After giving up on the iPod Tuesday, the girls and I had a busy and fun filled week.

I don't usually take vacation in the winter, but I had to use up a week before the end of the year, so I chose the week between Christmas and New Year's (Truth be told, I've never minded working that week -- most everyone else is off, it's a quiet week and you can get a lot of work done).

I was, in some ways, dreading the week -- wondering what we'd do indoors for an entire week. I made a list of household things I'd been meaning to get to and made plans for my mom to take the kids on Friday because I was sure that we'd need a break from each other by then. But, I was wrong on all accounts. We ended up having a blast running all over town doing the things we never have time to do:

We went to see a movie at Tinseltown, we went to the ExERIEnce Children's Museum (and stayed for hourse), we went to see "A Star for Santa's Tree" at the Erie Planetarium, we went out to lunch at the Plymouth, we went swimming at the Y a few times, we watched some DVDs we borrowed months ago, we went on a winter picnic at the park, we played games, slept in, took naps, painted, colored and partied like Rock Stars.

And, now vacation is over and I didn't do any of the "inside" chores -- things like weeding through the file cabinets, cleaning out the spare bedroom, organizing the bedroom bookcase, updating the paperwork in our safe deposit box, etc., etc.

The other stuff was much more fun. And, soon my kids will be grown up and I'll have all the time in the world to clean, organize and plan for my future.

Right now, I'll just live in the moment.