Virginia bound

Eeek...it's been awhile. It's also been a whirlwind month or so. Work has been busy, I've had my Mom in the hospital....and then throw in our regular hectic life and well, you can imagine. There's been a certain eight NINE year old's birthday sleepover, another birthday party with family, Halloween and so on. However, there's no time for all that stuff now (although I WILL eventually get the blog caught up with pictures!), because tomorrow morning I fly out for Virginia!

Since I've been so busy trying to wrap up every possible loose end for the past week, such as:

• making sure bills are paid
• picking up prescriptions
• organizing the kids' school stuff for the coming week
• leaving multiple obsessive notes for my husband about pretty much everything
• returning almost-overdue library books
• schooling myself on the new rules of airline travel (it's been TEN years!)
• trying to squeeze in a haircut (NOT gonna happen)
• tracking down ipods, chargers, etc. (am I the only one that has a million of these piled sky high?)
• attempting to print out boarding passes and itineraries, only to discover the printer is out of ink
• worrying about how my Mom will do for the week
• getting audited at work (GREAT timing)
• putting on a taco feed for my co-workers
• not letting myself slack off at the gym

Oh, I could keep going...but I always feel like I'm whining so I won't.

My point is, I've been so busy going, going, going that I haven't had the time to think about the fact that I will be away from my family for 5 days. This is big. The kids spent a week with my Dad at the cabin last summer, but that was different since Paco and I were home together. This time....I'll be on my own without my "people" as I like to call them. Of course, I will be with some of my other favorite people....Kelly and my brand-spanking new brother in law, Brian! Yep, my sis is an old married gal now. Also, my "Mom" Sandy is meeting me there too, so it will be quite a fun week!

A few things on our agenda:

• helping Kelly out in her new yoga studio, Bend
• going with Kelly to a Bikram yoga class (think: yoga in a room heated to 105 degrees)
• hopefully a day trip to Washington, D.C!! WOOT!
• plenty of time to banter with Brian, my FAVORITE brother, and drink wine with my "mom" and sis.

I am so thankful for my wonderful husband who surprised me with this trip!!