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Trip away

The last time Lee and I had a weekend away just the two of us was four or five years ago.  My parents use to watch the kids once or twice a year.  But then my dad got sick and died and we had two more kids and it was too much for my mom.  It was a good trip although We did run 13.1 miles way too early Saturday morning.  .  We laughed I cried we discussed money, we ate out, we shopped we saw some family and then we came home.  We were gone just over 48 hours.  We are planning our 20 year anniversary trip.  We are planning for 7 to 10 days and my guess is that we will likely hire somebody to come stay with the kids. None of the kids were ran over which is a huge improvement over the last time I went to SLC to run.  Hotel was nice and catered to the runners.  It was nice to see Lee's aunt and cousins.  I always forget how loud they are and how they all talk over each other.  There were lots of kids there. It was a good meal and good company and I slept on a water bed for the first

It could have been worse

Last night for some reason I could not sleep.  It was nearly four before I finally fell asleep.  I had been asked although I never committed to go help at the school at nine.  Lucky for me the boys slept until almost 9.  Then we went to the school to drop off some paper and then went to Target with the boys to get diapers and some other stuff the kids needed.  Then we went home and it was a tough day.  I felt like I was moving in slow motion.  But I got Luke to sleep and had Andrew "resting" so I went out to get the mail.  I had six collection notices from the hospital.  Three were different account numbers although they were the same exact bill.  An hour later after talking to two different people at collections and one person at the hospital who gave me a totally different answer then I got a few months ago.  I still haven't gotten any where.  I called Lee at work crying.  Then I make it too work (late) and get a message from our babysitter saying she had found a part t