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I need to be done planning things.  Nothing I ever do works out.  Like having three kids 2-3 years apart.  So one of the things I spend time planning worked out like this.  I asked my mom before I booked tickets to PHX if she could watch Andrew Friday.  She said no problem.  But then when I called to confirm when she was back from Ireland she said she was working that day.  :(.  So Plan B...Andrew would go to our neighbor's and mom would be home shortly after the older kids got home from school.  Problem solved.  I wasn't thrilled with the idea but it would work.  Thursday night it was snowing.  I told Lee I thought they would call a snow day on Friday.  He said no way.  I won.  At five in the morning we got a call saying school was closed.  I had called my mom the day before asking if she could take the kids if it was a snow day.  She agreed.  So even though I had spend energy and stress on worrying about the plan it never came to be.  Jake spent the day shoveling his grandmother's driveway.  Andrew and Victoria probably watch way too much too TV and Luke and I got to spend the weekend in 75 degree weather. 

Phoenix was so great.  Just what my soul needed.  Warm weather and a good friend.  Plus people to pay non stop attention to Luke.  We saw tons of new things we had never seen before.  I haven't been to Phoenix since 1997 and there was so much I had never seen there. 

I am really struggling with the kids lately and Lee mentioned how we need to change our focus regarding the kids.  There is just so much and lack of sleep isn't helping.

I am planning on going back to Phoenix in February and then in June I will take all the kids.  I am excited.  June may be super warm but we will be too close for me not to drive the extra distance.  I wanted to go in March but my kids and my friend's kids Spring Breaks don't match and even if they did then her kids are flying to Seattle for two weeks to visit grandparents.  So now I have to plan spring break.  I am thinking a staycation but I think I will really want to go somewhere.  McCall???  Seattle???  Time will tell.

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