Recovering from vacation

We got in at 10:30 but it felt like 3 am.  I have become the worst shot gun driver on roadtrips.  My job was to keep Matt awake and I could not keep my eyes open.  Troy was up at night coughing so I kept him home on Tuesday .  It was such a treat to have I'm home again.  He spent the morning drawing pictures -wanted to make me beautiful-with a crown, etc. he kept on talking about how greasy dad is and how he's the biggest dad in the world.  He drew him a picture , put it in an envelope and taped it to the door.  The. He sat there waiting for dad to come home even though it was 10am.  Too much sweetness !

Sophie stayed up til 1:30am working on a project.  She was supposed to write 5 facts from a chapter in the biology book.  She was given the chapter on DNA replication and "didn't feel comfortable" writing facts that she didn't understand so she ended up spending hours trying to understand the su just-researching on the web, etc.  

Ellie has a play date with audry today.  Her parents are a little eccentric and I'm getting worried about the hose not being clean enough.  The mom basically gave me an interview before agreeing to get her to come over.  -do we live on a busy street?  What snacks do we have available.  Is the park near our house busy, etc.

We went to a meeting to introduce families to the cubs out program.  Mathew is so excited, he wanted to start right away.  The next day he begged me to go to the scout office to get his stuff.  I told him wed go when he finished his homework.  He flew through it so we went. Then he was going through the manual asking if he could do things right away.  

Im at the Chinese embassy right now waiting to turn in our applications for Chinese visas.  I spent way too much time on those things!!