Spring Break 2017

Here's a short blog post about our spring break.  We didn't do a whole lot this year because things were just settling down for us in our new house.


We started out Spring Break with a sleepover.  Girls at my house and the boys at Heather's. 

These girls partied hard!  We realized that having a sleepover in such a small house is hard on Maynard when he has to work the next day.  We finally had to make them go to bed so he could rest.  They had a great time.  Of course, they wanted pancakes for breakfast the next morning.  We met up around 1 to get our kids back, much to all their dismay.  Why do sleepovers have to come to an end?

Amelia had been asking for my sister Melissa to come visit so she agreed to come and stay a few days.  Amelia was excited for Melissa to see her new room.


We didn't do a whole lot, but mainly shop for Easter outfits.  You can imagine my kid's joy about that.  Amelia didn't mind shopping as long as we were shopping for her.  My boys just hate shopping period.  It also didn't help that Josiah caught some kind of virus that week.  He was constantly running to the bathroom so that kind of limited us doing much anyway.  We were all thankful to have 2 bathrooms in the house because no one wanted to use the same bathroom he was using.  Ha Ha


We went to Richmond one day to shop and had a successful trip finding all the kids an outfit.  We had a yummy lunch at Olive Garden.


I did a lot of cooking that week.  Which really wasn't any different than any other week, but we ate good, including deserts.  We also ate out some too.  Not a whole lot.


Since the kids complained about shopping so much, Melissa and I took Titus and Amelia skating.  Josiah was too germy and we left him home.  He wasn't happy, but he got to ride the lawn mower, so that made Titus jealous when he got back home.

Melissa ended up staying through Sunday and went to church with us.  It was actually sad when it was time for her to leave.  I was glad she came and helped us get our Easter outfits together.  She won't lie to you.  She will tell you exactly what she thinks if you ask her for her opinion on something.  She even talked me into buying a $25 pair of shoes that was clearly not made for someone like me.  My kids had to help put them on me Easter morning and made sure everyone at church knew that.  I have since returned them back to the store. Ha Ha


It was nice to have a week off of school and just let life slow down a bit.  We had activities planned at school the next week so the kids look forward to going back.