Fun Week Ahead Visitors And Being A Camp Bus

Well it is another Monday and it looks like a fun busy week ahead. Today the kids and I are doing a house cleaning since we found out last night that my husbands Grandparents are coming for a visit tomorrow. They live about three hours north of us and always get to our house between seven and eight in the morning. Then they tend to leave to head home between noon and two in the afternoon, so it usually is not that long a visit but always nice to have them. My husband is a little sad because he will be at work when they visit this time. I was told that they have at least six big boxes of fabric and stuff for me. Can't wait to see what they bring. Grandpa asked if I had a spair room to put all the stuff in yesterday when he called. Should be fun to go through it and sorting it out.

On Wednesday we have friends coming out to visit for a while. The kids get to run around and play while I get to visit with the mom. Don't know how long that will end up being but they are welcome to stay as long as they want.

Thursday morning we will be up early to get to the church building we go to. The girls between the age of twelve and eighteen are going camping and I get to drive a group of them. I knew that I would be asked to drive for things when we got our van. It is almost expected since my van holds fifteen poeple, specially when I have at least one kid in the group needing driven places. Should be fun though a van full of kids almost all of them girls. I just have to pick them up at the church and drop them off at camp on Thursday morning. Saturday evening I have to get them from camp back to the church building. My oldest is one of the girls going so everyone is excited. She is excited about going camping with friends and getting away from the family. The other kids seem to be excited about her being out of the house for a few days too. Honestly I think my husband is a little happy about it too. The two of them have been butting heads a lot lately, which is somewhat of a normal thing around here. But it has been a little more so the past two weeks.

Friday looks like a down day so far but that can change quickly. I might see what I can do to put up our family reading tree. What it is, is a tree that grows as everyone finishes books they are reading. For every book that is completed a leaf is put on the tree with the name of the book, author and who read the book. For every set number of books that you add to the tree you earn a special thing to put in the tree, like a bird nest or squiral. Everyone in the family gets to add leaves for the books they read. So far we are planning to do it for the summer only but depending on how well it is going it might keep going. It just depends on how fast it grows.