Last day of winter break

For me the new year really starts when the kids go back to school. This year they had a full 2 weeks off of school. It was such a nice break. We stayed up really late, slept in, ate whenever we felt like it and whatever we wanted, watched movies and did very little cleaning. The house is a disaster and will probably take me a good week to get it back in order. But I think that sometimes that is good. Yeah, the mess is getting to me a little, but it will get picked up. But instead we all really just did what we want to do. I spent a lot of time hanging out on my computer doing stupid stuff. Jason researched cars online and went and looked at some. The kids all played video games, Rockband 2, Legos, watched way too much TV and played nonstop with friends. We ate a lot of McD’s and Subway and junk.

Now, obviously, we can’t live this life always, but I think that is what makes it so nice. We are not all slackers and ordinarily are more on top of things, but letting it all go for 2 weeks to just relax and hang out was fun. In some ways I’m sorry that it’s over, but it will be nice to get back to some routine. I wasn’t even sure what day it was most days or what time.

So, tomorrow, I will somehow muster the energy to get all the kids up early and off to school and then begin my week long journey to get my house and life back in order. I think making this a yearly tradition would be good. A great way to end the year.

How did you spend your winter break?