A day off constitutes not having to work during daylight hours, so Kid #1 helped with morning chores before they left. He did an extra day of school during Christmas break to make up for being gone.
This year I sent the camera with them. Along with oodles of pencils, notepads, and little gadgets, they brought home a couple of snapshots.
While they did this....
I did this.
One of our team members and I did afternoon chores. I had a sitter for the other kids, and we all enjoyed the change in pace from our regular afternoon schedule.
Saturday night we had a great time at the Friends of 4-H dinner. This annual fundraiser is planned, organized, and hosted by volunteers (read :4-H parents) and is always a lot of fun. Along with a excellent meal there is entertainment, games, and a silent auction. It is so much fun to see your former fellow 4-Hers compete against each other in silly competitions...it takes you right back to fair. So take heart current 4-Hers: if you can't beat them now, there's still time!
We went home with some neat items from the auction including some movie tickets, a food stand gift certificate, local honey, and some tools. All very useful items-and none of them will clutter up the house! Win!
These next couple of weeks will be spent doing normal chores outside, prepping for dry-up, and finishing up all the business related tasks involved with self employment. I'm happy to say we've got our balance sheet, cash flow projection, 2014 inventory, CSP records, and W-2s done! Now onto 1099s, our tax appointment worksheets/summary, and finally getting a year end summary to the bank. If there was one month I would trade Employer for Employee....it would be January!
Happy Tax Season!
I think I'll start planning MY day off! :)
-Terri
