Sure, they could lament the fact that they and the teacher's kids were the only ones in class last Friday since everyone else hightailed it to Mexico and outta this 34 degree overcast Wisconsin weather with winds that Pooh would describe as making for a "blustery" day.
The kind of day that makes you feel like Eeyore just paid you a visit.
But with me at the helm, we will not be thinking of all the bodies we know being warmed by the hot Aztec sun. ::cue ugly Lucy cry:: As they lay on a sizzling sandy beach. A Mai Tai in hand. Served by a tall bronze stranger. (pick your fantasy) No, we will not be thinking about this.
Because the trick to having fun at home is in how you present it.
Monday we will be Treasure Hunting Day. Sure, you can quibble, some of you may call it basement cleaning. But in my mind, it's treasure hunting. You never know what you will find down in the subterranean levels.
Tuesday is Rule The World For A Day day. Yes, absolutely right that's what it is. The kids get to do whatever they want to within the square feet of this house. What could be better? Not much, my friend, I know I'd kill for a day like that.
Wednesday is Get To Know Your Family Really Well Day. Uh-huh. This exhilarating day will be spent in close face to face and highly interactive conversational one on one with each other, as we spend our time indoors today: the day severe storms have been forecast.
Thursday is Get Your Wish Day as all three boys get to play Wii and Nintendo till the cows come home. And it really will be till the cows come home. The farmer across the road from us lost a couple of steers to our backyards only a few weeks ago.
Friday is Are You Smarter Than A *sputtercough* Year Old Day as each of the three boys here take Mama on in any games of their choice. They're truly looking forward to this one since they know I only have a few more good years left in this sleep deprived brain and the sooner they beat me, the sooner they can move on.
Saturday is Let's See Who Can Sleep In The Longest Day. What a way to bring our exciting best stay at home vacation ever to a close.
Winner gets to sit in front of my S.A.D. box for 20 minutes.
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Next Spring Break, can I invite myself over to your house because IT CERTAINLY SOUNDS LIKE FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteHope it works out well for you and the kids... and nobody gets cabin fever.
ReplyDeleteYour Saturday activity is the one item on my weekend "Suggestion List" most of the time (I create "Suggestion List," as there's less pressure than a formal "to-do.") And considering I live alone, Tuesday is every day at me house--until the damn squirrels drop off their brunch orders for Sunday. I fill the feeders, but still...so rude.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, what a fun week. You rock, mama.
Is Rule the World Day the royal way of referring to Clean The House Day? This one was baffling since it's followed by a storm-induced inside day.
ReplyDeleteWhat creative ways to spend time at home! JDanile loves the treasure idea. He can dump out every box in his closet and play with their contents for hours.
ReplyDeletehaha...all in how you sell it..gramma took the kids for the first two days of the week...so i am calling it, time to breath and go on a date...smiles.
ReplyDeleteLove all these ideas, but I am SO into Thursday if I get to blog all day and I am SO into Saturday too!
ReplyDeleteSpring break for my kids ends today. May I come to your house this week to decompress (and I wasn't even with them all day)?
ReplyDeleteYou're amazing! We just had Spring Break last week. I should have sent you my boys over to your place. I especially like Monday. What a way to get the kiddos to help clean which is always such a chore to get my boys to do.
ReplyDeleteLove it! :) I will need to remember this post for the future!
ReplyDeleteP.S. Ohio bound, huh? Have fun... I love living in Ohio. Even funnier is in a month I visit DC!
Hey, everyone: we actually got NOTHING done today. 2 out of the 4 here woke up with stomach cramps. I've been told there is a thing called Matzoh Belly, even if you're not Jewish.
ReplyDeleteI, being 1 of the 2 of the four, blame it on the gross new candy concoction Filled Twizzlers (grosser than they sound.)
Why would anyone want to go to the trouble of air travel again when they could have this instead? Given the gender differences of our respective broods, my only switch would be Friday Downton Abbey Watching Day - but otherwise, this is perfect. I mean, minus Matzoh Belly. Oy.
ReplyDeleteLOL - now this sounds absolutely perfect. xo
ReplyDeleteI think I would lose my kind inside for a week! Come to Charlotte and I will serve you a Mai tai. I am jot tan or that hot but I could really get all dramatic and fancy with it. Good luck! I do love the basement cleaning treasure hunt.
ReplyDeleteCandace says: "the end is hilarious."
ReplyDeleteP.S. I love my SAD box.
I am so happy to have found you through TKW! I am going to steal a couple of these to help get me through this week. ;)
ReplyDeleteOh no! Not stomach cooties! Those are the biggest party poopers (no pun intended) ever!
ReplyDeleteI think there would be an uprising here if I tried Wednesday's idea.
ReplyDeleteI'm loving the rest though.
And I want a SAD lamp. No sun in sight for at least a week here in Vermont.
You crack me up.
ReplyDeleteDo your kids find you as hilarious as I do?
Well, after their spring break ask them, and let me know.
It's kind of important.
And I really need to get a SAD box. I really really really do.
What, no Hunger Games?
ReplyDeleteThat sounds surprisingly like our March break only add in Survivor wherein one of the hamsters escaped his cage and we had to find him before the cat did and The Hunger Games where I forgot to go grocery shopping and our dinner consisted of dust covered canned items found in the back of the pantry.
ReplyDeleteI wanna come over to your house for spring break!
ReplyDeleteOrder. Organization. A schedule to look forward to. Ahhhhhh. Better than a day on the beach. Anywhere. Lucky boys to grow up in such a house. (minus the stomach cramps, but that happens to everybody sooner or later)
ReplyDeleteI totally need a spring break. I'm coming over.
ReplyDeleteI love the organization. I'm afraid it's just a free for all around here - every day seems to be the "let's see who can sleep the longest" day, because Mama needs a spring break too.
ReplyDeleteI am so totally envious of your kiddies right now. Sounds like a wonderful way to spend the week, if you ask me. And LOL @ "some may call it basement cleaning..." Whatever it takes to get some things straightened out :)
ReplyDeleteI just saw a M-F plan for the summer days on Pinterest but yours is so much better!! Also... OHIO??? When and where?!?
ReplyDeleteDid you know that you could write a book about this very subject? Filled with humor and great ideas and the hope that every mommy could be as creative as you.
ReplyDeleteI'm finally catching up on my reading - just back from Tonya's and still moved. Will be for a while.
ReplyDeleteYour boys are so very lucky.
And I've missed your words.
p.s. Get to know your family really well day? LOVE!
Our spring break starts monday.
ReplyDeleteI haven't designated activities as yet.
I HAVE purchased a case of wine however.
These are way better than all 5 of my WEEP INTO MY LUNCH AND WHINE ABOUT THE WEATHER days.
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