Okay. I officially feel obsessed with sites like airbnb, vrbo, book-it, home away, tripping .com, flipkey, housetrip, vaystays,

Vacayhero, roomorama, and wimdo!!!! I mean, who even knew that there were so many in the first place right?! Many of the properties overlap as people post on multiple sites. Howevecur, there are soooo many it can get overwhelming!! We can’t actually book it until next month,when my hubby gets his bonus, but it’s freaking me out. I’m so so concerned that one of my favourites will be booked by someone else…I really wish we could just book it now and pay for it in full then. Just to reserve it. I think that once we have something chosen, I will chill a bit more!! I still love the place from last night that I found. It turns out that the regular price was $145/night and that came out to about $116/night already calculated with the 20% off…so the price is either $145/night with 20%off or $116/night. She invited me to book it, but I must wait my hubby says…argh!!!! I found a couple others, similarly priced. One of them has an incredible, so so beautiful pool/beach area!! It’s to die for!! It is truly out of a fairy tale and the condo itself is gorgeous as well. It’s very modern looking (many of the places I’ve seen photos of lol like they were decorated in the 70’s!! It has a glass rain shower, with separate deep tub, king bed, modern kitchen free wifi, flat screen tv’s in bedroom and living area just looked very nice. It’s hard to get past the beach and the grounds. They blow me away!! It’s a bit more removed from downtown. But there’s a concierge who helps you with getting around. It’s on the high end of our budget, reviews say it’s like a five star resort !! It’s not that bad though. Also beach access, chairs, cushions, towels etc are all included! Many of the beaches you have to pay for access and again for chairs or umbrellas etc. Go to the beach a couple times and it quickly adds up. Also, this beach doesn’t sound busy!! There are even little covered gazebos on the sand with cushioned lined bed things. It looks divine!! I also found a funky sounding b&b. It’s run by the neatest sounding couple, he has a recording studio in the basement and she teaches yoga. They both do reiki. They help you book things, they’ll drive you places, pick you up from the airport, etc. They got the best reviews. These people apparently make your stay amazing. They have a pool. They serve breakfast or other meals as desired. I think I’m leaning towards having our own condo and/or studio apartment. I like the privacy. Although that couple does sound pretty interesting. Decisions decisions!!??

I had the house to myself this morning. My hubby and oldest were at work, while the other two were at school. I fiddled around looking at places to stay. That can take up a very huge amount of time!! I want to find all of the he best places. Although, i suppose that there are just more and more nice ones. At some point I just have to pick one!! I had to pick my daughter up from work, because she didn’t want to wait for my hubby to come home. We just hung out, watched tv. Big brother…,,,etc. After school, it was my younger daughter’s first dance classes of the season!! Drum roll please!!! She’s ecstatic!! My hubby and I were not so excited!!! Yay! We have to be. Driving almost every day…yay!! Welcome AAOD!!!

I need sleep super badly, so I’m going to head to bed now. Night All! 💤😴

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This morning my son went with his friend and his friend’s family to watch the demolition derby in New Serepta. They picked him up at about 11:15. They ended up leaving early, because it was super windy and it was blowing dirt into their faces and eyes. They waited to watch the trucks, as they were told that’s the best part. It ended up being true and they were glad that they had stayed. He got home around 3:20.

While he was gone I spent my time between my Jamaica book, the website cheap Caribbean and airbnb. I found one place that I really liked. The problem was, it advertised for $116/night,plus an additional 20% off if you book for a week!! However the total was based on $145/night. I don’t know why the price changed. I really like this one too. So far it’s my favourite. I showed it to my mom and dad too! It has a beautiful balcony, that is steps away from the pool! It’s amazing. It has a queen sized bed, most have doubles or singles. It’s in a safe area. It has a full kitchen. It has on site security. Monitoring everyone coming and going. I’d feel safe by myself if my hubby was off doing some partying or something, which he keeps saying he’s going to do. And, I don’t doubt that he will…when we were in Mexico, years ago our now 15year old was only 6 months old. The first night we arrived, he went out without me. The next day we were walking around the resort and tons of people were like, oh hey Arizona!! Hi there Arizona! Good morning Arizona!! It was crazy!! We landed early evening, had barely been there and it was our first morning there and half of the people at the resort knew him already!! Too funny!! Anyway, if he feels the need to go out, when I don’t feel like it, if I’m tired and want to sleep or just lounge by the pool. I’d like to feel safe doing so!! So I emailed the owner of this place to ask her to explain the price to me. I mentioned how beautiful her place looks and how inviting the pool area looks and how we’re quite interested, but don’t understand the price change. If it stays that way, my hubby will say it’s too high. I, personally, don’t think that about $950 for a weeks stay (that includes the service charge as well as the cleaning fee.) is all that outrageous…it seems reasonable for what you’re getting!! Anyway, I guess we disagree on what we consider to be an acceptable price. I did tell him I refuse to stay in a dive. He’s lived in dives in his past and they don’t really phase him, but they most definitely phase me!! The other thing about the one that I like is that they’ll arrange airport pick up for free, as well as it’s in the safest area on the whole island. Are you guys tired of all my a Jamaica talk?? I think once we get something booked I’ll relax more.

