The Dells! And more...

[sarah6183]

So I am getting excited, cause we are going to the Dells, April 13-15th!! We are staying at the Wilderness, my FAVORITE hotel there. We are just going to get the 2 bedroom frontier condo... I wanted the 3 bedroom, but it was $100 more, so not worth it. With the 2 bedroom, we will have Nadia and Rocco sleep in the room with the two queen beds, Mike and I will have the master bedroom, and Dane will have the living room. The nice thing is that the living room has one of those huge room divider curtains, so won't have to worry about waking him up when we make breakfast and such. This will be our first time going to the Dells... we did go to an indoor waterpark in Waukesha for Nadia's 4th birthday, but that was almost 2 yrs ago. Dane wasn't born yet, and the kids still feared water. Now that they've had swimming lessons, I know it will be great. I will handle Dane while Mike and the other two take on all the waterslides. I hate waterslides... LOL.

What else... hmmmm. Well, since we got our taxes back, the first thing I did was pay off my jeep. YAY! It is great actually OWNING 2 vehicles. It is the first time I have paid anything off... lol. When my ex and I split, we ended up having to file bankruptcy, and our house foreclosed, so that sucked. So that is why i am so happy to have paid off the jeep. I am just proud. Now, gotta sell it. Ha. We already have the Aztek, so we dont need an additional SUV. I hope to sell the jeep and get a car that gets good gas mileage. There are so many out there that I want... but we are trying to stay away from having to make payments. So if we can sell the jeep for about $5000 that would be awesome.

We've been in the new house 3 months now... I just love it. I have moved... 9 times in 7 years!!! It could be the fact that I am insatiable..... LOL. But anyway, this is the FIRST time that I am actually satisfied with where I live. I don't feel the need to check the paper for a better place... and that is great!

I am thinking of putting Nadia into ballet this spring. My aunt has her daughter at the Kenosha Academy of Dance, and Nadia actually went once to try out a class, and loved it. She use to go to Scamps, but I was tired of her taking the same course twice... it seemed like a waste of money. So this past winter, when they said she should repeat Level 2, i said forget it. I will have her go into ballet, where they actually move up after each class!

Might have Rocco play t-ball. He tried soccer at the Rex Plex last year... didnt go so well. Lol. He would cry when the coach would yell to the kids to do stuff! i said, Roc, why are you crying? He would say (though his tears), cause he is yelling at me! So, yea, that didnt work. But I am hoping Roc has matured enough to handle Tball... Guess we will see.

I also want to mention that part of my concern with having the kids in extra curricular activities is the fear of my ex in laws coming to games/recitals. See, when my ex and i split 2 yrs ago, his family blamed me for the split. When in reality, it was on both of our parts. The ironic thing was that his parents and granparents were divorced too, so what hypocrites! Anyway, i havent been around his family in two years, and if i had my way, would never see them again... But with having school age children, i suppose that is near impossible....

Anyone else have to deal with that first re-encounter with the ex in laws?