The Race is On!

I got up early this morning because I have so much to do to get ready for Chicago. I have the packing started so that I would have all day to think about anything and everything we might need so I don't forget anything. The last thing that I would want to do is forget something that R might need, that wouldn't be a fun birthday. I found an awesome recordable card yesterday and recorded my message last night telling him that he actually doesn't have to sit in a meeting all day tomorrow with his boss and that actually he's off to Chicago with his lovely wife, then it plays a song after my message, it's perfect. I worked on the itinerary extensively yesterday and mapped out everything and found addresses of restaurants and attractions.

I'm a little concerned about the weather because it's supposed to be stormy tonight and tomorrow. I'm taking an umbrella but it's also supposed to be windy. I'm really, really praying that the weather holds up because we are walking EVERYWHERE in Chicago. We are driving to my cousin's house tonight and then taking the 6:40am train into Chicago tomorrow morning. We will end up having all day Friday and then pretty much all day Saturday there. We're going to take the train back on Saturday in the late afternoon/early evening. I had to shorten the trip due to the cost factor but you can easily cover A LOT of ground in two days in Chicago, I've done it before.

I'm super excited and can hardly think straight. The one thing that I have to do today is get my school work done. I have a discussion post to write and then a couple more chapters to read for my assessment class and then for my portfolio class I have my homepage and resume to work on so I'm going to be busy. My plan for the day is to get the packing and stuff like that done while Little man is playing or keeping himself occupied and then save the school work for nap time and when my mom arrives. She'll be here around 4:30 so that will give me an hour right before we leave to get some work done. I have until Sunday at 11:59pm so I'm not driving myself crazy trying to get everything done.

On to the freezer cooking.........IT WENT GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! After Little man went to bed R and I teamed up in the kitchen and got to work. We created 6 different meals and got them all into the freezer. I did one the day before so with all seven meals we are going to be eating for the next month. I spent a great deal of time coming up with a menu, planning out a calendar of exactly what nights we needed dinner, and plugging the meals into the various days. It only took us an hour and a half and our freezer is full. We had a fun time spending time together in the kitchen so that was an added bonus. The actual ingredients for the meals wasn't really that expensive because I tried to pick recipes in which we had a lot of the ingredients already. We'll still need side dishes to go along with these meals but my main concern was getting the meat portion all set. Also, since I know exactly what we're going to have each night for dinner in the month of June it will make getting the few weekly groceries much easier. Now all I have to remember is to get the food out of the freezer, haha.