Miss Me While I'm Gone!

Well, tommorrow we leave for the lake for 9 days and I thought I would leave you with something funny. I tell you, there are some real dummies out there.... I also like the way some letters on the sign are capital ones and some are lower case. (And why is there a hyphen between are and country??) I am sure that grammar and spelling are not these guys greatest worry anyway. Anyway, I have spent the day getting ready to leave for the lake. Picked up clutter this morning and cleaned bathrooms. Then tackled Super Wal-Mart with two hideously tired girls. (That was a mistake!) Now I just need to get some things packed and do some odds and ends type stuff. Then I have to get myself all prettied up for date night tonight. I feel like it has been forever since I have had any adult socialization without kids somewhere in the near vicinity. I hope I can remember how to go through dinner without saying "Emmaline, eat." 50 times, or "Annelise, we don't poot at the dinner table and it is not funny." Annelise at least warns us by yelling "Fire in the hole!!" before she launches one. Hers could rival any man's and I have friends who will vouch for that. The girl has a strange natural talent. Anywhoo-we have a lot of gift cards we need to use for different restaurants, and we still haven't made a decision about where we're going. I don't care if it's Arby's- I'm just looking forward to it. My "architect friend" is almost done with our floor plans and it looks amazing so far. I am so excited about starting that house! We can't start the lakehouse until we sell our other 2 lots, but that's ok- it shouldn't take too long to do that. I'm hoping the developer will end up buying them back from us. I think he may be toying around with the idea to sell the whole subdivision to another developer and if he does, he said he would buy them back. It'll all work out either way. I'm going to take all the Benjamin Moore paint wheels with me to the lake and pick out some paint colors for the house. I get overwhelmed if I try to do everything at once, so I'll at least have some of that done. Otherwise, I plan on light reading and catching up on some devotion time and quality time with the girls. (Maybe I'll whip Brian at Mexican Train Dominoes a couple times, too....) Try not to miss me too much. Next post on August 11th.......