We went to my mom and dad’s for supper, around 3:45. We talked a bit about Jamaica and I showed them some of the places I’ve been looking at!! Then we played Anomia (I may have spelled that incorrectly!!). It’s a really fun game. You each take turns flipping over a card faceup. If your shape matches someone’s, then the person to say whatever is in the written category on your opponents card the fastest, wins that card. Like citrus fruits or mystery novelist could be categories. It’s fun and entertaining! It can be funny too! I highly recommend it!! My aunt brought it to my parent’s house when we were all there and we played it then. We liked it a lot, so, when we saw it in Chapters!! After Anomia we played a few rounds of five crowns. We couldn’t play a full game because we had to eat supper. Mom cooked a small, super nummy roast. We had supper, then a short dessert, and coffees. Then it was time to go. Once home, I gave my son a bath. Then we got ready for bed. I put my little man to bed and here I am in mine!! Night All! 💤😴

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It doesn’t matter how many spaces I add between paragraphs or stanzas, this stupid program just gets rid of them…let me tell you – it annoys me to no end!! I put a space there for a reason guys!! Jeepers! Time for them to fix that glitch in

programming. Drives me crazy!! I just had three spaces before the end blurb that I add to all of my posts. I went out for a second to read something and I come back and, bam! There’s no spaces between what I just wrote and the end blurb at all. Super annoying much??

Anyway, today we had a pretty lazy Saturday morning. We slept in and then just lazed in bed for quite a while! It was super nice!! We finally wandered downstairs around 11:30 – lol. My daughter, the younger one, was watching So You Think You Can Dance, but it was an episode that I’d already seen. I had some coffee and read some of my Jamaica book, from, or rather, by Lonely Planet. It has plenty of useful information in it so far. I was reading about the currency exchange. It close to $100 (Jamaican dollars) to $1 (Canadian dollar). In other words, every $1 Canadian is equivalent to $100 Jamaican dollars!! That’s a bit crazy!! I just know I’ll get confused, once it’s in high amounts!! Good thing there are calculators on phones!! I also have now read about 3 separate waterfalls that you can climb and/or swim in. Two compete for the most beautiful waterfalls on Jamaica. Sorry I keep rambling about Jamaica. Can you tell that I’m excited and that I don’t travel far away very often?? I’m just so so pumped!! It’s just too exciting!! I also read more about the dolphin swimming. There are different packages you can buy, the best being $169 American. Something we’ll have to save for. They actually have 25% off if you book before September 30th. We have to figure it out!! There are no festivals happening when we’re there, which is a shame, but there’s supposed to be some street dance parties that get crazy with “the most provocative dancing you’ve ever seen”. My hubby gets a bonus in October and wants to use that money to book where we are going to stay. However, I’d like to book right away, just to hold the room. Then we can it for it with his bonus later. I’ve found tons that say pay upon arrival. Even some that don’t require credit cards to book. I would just like to know where we’re staying. I think it’s freaking me out a bit. The web–sites don’t help. They’re constantly saying stuff like “Only one room available…in high demand…just booked…going fast…etc” Do you think that it’s honest about one room left or is it trying to freak you out?? Because that’s working!!

Most of the day was spent reading my book or looking online for places to stay. My hubby and I looked at our budget for the next five months and panicked a bit. There’s not many places to cut back to save for our trip. Especially with dance starting up. That’s always expensive!! I’m not quite sure how we’re going to pull it all off. Damn it!! But, we will figure it out!! Don’t ask me how we’re doing Christmas this year… sigh!

I made us chicken salad for supper. It was good. Yummm!!! It’s one of our easier meals. Everyone eats it, there’s no fighting or fussing. It’s a go to meal for us! Easy peasy!!! After supper, my hubby and daughter had to go to bed early for work tomorrow morning. I played the Balloon game with my son. Then I put him to bed. And now I’m putting myself to bed!! Night All! 💤😴

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Today the book that I ordered from Amazon, about Jamaica, arrived! I started reading it and there are some cool places to see and things to do, I tell ya! Pretty exciting stuff. A few things are what my hubby mentioned, but include more important details, like cost and phone numbers to book it, etc. There are more than one waterfalls to visit. One of them is just smaller levels and shallow pools, while one of them has deeper pools to dive into. It looks abut intimidating and fun at the same time!! So does the blue cove/cavern thingy (I forget what it’s called). You jump down into a pool of water and then dive down and under and come up in a blue cave. It also sounds a bit scary and fun at the same time! I’m still determined to swim with Dolphins. There’s a neat bar out on the ocean and you can only get to it by boat!! It looks neat!! Some of the all-inclusive places look remarkable!! I want to go to one of those, but then I don’t, because staying in a studio apartment would be neat to. And definitely cheaper. I just don’t know which to do. As long as we don’t stay in a dive!! I don’t need the best, but I also don’t want under 3 stars, I think that’s being reasonable. I don’t think I’m asking for too much!!?

