Spring has Sprung

This afternoon I took the kids outside to play while I spring-cleaned the minefield of doggie-business that our backyard had become.

It took me about an hour and a half with a pooper-scooper and a trash bag, and I literally developed callouses from all the pooper-scooper-handle-clenching.

I don't know if that counts as working out, but I'm totally putting it in my workout journal. That is, I would if I still had a workout journal. Right now my workout journal mostly consists of a mental note along the lines of ....Monday: ran for thirty minutes when I totally intended to run for forty-five and I only did a level three on the treadmill when I should have upped it to a level four, and I was just going to eat a salad for lunch but now I am STARVING so screw it, I'm gonna go to Jimmy John's and get me a VITO sub because doggonit I love those things, I guess I'll just have to do better tomorrow when I SWEAR I'll run for like seventy-five minutes on a level three hundred and I'll either skip lunch or eat like a brussel sprout or something....

Anyway, trust me, the lawn clean-up coupled with the Wii Fit Plus challenges that Noah kept insisting I play with him means I'm chalking today up to a total exercise NINJA day.

So we are gearing up for Spring Break week; we'll leave Saturday for a week in Wisconsin Dells. I know what you're thinking, But Diane, Wisconsin is such a heavy Spring Break destination, everyone just flocks to the Badger State in early April, aren't you worried it will be crowded, teeming with spring breakers from all over the country?

It may not be a terribly exotic vacation destination, but it is relatively easy and the kids at this age totally love it. Indoor water parks, amusement parks, bowling, go-karts, Wii Sports Resort and/or Guitar Hero marathons....here we come.