Long Vaca weekend part 2

Part one is here.

Black Friday.  Two words I used to look forward to with anticipation similar to the night before I was induced.  Yes, this year, as I have done every other year, I poured over the sale flyers looking, searching for the deal that would make getting up at 3:30 worth it.  After all, if I can come out of the store with a arm full of happiness, I forget that it is still only 5:15 and my kids and hubby are still tucked in warm beds where I should also be.  This year, however, I found NOTHING that I really wanted.  Is that a sign of maturity?  Contentment?  I donno. 

I got up anyway.  Why?  Peer pressure.  I needed to go hang with my girls (and 1,000 of my closest Wal-mart shopping buddies.)  And what did we buy?  A plunger.  A pack of batteries.  A couple new flashlights.  And then we went out for breakfast.  It was a new record.  We were done shopping and eating at Country Kitchen by 5:11.  (Ok, not all true, we went back to Target when we were done, just because it was too early to go home.)

Since I have been so good with my food intake (Thanksgiving dinner was a green salad with a small side of turkey) I brought my own food for breakfast.

  Malt-o-meal with flaxseed, people.  Yeah, me, I did that.

Later Friday, we headed to the farm.  It was on this leg of the trip, on hour #8 that I made a group decision that we no longer fit in our vehicles and a Yukon XL is in our near future.  I am done cramming like sardines.  Six of us in our beloved truck for a total of eleven and half hours of driving this weekend = six crabby cramping Piepers.

  We finished the beading. 

  Bill and Scott got high spraying branches for the wedding. 

  Princess Pieper helped decorated Gram’s Christmas tree.

  Bill wowed the crowd, and probably made his mom delirious, when he tried on his new suit for her.  Remember, this guy doesn’t wear dress clothes.

It was a busy weekend.  And now I am home for a busier Monday, one of those days when the two parents have to have four kids in 3 places all at once?  Yeah, tis the season for being over booked.

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