Well, I fell asleep!! It’s now 3:37!! I’m going to bed!! Night All! 💤😴

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This morning, after dropping off the kids at school, we drove to the city to check my parent’s mail and water there plants. They’re coming home in the next couple of days!! Yay! It’ll be nice to see them. All is well at their condo. So, that’s good. Not that I expected there to be a problem or anything! When we got back home, I had a nap. I was feeling tired, like yesterday. So, I decided not to fight it. I’m taking longer than the kids at getting used to waking up in the morning!!

This afternoon I looked at more places to stay in Jamaica. I found one that looked amazing. Totally luxurious, but I have a feeling that it’s above our price range. It came up, despite my search parameters, probably because there was not s price, it said to contact for price. After reading the description, I’d guess it’s one of those that are more than $1000/night. Crazy!! I’m just looking at basic studio type apartments, this one looked like a mansion. The description spoke about the long-time butler…yep, you read that correctly!! Butler‼️ I’m pretty sure it’s ridiculously expensive! The butler serves you a drink upon arrival. There’s tennis courts and volleyball courts on the grounds. The pool area looked like it came out of a magazine!! Well, I need to get my brain back to the places in our price-range and out of the fancy-schmancy places. We probably will not be spending most of our time at the place we’re staying at anyway. I’m sure we’ll be busy all day. We’ll probably be there mainly to sleep!! (Speaking of sleeping…I just fell asleep and accidentally deleted this whole damn post!!! I haven’t done that in ages!! I remembered that I had updated it once, so I exited without saving and reopened it and some was back!! So I didn’t lose everything: thank goodness. I’m too tired to start from the beginning.)

While I’ve been looking at places to stay, my hubby has been spending his time looking for things to do while we’re there. He found The Bob Marley museum, some neat waterfalls that you walk up, bamboo river rides, a place called Mystic Mountain theme park, a cool bar out in the middle of the ocean that you have to take a boat to get to!! It looks really neat! And, my personal favourite!! He found s place where you can swim with Dolphins!! I have always wanted to do that!!! It would be so cool – just incredible!! He found a water park that looks neat, it’s like a water slide on top of a mountain!! He watched YouTube videos of People travelling to Jamaica. I ordered a book from amazon about Jamaica. That should be helpful!!! Well, it’s 1:05am and I’m sooooo tired??? I’m going to get to bed. Zzzzzzzzzzz… Night All! 💤😴

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Today I have been super tired all day! I felt myself drifting off super easily and it happened all day long!! I don’t know why I’m so tired…well, actually, it’s probably because I’ve been getting up early, to get the kids off to school, and staying up once they go. I’ve never been a spectacular morning person, I prefer to sleep in. However, I haven’t got much of a choice when the kids are in school!! I mean my 15 year old gets herself ready, she’s up long before I am, but I still have to get up with my son and get him fed and ready and make his lunch, etc. It’s kind of in the mom job-description.

I spent a lot of time looking at places to stay in Jamaica today. I did some comparing hotels/resorts/airbnb. It’s not going to be an easy decision. Most resorts are all inclusive, so you don’t have to worry about your food. However, some people prefer to go to the different restaurants. Many hotels include breakfast, as do bed & breakfast places. There are so many things to consider when deciding. Food is just one such thing. We found a little studio apartment that is part of a resort, it has a little grocery store attached, there’s a pool, and it’s right on the beach. You also have access to resort services. He even leaves a phone there with minutes left on it for local calls. Hmmmm…it’s a tough call. I like the idea of having a little studio apartment to ourselves. It’s a tough call. I guess we still have a bit of time to decide. Right now I’m falling asleep again, so I’m going to hit the sack and get a real sleep, not a half-assed drifting through off, write a few lines, sleep, write more, etc. I just have to get a good night of sleep in!! Night All! 💤😴

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Great! I’m definitely going to be falling asleep tonight while writing! I just woke up. My daughter woke me up. I fell asleep putting my son to bed, while singing to him. He had his very first day of school today. Grade two begins!! My hubby and I spent more time looking into holidays. New Orleans isn’t going to work out😢 We really wanted to go the re, but my hubby’s companion voucher is only good for westjet flights that have no other connecting flights with other airlines. Westjet has connecting flights to travel to New Orleans. So, instead, we decided on Jamaica!!!!! We’re leaving on February 8 and coming back on February 15th. So that’s what this posting is about! We’re going on a trip! Just the two of us! How exciting !!! Now I’m hitting the sack. I’m tired !!! Night All! 💤😴

