Keeping Busy

This past weekend Nathan and I got to take a night away (with Caroline of course!) We spent the night in Akron...gotta love those Hilton Honors points, and then headed over to the Yankee Peddler Festival Saturday morning. http://www.yankeepeddlerfestival.com/ Definitely and AWESOME time! The basic gist is that it's acres and acres of people in period (18th century) costumes, period craft booths, re-enactors, and craft demonstrations. VERY COOL! Nathan even had fun...so you know it's not just a craft show! Afterwards we stopped by the outlet malls and checked out the sales. I'm always amazed at how cheap The Children's Place Outlet is! I got a huge bag of winter clothes for the girls and nothing was over $3.50! Can you tell by my recent posts that I have kinda a weekness/habit with kids clothes? LOL!

Nathan left this morning for a couple of days. He is in DC for the Vet's for Freedom rally in DC. http://vetsforfreedom.org/ The summary of the event is Nathan, along with tons of other OIF and OEF vets (Iraq and Afganistan) are metting up on the Hill in DC to not only meet their congressmen, but to rally support for our troops and for a PROPER resolve in Iraq. This meeting was timed to coincide with Gen. Petraeus' speech last week on how the surge in Iraq was going. The Vets have now gone to tell their congressman their point of view on what things are really like over there and how crucial it is to finish what we started.

Of course Nathan was like a little kid getting ready to go last night. He called today and said that he will be able to sit in on a classified briefing in the White House this week! Yep, made his day! He'll return Tuesday night and then off to work Wednesday morning. The girls and I are going to have a normal week with homeschool, errands, and of course lots to do around here. With three little ones, a day's work is never done!