I just finished baking 5dozen more oatmeal cookies with chips, new recipe. I like this recipe best so far.

I have a problem.

Facial was super relaxing. Lots of facial massage,neck, shoulders, upper arms, (and feet! I only had the 30 minute one.) And steam, this time of year? Not just my face, but my sinuses were sooo happy. It was all calm and soothing and with a longer one? Totally could have fallen asleep.

Ah, nice. I absolutely could have fallen asleep, but I didn't want to miss a moment.

This afternoon it was 78° and I was breaking a sweat in a short sleeved shirt. Now it's 36°.

Highs almost to 60 tomorrow. Monday? High just above freezing.

I love facials and have one on the calendar for Dec 22nd, which is my first day off for Winter Break. Also getting my hair cut/colored, which hasn't been done since August.

In discussing camp last night with our daughter, she convinced us to spend a week with her as a staycation. Definitely a whose in charge here moment. I was so thrilled she's spending three weeks at the camp with a bus from the metro station that picks up at 8 and drops off at 5 (so no before/after care) and gives her a hot lunch (with choices) that I suppose she saw an opportunity.

That is great to have the summer camp settled. Cool to now be where I get to go off on trips and the kids have to take care of stuff while I am gone. And they drive me to the airport and pick me up.

I am up and finishing packing! I think DH left his Surface power supply at my sister's house or something, so decision to make on which other computer to bring. Vacation still means 6 electronic devices. 2 computers, 2 cellphones, iPad, and Nook. Maybe next time I will do one of those no power no internet vacations.

I started thinking about summer for the kids more than a month ago, but I haven't done anything about it yet (signups are usually in Feb-April here). This year Casper is 13, so too old for all the 5-12 camps. There are not very many teen camps, and she doesn't like children, so doesn't want a mother's helper gig. I think our best bet is going to be the zoo's teen volunteer program, but it's competitive.

If Casper's over 12, can't you leave her to her own devices? Give her a list of chores and boundaries of where she can and can't go when they're done? I guess there may be more laws and whatnot than when I was a kid, but that worked out all right for me.

Well, we have three weeks of camp settled, anyway, and another three on Jan 5th will need to happen. But a $400 discount is too good to pass up even if I don't want to be thinking about it now. I guess we also have our week at the beach with Sox settled, too, and a week of family vacation, so I'll have eight of eleven done.

What I really need to do is have my daughter get out of the house so I can wrap presents. Go away, kiddo!

We did some weeks of that last summer for Casper. It's just, 9 hours a day of your own devices turns into bingewatching CSI, apparently. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but a little structure and contact with other humans is nice too. Doing that for 11 weeks straight would be not that healthy.