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My hubby and I may be going to New Orleans in January or February!! How cool would that be right?! How can we afford it , you ask?! Well, we can’t. Not really. But…we have to go somewhere! If we don’t, the buy one plane ticket get the other completely free deal, that he earned with all of his travelling for work, will go to waste!! We can both get to and from New Orleans in January for about $650, return flights!! So, we have to save up until then. The flight has to be booked in the next few days or we lose it! However, we can find a place to stay, we’re looking at airbnb.ca for options. We’re hoping to find a place with a kitchen, to cut costs a bit. There are some very reasonable places to stay!! I’m so excited!! In the twenty some years we’ve been together, we’ve never had a holiday, just the two of us!! When the girls were younger, we went to my cousins wedding, in Calgary, for two nights and my good friend Holly watched the girls (that was before my son was born). Also, a few years ago, I went with him to Toronto. However, he worked the entire time, while I hung out in the hotel room relaxing, reading etc. I think we maybe had dinner together one time!! And that’s it!! Anywhere else we’ve gone, we had the kids with us. Those two times don’t even really count as holidays. The first was spent entirely with family, the second my hubby worked the whole time. So, the thought of just the two of us getting to go away together is very exciting!! I’ll let you know where we decide to go once we book it!! Yay!!

Today was busy. We had to go to the city to get my son school shoes and headphones. We had to unload all of the camping stuff and clean the cooler/put stuff away, etc. I also had the great pleasure of helping my younger daughter clean up her bed area in her room. We didn’t get her whole room finish, but we pulled her bed out removed the mattress, cleaned under it and all around it. She has been finding tiny black beetles in her room and she was freaked out and didn’t want to be sleeping uwith them, so we cleaned her bed completely…over, under and in between. Up and down and all around! Dr Suess would be proud. We found a few more, but not an infestation or anything. Thank God!! I was nervous when she told me she’s been finding them in her room, after our pantry experience in the kitchen, a few weeks ago. But, like I said, it was not even close to that level. So she was relieved. She refused to sleep in there last night and slept on the couch in the living room. She tried to sleep in our bed. However, my hubby was already asleep and had to get up for work at 4am, so I didn’t want to wake him and ask him to grab the couch. He would have slept on the couch if he had known and was already/still awake. He was in bed before we got home last night!! Did last night’s post not work?? Usually the posts show up in order for me and the most recently published one is on the top, which is logical, but last night’s isn’t there!! There’s just the day 2 camping one…it’s bothering me that it isn’t there!! Hmmm… what was

In that post?? Our last day at the camp ground. My daughter went tubing (behind Keith’s boat), my son and I played Veronica’s bean bag toss game and hide n’ seek. Then, we joined the test of the group on the beach, got ice cream, played hide the rock and my son played in this uuhe sand. Then we packed up literally finishing just as it began to rain. We drove home in the rain.

I’m falling asleep and I have to drive the kids to school early in the morning. Night All! 💤😴

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Wifi not working and I have no service…great! I’m so bloody tired! There’s a major wind storm going on right now. In the tent it feels like we’re going to blow away!! So far, we’re secure. Let’s hope it stays that way! Goodness it’s loud!!! It sounds like something’s going to come crashing down!! We were all sitting by the fire, when suddenly the wind started going crazy! Howling through the trees. Blowing chairs over. It was around 10:30 anyway, so everyone gathered stuff and went to bed. We had several offers of beds in the different campers. However, so far anyway, we’re doing fine.

I got a bad sunburn today. We spent a couple of hours on the beach and it was hot!! I had some sunblock on, but I still burned!! It was a hot one today!! It was deceiving, because it was also breezy, which camouflaged the heat quite a bit. I’m heading to bed. I don’t even know if this is working!! Night All! 💤😴

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What a long day today!! I can still hear some of them around the campfire, talking and laughing. My son was tired, so we came to bed. This will be my shortest post in history, because I can’t even keep my eyes open. Literally. They just won’t

Stay open. I’m beat! We had a great day. Last night’s tent building held up well. My kiddos were cold, but I was fine! I think I had the best sleeping bag though. Keith’s parents lent us a little heater for the tent tonight and I’m already roasting!! Lol! Hopefully the kids are fine. We had a good day today. Everyone else graduallyu arrived throughout the day. Some from Beaumont, like us and others are Keith’s friends and family. Quiet a few people are here. Close to 36 people total!! Way more than I thought we’re coming!!

We had ice cream. Mmmmm. It was good. We sat around visiting.

This has to end. I’m too tired!! Night All! 💤😴

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