Four Day Weekend

Jason has a four-day-weekend this weekend which means we get to spend a little more time with him! He took off Friday to use up one of his vacations days that he had for the year, and Monday is the opening of huntin' season here in Michigan. I guess it's also Veteran's Day observed, but the empahsis is always on hunting season around here, which is very different from when we were in the military!

Here's what we've done so far:

Friday was Victoria's parent-teacher conference at school, which meant she didn't have to go to school either. She's doing perfectly fine in school, so all my worrying and nightmares at the beginning of the year were for naught. From the school, we went down to Ohio to see some friends of ours from Deleware. When we lived there, Victoria was good friends with Ben and Abby, twins who are just a few weeks older than she is. They now live just over an hour away! It was amazing to see that all their faces look just the same as when they were one- they are just taller, have more hair, and talk better!

Saturday was Karissa's last day of gymnastics, so she was able to bring her siblings along to participate. Of course Austin couldn't do much, but he enjoyed the action around him. Actually, I had no choice but to bring him as well, since Jason was standing in a crazy long line for us to get H1N1 vaccinations at the community college. He waited for 3 hours until we got there with lunch, then we all waited about an hour together. The kids and I didn't have to wait as long, but we got to wait during the worst part. When the line entered the gym, they squished everyone up in the bleachers and moved us down row, by row, until we got to the floor where the vaccinations were being given. It was worse than being on an airplane! Our knees were in the backs of the people in front of us (with knees in our backs too), we had Austin's carseat balancing on the bench, with all of our sweaters and a pizza box piled on the car seat. Then, of course there was the hole beneath us where we could not drop anything that we wanted to see again. Victoria has a cough, and though she was doing well covering her mouth, it's just hard to not get any coughing or sneezing on anyone when you're breathing down their necks! We survived and even were able to get the flu mist, instead of the shot, much to the relief of the kids.

The rest of the weekend is still to be determined, but I can gaurentee Jason won't be hunting tomorrow, just cracking the books!