Not bad for an old lady

I had to renew my driver's license before my birthday so I went online and was able to renew it with a few simple clicks.  It arrived in the mail today and the new expiration date is 2020.  I'll be 53 by then? (wow, that was not an easy sentence to write but I won't care by then.)  Funny thing, though, when you renew your license online you get to keep your picture.  The picture that they took when I was 40. So that's not too bad.

Spring has Sprung

This week is Spring Break.

When I was in school, Spring Break was always around Easter.  For a long time, it was the week before Easter and then when I was in high school, planning went all to hell and SB was the week AFTER Easter.  I only remember that because when I told my mom about the change, she called the school to confirm.  She thought I was trying to get out of school for two weeks.  If that were the case I would have done another note.

Notes were great.  I would write something lame, like "please allow Kathy into the library after school" and I would get my mom to sign it early in the morning when she was still mostly asleep (and as I write this, I am wondering where that fish smell is coming from? It's been driving me nuts all day).  After she signed the note, I would erase what I had written in light pencil with something in pen along the lines of "please excuse Kathy at 10 for a doctor's appointment."  All that to get out of school early.  I should have at least done something fun.

Anyway, Spring Break usually meant going to Michigan or Ohio to visit relatives.  Or we would stay home and do nothing.  When I was in college, one Spring Break was spent in LA with my sister, and the next one was spent at home, repainting my bedroom.  I didn't do the Florida thing because I never had money, my parents wouldn't pay for it, and I hate crowds. 

So this year we are home and we don't have company.  I love it because I get a vacation too.  Vacation from driving to school, making lunches, homework issues, practice and game issues.  I do not, however, get a vacation from "what are we doing today?"  While I have a break from the few things I mentioned, I don't have a vacation from laundry, cleaning and cooking (PS I did all three today while one child hasn't bothered to change out of his pajamas OR brush his teeth).

Maybe tomorrow I'll spend the day in my pajamas. I will, however, brush my teeth.