Now for the length of our life insurance we ended doing 15 or 20 years.  I don’t remember for sure, but we did it long enough to where we thought our house would be paid off and then we can renew it then as we wouldn’t need as much so our price would hopefully come down at that point.  Plus if we can be at a healthy weight at that time the price would drop even more. 

Just a couple things to think about when you start looking at term life insurance.

I sit here watching him play quietly with his K’nex and can’t help but think how different our lives will be starting next Tuesday.  While I’m excited to his him grow up and be going to school full time, I can’t help but be a little sad a the same time.  What hurts the most (besides I know I will miss him dearly) is how he will now be seeing his teacher more during the week than he will me.   No longer will I be his number one person for the week.     I’ll just be that lady that gets him up, makes him breakfast, walks him to the bus stop, meet him when he gets off the bus, makes him a snack and supper, takes him to karate and gets him back in bed.   I guess I should be happy I still get to do these things with him because before you know it he will be doing most of that by himself too.  Why do kids have to grow up so darn fast?

For example my goal for today was to clean the bathroom (scrub tub, wash the laminate floor, clean mirror, toilet.. etc) and it started out good.  Got the sink, toilet and mirror done, but then when I went to start on the tub I took the towels off the rod and thought I could start on some laundry right now.  So off I go to collect all the dirty clothes, towels, etc and I start on my first load.   As I head back to the bathroom the kids tell me they are hungry and I realize it’s getting close to lunch time so I better start on  that.

So I make them lunch and can’t just leave the mess so I start cleaning that mess up when I just keep picking stuff up in there.  Of course my laptop is sitting on the counter in the kitchen so I have to check my emails, well since I’m on I might as well check Facebook & Craigslist.  Then I think I haven’t blogged anything recently so I really get comfy, but I just looked at the clock and I realized that I still haven’t completed the job I originally wanted to do today!

Am I the only one this happens to?  Please tell me that it happens to you too.

So off to the store I went, great thing was I took the longer way so I could hit a few garage sales, then while shopping at the store I took my time and looked at anything and everything (file cabinets, chair mats, leather briefcase.. etc) then afterwards I ended up taking a different way home and remembered that Allendale was having their big boulevard sales so while driving through town I thought why  not hit the library where I found out they were having a book sale!

I ended up finding Kevin quite a few chapter books as that’s the level he is now reading!   I’m just amazed at how good he is reading, I keep wondering will Katie be following his footsteps.  So far she is starting to read Dick & Jane books to me and will be in preschool this year.  So maybe I will have another book reader on my hands.

It was after that I thought I better head home and was probably a good thing too as Paul needed the much needed break like I had earlier.   

So how was your day today?  Did you do anything fun?

This has to be one of my favorite pictures of her.  It was a day some of my aunts, mom & I (of course Kevin too) went shopping to the mall looking for new clothes for my Grandma.  She needed a break and said she would watch Kevin in the hall so I could go in the store and look at kids clothes for him by myself.  I am so thankful I had my camera with me and was able to get this picture of them.

To the prettiest Grandma in the world..  I LOVE and miss you!!

Even though it’s very warm over there my sister had to pack long skirts instead of shorts.  While I LOVE wearing long skirts (that’s the only kind I have in my closet) I never thought the women over there would always be in long skirts, but I guess that’s the way it is over there and with all the bugs I can see why!

The only thing I don’t get though is after looking through my sister’s pictures, how the kids in school could wear the uniforms that they do as they are in long sleeve SWEATERS!   With classrooms so full that kids are just about sitting on top of each other (so you know the rooms have to be hotter with all the body heat) the kids are also wearing sweaters!

Here it’s in the 80′s or 90′s here and I go somewhere in jeans & a t-shirt and I’m croaking, how do people over there be able to concentrate in school wearing pants and sweaters?  Can your body actually get used to the heat like that?

Thankfully I still have my desktop, if I didn’t I don’t know what I would do.  The only bad thing is the desktop is now “the kids computer” so I have to fight them for it.  I really hope the computer shop is able to get the parts they need sooner than later.  I really miss having my laptop and being able to be in the living room on it as now I’m stuck down in the basement.  The only good thing is at least the house is staying cleaner longer.