person, nor am I competitive, but I love doing this!   Basically, a few weeks ago, Kris' parents upgraded their GPS and we recieved their old one.  I had read about geocaching in a hiking book once, didn't really understand it, but went online and read about it.  I was going to wait for Kris before trying it, but decided to go for it on my own.  I also went to the library and took out every book about GPS and geocaching they had, and have been busy reading those over the couple of weeks.  The kids love doing it to, it's a blast!  Now when I want to go for a nature walk or hike, they have something fun to do while we do these things.  I can't wait until the house is cleaned of all the debri and Kris can come out with us, so far he doesn't seem overly excited about the idea of it.  It's amazing how many caches there are, I was trying to think of a place to put one, but every single place I have thought of already has at least one.  Even my favorite hike, Catamount HIll, has three! 

I'm going out with my friend today, so gotta go!  Have a great weekend, and God Bless!

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