VACATION TIME!!!

YIPPEE!  While I count the various dramas the children are involved as school activities, and we have several more practices, CHRISTmas vacation is here! YEA!

No more pencils,

No more books,

No more students'

Dirty looks

Can you tell I'm as excited about vacation as the kids are? They aren't as bad as the poem let's on--they really are blessings.

Hubby had some dental surgery today but is doing well. However, he can't have carbonated beverages for three whole days!  To ease his pain, I stopped at Lee's on the way home and bought two gallons of their tea--his favorite. And a pain prescription.  I think the "NO DIET MOUNTAIN DEW" ban will hurt him more!  Here's hoping he won't want any in three days!  He's curled up, alternately snoozing or watching Andy Griffith.

We had to get up REALLY early to get hubby to work. We took him, so that we'd only be using gas in one vehicle today. So, we dropped him off, picked him up, and chauffered him to the oral surgeon.  Actually he drove us with him to work. We got a taste of traffic in a larger city. Once Hubby revved the car up as he zoomed past a slow car on the interstate. Thelma Lou gleefully shouted, "ZOOM! Daddy's a hot-rodder!"

ANYHOO------

We are going to try to get a bunch of baking done, finish the Christmas cards [oh, my,  that's a biggie], and get some chores done.

THE WARDEN

Our new chore schedule is working like a dream. For me. I now have unloaded  begun systematically training the children to take over certain tasks. WHAT A RELIEF! I just hate cleaning up after supper and have done poorly at it. Usually because I also had nineteen other things to do. But the kids have taken over that job and others. It's a double blessing. They clean up the mess, and don't make as big of one in the first-place---since they know who gets to clean it up!

They just finished watching the Andy Griffith episode with their Dad that featured Aunt Bea as the "warden" for a day for prisoner Otis. As part of his rehabilitation, she made him scrub floors, chop wood, wash dishes, vacuum, and clean his room.They howled laughing, "THAT'S MOM!!!!!!"