Whew! Its over! Sort of.

It was a very long and busy weekend. It all started on Friday when I had to take the kids for a quick eye appointment. Yea right! The did a basic vision test, dilated their eyes, did another more in depth test, dilated their eyes even further and had yet ONE MORE test. Oh, and did I mention they were running behind so it was almost an hour late before they got us in? In the end both kids needed glasses. Will is far sighted (which we were pretty he needed glasses) and has an astigmatism. Sierra.....just like me, always has to be difficult! lol She is far-sighted in one eye, and also has a lazy eye on that side (the left) and she is near sighted in the right. That is why we didn't really know she had problems. The doctor said she probably trained herself at a very early age to use one eye for far away things and the other for up close things and didn't even realize she was only using one eye at a time. CRAZY, right?!? We've ordered their glasses and they should be here late this week or early next week.

On Saturday....what happened Saturday? Oh! Saturday we went for our monthly shopping trip. Yes, I only do grocery shopping once a month. I plan out the menus the best I can and make a list of what I need for those meals. I don't decide in advance which meals to cook which days. Just make sure to have 30 or so breakfast items for Matt and I (the kids only eat breakfast at home on the weekends, so a couple boxes of cereal get us through the month), 30 lunches, and then 35 or so dinners (so that I have extra stuff for church dinners and in case we have unexpected company). I hate taking these trips on the weekends for two reasons......there are more people in the stores then, and I have two kids begging for extras then. It was also the first part of the month, which mean even more people out. It was so crowded and I got REALLY stressed out, but I survived. Shopping for a month worth of food takes most of the day too.

After we got home and got everything put away I gave the kids a quick, but late lunch and then we took them to my in-laws house. They wanted to keep them overnight, and it gave Matt and I a chance to have a "date night". We grilled steaks, has salad, shrimp and twice baked potatoes for dinner. I also splurged and had cream cheese danishes and vanilla ice cream for dessert. It was so yummy. To finish out the evening, we watched Nights in Rodanthe.

Sunday was church and snow. WHAT?!?! Are you kidding me? Still snowing? This is getting insane! I am so ready for spring. We spent most of the day trying to stay warm. We are ready enough for spring that we spent all day yesterday spring cleaning. We went through the kids closets and got TONS of stuff that was too small to sell in our yard sale this summer, and now we are going through the stuff that fits ans deciding what to keep and what to get rid of.

Today I am doing just regular weekly cleaning. Sweeping and mopping all the floors and finishing up the last load or two of laundry. Tomorrow I will work on sorting my clothing and Thursday we will work on DHs clothes, and start sorting boxes that we have in the closets. It's seriously time to declutter!