Prepare For Lift-Off

Today we begin our mysterious adventure--also know as summer vacation. (In case you are new here, every year I plan our vacation and Jeff and the kids have no idea what it entails.)

I'm excited, but it's a "tense excited" because I still have a million things to do. Can any of you moms relate to that???

I truly wish I could spill the carefully planned content of my clandestine cauldron into your minds, but one of my fellow travelers might catch sight of this before noon today and figure out where we're going and what we're doing. We can't have that now, can we?

It's actually better this way, though, because when I come back, I'll be able to tell you what actually occurred and there will be photographic evidence (which is always delightful).

There is one of you who is in the know since we're planning on visiting you and your clan, unless a blessed event happens right when we roll into town. (You know who you are!!! Try to hold off on that blessed event, okay, 'cause I'd like to think that a visit from us is a good thing...or at least I hope it is. :))

We have all been so looking forward to this. The closer it has gotten, the bigger my mischievous smile has grown. I've been walking around all week looking very much like the cat who got the cream:


(Please pardon my unmade-up face and hair. I woke up at 4:00 and I've been up ever since.)

Gotta go!