Last weekend before we travel!

How we spent our last weekend as a family of 6:

Saturday-

     

• Breakfast at Cracker Barrel
• Trip to local waterfall to hike to the falls and play in the water
• Fun game of “seek and destroy” with ticks
• One game of Blokus
• One game of Cranium Family Fun
•  Swimming at the Rec Center Pool
•  Family trip to Sam’s Club to buy TONS of food for while we are gone
• Re-organize pantry to accommodate all the food purchased
• Pre-make coffee for Sunday morning, tuck kids in, watch some news, and go to bed.

Sunday-

•          Wake up
•          Coffee
•          Get ready for church
•          Go to church
•          Cry through most of worship
•          Get prayed for by the congregation
•          (Via our favorite pastor who decided to ask God to give us PATIENCE. Seriously.)
•          Lunch at cheap local Mexican place that we love
•          Trip to the mall to find watch fix-it place
•          Decide watch isn’t worth the price to fix it and the new battery
•          Leave the mall
•          Go to Whole Foods to purchase more shelf-stable Gluten-Free foods so I have something “safe” to eat in Ethiopia
•          Go to dollar store
•          Kids choose $40 in junk toys to hopefully keep the newest kiddos entertained in the hotel room in Addis Ababa
•          Come back home to dig duffel bags and suitcases out from under the house
•          Find out our winter coat storage bin got wet in the recent rain
•          Ensuing stress
•          Trip to Laundromat for Paul while I stay home and sort $40 in junk toys into separate piles for rationing toys out during our stay
•          Short visit to super hot attic for one more suit case
•          Find elusive fleece blanket/sleeping bag in attic (yay!)
•          Finish packing toiletries
•          Pack food into hard sided suitcase
•      Begin making more lists of things I still have not done but absolutely need to do before we leave in…

2 days and 16 hours!!!!!

But... at least I have food!!