In less than two days this will be me jet setting around the world :)   The packing has begun, and dh and the boys will be dropping me off at the airport Tuesday morning.  I believe their agenda after dropping me off includes taking Merry to kindy and then going bowling.  Frodo has never been before and thinks it looks 'cool'... fun maybe, but cool is not something bowling has ever really qualified as lol.  I also imagine there will be plenty of time hangin out in pj's and watching cartoons while I'm away.

DH requested a 'plan' for schoolwork while I'm away so I typed up a brief list of things he can do with the kids.  I'm gone for two weeks, but the second week of that DH is back to work and the whole crew is staying with his parents so mother in law can take care of the boys.   She'll have them busy as bee's the whole time, so I'm really only doing about a weeks worth of  'work' for him.   Mostly it's things like headsprout, math games & a couple of Frodo's History Odyssey reading/activities.   Pretty laid back stuff really.   Frodo also is interested in cursive writing, completely out of the blue, so I've downloaded the States' preferred font for him to test drive.  I think it's ugly so we'll probably ditch it though ;)  I don't know how much DH will get done with them.. but I do know it's much harder to plan out what I do for someone who has no idea WHAT I do, much harder than it is to plan for me.  

If you made it through that last sentence and your eyes aren't tied in knots, congratulations lol.   I'll be back around August 15th, see you then!

Sometime during the night, as he always does, little Merry came toddling down the hall and hauled himself up into our bed.  This actually happened twice, but the first time he was redeposited in his own bed, after he decided that NOBODY was allowed blankets on, and that he had to sleep parallel to the headboard :S  

The second time he realized he had to at least be reasonable if he wanted to stay ;)  Dh gets out of bed at 430am, leaving just me & Merry for a queen sized bed... somehow I still end up with no bed or blankets.  Go figure.   When Merry wakes up we usually lay in bed and cuddle and he sings to me and asks 30times 'what doin mummy?' as I try not not be awake, and fail miserably lol.  (Which is followed by 'are you ok mummy??' to which I must reply lest I scare the poor kid!)   This morning I was serenaded by the dude singing some Josh Groban and met with THIS sight ..

 ZOMG! lol  This child is a combat sleeper (I coined that phrase with Sam, who thrashes around in bed to the point that we hear him banging into the walls all the way down the hall!) and I'm fairly sure that when we aren't in the room, he stands on his head to sleep.   Or he steps out into a hurricane .. or something LOL.

This is totally the reason I grew my hair out longer... because when it's short, I look precisely like that when I wake up.  Skeery.

Well I wondered why the few commenters that post on my little blog have been so quiet despite relatively regular posting!  A friend has reported that there is an issue with the comments feature on my blog.. I thought it was my posh new template, but I switched to a boring old standard one and it was still a no go :(   I'm attempting to work it out though.. don't go away!