My three younger girls and I had spring break this past week. (My oldest had hers last week.)

What we accomplished:

My third girl took her learner's driving permit and passed. We've been terrorizing a local county park's drives and parking lots almost daily, and she drove back to our house (on the roads!) yesterday for the first time. You'd think by my third, I'd be more sensitized to this new driver process - ha!

My youngest had two sleepovers at our house this week. Last night's involved some crafting. I had a coupon for Michael's, and we bought three wooden boxes for painting and a $3 pack of a bunch of embroidery yarn. This morning my third is teaching the youngest and her friend the fine art of braiding those tiny yarn bracelets.

My second girl gets back late tonight from her spring break trip with a friend's family to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. She earned her ticket by doing some work for the family and by working at her three jobs of nannying for a family, as an aide at the school early childhood daycare, and a as lifeguard at the school's pool. She is a very lucky and hard-working girl!

I did my obligatory start on my 'spring' cleaning. I cleared and cleaned out cabinets, cupboards and closets. I was a little amazed by the lack of things to get rid of...could it be that we may be equalizing the contents of our house???

My youngest did have a bag of outgrown clothes and shoes, as she is still growing. It seems that I've been purging for so many years that I forgot it doesn't have to be always big purges!

In full disclosure, we have a garage. It's ancient, and the doors are too short for any of our vehicles to be parked inside, but yet it is stuffed. I have a bike, a handful of garden tools, and a 3'x5' chest freezer. No more said, lest I say something disparaging:-) A little warmer weather and less mud will allow me to soon remedy this, and yes, I know, I'm enabling the offending garage users, but it really bugs ME the most!

The girls and I walked around exploring and eating ice cream in a quaint little nearby town. Another day we met Daddy for lunch. We visited a gorgeous brand new (green!)library, and we loaded ourselves down with tons of books and DVDs, which we interspersed reading and watching throughout the week. We raked the front yard (lost its snow much earlier than elsewhere in the yard) and uncovered the rhubarb that's poking it's way out to the sun. Took long walks and bike rides. Tried out new recipes - some good, some not so much. Figured out our June vacation - reserved a camping spot in CO! Not a lot this week, but good...

As I said above, we have been gorging on movies - the 2nd Night at the Museum, Stranger than Fiction, Doubt, Time Traveler's Wife, New Moon, Stick It (some of these were with the girls, some not.) I still have Confessions of a Shopaholic, Constant Gardener, August Rush, Bottle Shock, The Savages....I may not get to all of them, but I can renew or reorder, and they are free when returned on time! And the books are too numerous to list...we are such bookworms and nerds at our house!!

Enjoy your Saturday..Take care!!