How We Spent Our Labor Day Stay-cation

(From September 2012)

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Do you remember writing those papers about how you spent your summer vacation on the first day back at school?  Because every grade-schooler wants to jump back into the school year by writing a paper, right? :-)

Well, we didn't have much of a summer vacation -- Chris' employer has been offering unlimited overtime since June and the moment Chris finished training and was eligible to start cashing in on that (literally!), he did.  

Due to some lingering pain from his last carpal tunnel release surgery, he was having minor hand surgery again over Labor Day, and since trying to type in the first few days of recovery would not be fun for him (and that's pretty much a requirement for someone in IT), we decided to make a week of it.

We took a day to sleep in, laze around the house and do nothing at all.  It was great!  Then we were all geared up to start potty-training Averie and the first day, Saturday, was ..... an experience.  Mostly, it involved a LOT of clean-up, although she did have two successes before the day was out!  But the next day was Sunday and by the time she woke up, it was too late, then it was church, then nap, and with everything else ahead, we just realized it wasn't the right time to take this on. 

Monday was our ultra-productive day.  We had a baby in the spring so we did "fall cleaning" instead :-).  Chris and I are both what I would call "purgers."  Don't need it?  Get rid of it!  Trash or DI, whatever, but it's not staying with us.  All our years of marriage, we have culled our things regularly throughout the year to keep our living areas uncluttered.  It doesn't mean we don't have a lot of stuff -- *sheepishly closes the door on the bedroom closet full of clothes and shoes* -- but at least it's all used regularly :-).

Tuesday was surgery and Wednesday was recovery.  

Thursday and Friday actually felt like vacation.  Well, stay-cation.  We went to the state fair and the aquarium with the kids and had the BEST time.  Separate blog posts on those (loaded with pictures) coming right up.