Cleaning, a Trip, and a Gift

I have been in the throws of spring cleaning.  How is it, one can keep their house pretty clean, yet get grossed out when spring cleaning. 

I am almost done, then next week, I will be starting outside.  I m so excited about going outside and getting my hands dirty again.  Although, I must say, I am getting them pretty dirty in my house.

I have been able to find a complete supply of Nerf gun bullets for my kids while cleaning.  As a family we have the perfect house for Nerf gun wars.  We hide behind furniture, plan out attacks, our battles are legendary.  Relatives do not come over without their guns.  I have found bullets everywhere!  And the kids are happy and ready to reload.  But they are going to have to wait.

We are going on a vacation to Denver tomorrow.  It is a vacation mixed with activities provided by the military.  This vacation is for families who have experience deployment in the past year.  So there will be team building activities mixed with our fun family time.  We are excited, and leaving a day early so we can have extra family time.

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My husband has many friends from college living in Denver, so we get to visit with their families, and listen to fun college stories.  We are going to home school along the way, and teach a little history, geography etc.  Great hands on way of teaching.  I love these ultimate vacation/field trips.

Finally, we get to deliver a gift to our adoption agency while we are there.

At the beginning of the school year, Oldest Bit decided he was going to make fliers and hand them out to everyone he knew.  These fliers were to collect clothing items for the orphans in China.  When I say decided to make fliers, I want to be clear.  We did not plant this idea in his head.  He went on the kids computer, went to power point and created a flier.  Then gave the flier to everyone we knew and did not know.  He did it completely on his own.  We ended up getting clothes from all over, including Washington D.C..  I contacted our adoption agency about his project, and they were so excited!  This week, Samuel finally gets to deliver what was collected.

This is a little taste of what he collected!  Really, there is a great deal more!  I have been going through all of the clothes, sorting and washing.  I am very, very proud of him!

The next time I post will be from Denver!

Have a great day everyone!
Suzy