The Van’s back and other stuff

Sorry it’s been a few days. So much busy work to take care of. 2 days ago I got the van back and it’s looking beautiful. As a matter of fact, I’ve drug my feet on putting the car seats back in etc. I don’t want it all messed up inside! But today, I will take Casey’s mini-van and get it washed etc. and put all of our stuff back in our van. I realized that I have to make a trip to North Island for a new sticker since I have a new windshield. More stuff to do. Yesterday I managed to take the kids to MCRD for a little bit of play time before I buried myself under mounds of paperwork. I had to go out and buy more manila envelopes to be able to mail all of the things I found to mail. Several of you will be receiving manila envelopes with odds and ends in them. Kateri took Tristan with her yesterday, so he had a play day with the Hilton kids. He also got his “back to school” haircut. Very nice. Anna and Maddi were lucky enough to tag along with the Gillcrist family to see Nancy Drew last night. Thanks for taking them! Mariah had her JRP class last night and we finally turned in her pics with her resume and work permit. She has an audition on the 18th and will finally have everything ready to go. After I got back from Mariah’s class (10 pm) I started all the searching for tickets for Clay and JJ to head out to Scranton at the end of the month. It turned into a 2 hour project! I totally messed up the whole thing while trying the get the best deal! I booked Clay’s ticket and car by itself because the site I was using wouldn’t let me choose 1 round trip and 1 one way ticket. So, I thought, “no problem. I will go back and book JJ on the same flights”. No dice! They don’t book 1 way flights, no exceptions! I frantically started searching the internet for the same flights (by this time not caring the cost), but could not find the same combination. I was finally able to go through the first airline and they hooked me up. Thank you Javier! He was one man doing his job! However, during the whole process, I started thinking about Clay and Kateri’s trip (which is before his and JJ’s) and that while they had plane tickets, no car or room for Clay. So I started searching for a room for Clay. There’s no room at the inn! There are literally no rooms around the college for his dates. Fortunately we have a couple of contacts who have contacts out there. Let’s hope someone can come up with a suggestion. That’s it from here. Just lots of busy work. Today’s more of the same with a trip to the library thrown in (gotta return those books from 3 weeks ago so as not to owe). Maybe something exciting will happen to write about. ~