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As my dedicated blog followers have noticed (i.e., my family), I've been a little slow on the posts lately because Derek is on vacation. We went out on a date on Thursday night and then had Lab Day on the Cape yesterday (which left all of us exhausted today - everyone slept in until 8am!). No rest for the wicked, though, because we have to menu plan, grocery shop, organize, pack, and figure out what we're going to do on vacation next week! Thankfully I'm (compulsively) organized, which has made this process a bit less painful. Last year when we went to Maine I saved my packing list and meal planning notes in Evernote. EN is a lifesaver at work, but this is one of the ways that I have also found it to be immensely helpful at home! I just pulled my lists up from last year and made some minor tweaks today while the kids napped, and then I was ready to start packing!


I've been off work since Thursday and I immediately shut all of the notifications, banners, and crap off my phone so that I'm not thinking about e-mails 24/7. It's been such a great change that I think I'm going to leave  the settings this way when I come home! The house we're renting doesn't have any wireless, so outside of posting a few pictures to Facebook from my phone while we're away, I'll be catching up on all of my blogging when we're back home later this week.

Until then,
MUAH!!



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