End of Vacation!!

Officially, it is the end of vacation for me...I start work on Monday and Jillian goes back to preschool on Monday also. Lucky for Elizabeth to still have an extra day!!!

After the gym on New Year's Day, we tackled getting down all the Christmas decorations and packing them away. I am happy to report that all was done yesterday with the exception of one piece of pine garland in my family room which was removed this morning.

I am not sure if anyone noticed on TV, online, or the newspaper, but Brighthouse along with Time Warner stations were going to blackout at midnight on New Year's Nick., Noggin, MTV's, VHI's and other stations due to money, of course. While watching the Noggin Wed. afternoon, Elizabeth was concerned. I told her that we had Verizon now not Brighthouse and we had nothing to worry about yet. I said yet because a lot of times, things like this spill over to other companies. In any case, she was upset and kept asking me why, I told her $$$, and she said that this was not fair to all the children that were going to lose their TV stations. She went on and on at various points of the day....I thought it was cute and sweet how she showed her compassion for others and how unfair things can be and hurt others. Come Thursday when the contract was agreed upon, she was so happy...Isn't that sweet!! That's my Elizabeth, extremely in-tune with the world around her and caring of others...

So today I tried to return some workout pants I bought at Walmart but the return line was ridiculously long. I guess so many people still had off. I figured I'll either get up extra early or go on Tuesday when Elizabeth is back in school.

Elizabeth is at a sleepover by her girlfriends' house. We took Jillian to Applebee's for some one-on-one time with her and then played Wii. I taped her playing Wii...she's so cute how excited she gets and how she jumps around. I'll have to post it another time....

I had a very nice vacation! I am ready to go back to the day-t0-day routine, but will miss the girl's. We had a busy week, filled with playing, playdates and just lots of fun! But in reality, they are off again in 2 or 3 week's for MLK's BD...