This week Sunday through Tuesday I went to a conference for work in Wisconsin Dells. The conference was Children Come First and allowed me to learn about issues such as bullying, self-injury, advocacy, person-first programming for youth and children with mental illness and emotional / behavioral disabilities. The venue was the Kalahari and this allowed me to bring my family and have a vacation of sorts. While I conferenced, Tad took the kids to the water park and when I finished with my workday, we all went back to the water park for some family fun.
The waterpark was great fun--see the picture?! But the best part, Tad and I agreed, was being in a hotel room (all expenses covered), cranking the heat in the room up to 75 and turning on the fireplace. We allowed our kids to indulge in very rare actual programmed- TV time (with commercials, even--they were thrilled) and relaxed in a room that we didn't have to worry about cleaning.
To save money I brought a homemade pizza which was our dinner both nights and fixin's for both breakfast and lunches. Breakfast was Quaker oatmeal bars (we bring these every time we go to the Kalahari--the kids call them "Kalahari-bars") Lunch was PB & J. The only money we spent was on dessert on Monday night. We all went down to the sweet shop and everyone got to choose what they wanted.
I got a caramel apple
Tad got some wierd chocolate/caramel/marshmallow covered rice krispy thing on a sitick.
Lucy got a blue moon ice cream cone. Since we didn't want her to eat the whole thing (it was big), I kept saying this: "Lucy, want mommy to hold your ice cream cone while you go count all the animal pictures on th e wall?" She obliged and every time she ran away to count things, Tad and I snuck bites of her ice cream. Oh how I relish the days I can still pull one over on her!!!
Coen even got into it. He had her counting plants while he snuck a taste.
We had a great time and I even learned a few things to help me in my work!
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