I am so sad....

I only have four more days left of my summer vacation. I return to work on Friday, August 1. We have a teacher work day on Friday and then start up with kids on Monday. I am so sad. I am more sad because I still hate everyone that I work with and I so don't want to go back to work.

Kenneth and I were talking and mused about taking the kids out of school and traveling around homeschooling the kids in our camper for the next year and selling my hairbows in craft shows to make money (and on line of course!) Do you know how many hairbows I would have to sell to make any money??? We would have to form a good ole "sears sweatshop" kicking out hairbows by the hundreds!!! It is fun to muse though.....

Okay, so back to reality. I want to really work on my Disney album and finish that up before I go back to school and I know the kids will want to spend a bunch of time at the pool so we will be spending the next four days here at the house and down at the pool with that clock ticking ever so much faster now....

I do have to say that I have really enjoyed having our camper down at Grey's Point Campground. The kids love it and we really like getting away every weekend again. It has been a long three years since we piled in the car on Fridays and headed down to the river for the weekend. We will continue to go through the fall and I am looking forward to the quiet fall weekends down there. I hope that Nicholas will want to do some fishing in the fall and that the girls will enjoy swimming in the warm river water once the jellyfish move out of there.

They have asked me (Grey's Point) to do some crafts with the kids. Last weekend I did notecards with them and will do that again this coming weekend and then in two weeks I will be painting with the kids.

What's in a name???

Mine is Whitney:

What Whitney Means

You are very charming... dangerously so. You have the potential to break a lot of hearts. You know how what you want, how to get it, and that you will get it. You have the power to rule the world. Let's hope you're a benevolent dictator! You are truly an original person. You have amazing ideas, and the power to carry them out. Success comes rather easily for you... especially in business and academia. Some people find you to be selfish and a bit overbearing. You're a strong person. You tend to be pretty tightly wound. It's easy to get you excited... which can be a good or bad thing. You have a lot of enthusiasm, but it fades rather quickly. You don't stick with any one thing for very long. You have the drive to accomplish a lot in a short amount of time. Your biggest problem is making sure you finish the projects you start. You are a seeker. You often find yourself restless - and you have a lot of questions about life. You tend to travel often, to fairly random locations. You're most comfortable when you're far away from home. You are quite passionate and easily tempted. Your impulses sometimes get you into trouble. You are very intuitive and wise. You understand the world better than most people. You also have a very active imagination. You often get carried away with your thoughts. You are prone to a little paranoia and jealousy. You sometimes go overboard in interpreting signals. You are friendly, charming, and warm. You get along with almost everyone. You work hard not to rock the boat. Your easy going attitude brings people together. At times, you can be a little flaky and irresponsible. But for the important things, you pull it together. You are a free spirit, and you resent anyone who tries to fence you in. You are unpredictable, adventurous, and always a little surprising. You may miss out by not settling down, but you're too busy having fun to care.

What's" Your Name's Hidden Meaning?

The Zucchini is gone!!!

The other night we stayed up until 2pm making bread and butter pickles. It was a process but they taste pretty good and you can't even tell it is zucchini and not cucumbers.

So the zucchini is officially gone. Every single last bit of it.

I made some chocolate zucchini bread last week and it was wonderful. We are still eating on the second loaf this week. The kids love it, mainly because they have no clue it has zucchini in it. Well, Caroline knows but she is keeping the secret. Everytime we cut a piece she gives me this eye saying, "I know what is in it, mom" without saying it outloud. I am really surprised that she is keeping the secret! But so far so good.

We are off to the river for the rest of the week. It is in our attempt to cure the kids of their lice that they acquired when we went to see Wall-e in the movie theater. Their heads were full of it and I didn't notice until a full two weeks after the movies that they had it. This has been a nightmare here and I don't think I will ever recover from the amount of laundry I am doing daily to keep up with disinfecting the sheets, blankets, towels, etc. I hope we never get it again. So apparently they don't live more than 24 hours off the host so in our attempt to rid the kids of it we are moving from house to trailer in 48 hour increments. We were in the house here first for 48 hours, then the trailer at the river for 2 days and then back here for 2 days and now we are heading back to the river and will just stay there until Sunday.

Jenn, I don't think you know but mom does. The kids when they get to the river, run to the camp store and get the schedule of events. They have something going on almost every hour all day long. From the biggest splash contest at the pool, to waterslide races, to watermelon seed spitting contests (which Kenneth is now the reining champion for the year in the adult category), to paddleboat fun, to kids arts and crafts to movie night to hayrides, to train rides, oh the list goes on.....and on.....and on. So they get the schedule of the events for the week or weekend and sit down and pour over it and schedule their weekend. Last weekend they didn't have time to go see George or have lunch at Mom's or take a boatride with Bob. Nope they had too much to do. Which is fine because I don't hear, "I'm bored mom" and now that we moved campsites we are closer to the pavillion where this all takes place!

Okay, off to finish laundry and get out of here!!!

New Etsy Shop

The craft show went well. I made $100 and I have a bunch of cards that I haven't sold yet. I opened an Etsy shop to sell the cards and my hair bows. Go check it out!!! I will give a family and friends discount!! It is Whitney's Cards & Gifts.

The zucchini is still overwhelming but I can only stink up the house for a little while making relish before I can't stand the smell anymore. I would never be able to work in a pickle factory. I am also making copious amounts of zucchini bread and I just found out about a zucchini cake that takes 4 cups of zucchini. We are having zucchini for dinner every night too. Too bad it doesn't freeze well.

Oh boy was it a GOOD dinner!!!

Yeah we had dinner...

and drinks... Well... you figure out the rest. Look at that margarita!

It was HUGE!!!! And this was our second round and we had no business having a second round cause our food didn't come with the first round and well...it was huge!!! We all drank from it and.........

Did I tell you...

that I ran into Jennifer Warren the other day. Yeah, she acted like nothing happened. It was a the movie theater when we went to see Wall-e (yeah, don't go it isn't worth it) So we were coming out of the theater and I said, hey I have to pee so we went to the first potty and there was a line and then we moved across the theater to the other one and there we saw her. No not in the bathroom but in line to get into the movie theater and we saw her and she acted like she was my best friend and introduced me to her hubby and the three kids she was bringing. None of them were hers but I was introduced to Ethan the autistic child and her paster's two daughters. She is such a two-faced bitch. Oh, there I said it. Well, that is the way it is. Oh well. I am not sure I will get over this.