2010 Already?

So here we are a quarter of the way into 2010 already. Starting to sound like my parents when I keep saying "Where has the time gone?!". So far it's been a good year. Mandi is doing well in Kzoo. She worked for H&R Block again, but didn't have near as many hours this year since she was new in that district plus she was going to school at the same time. Now that tax season is finished she has gotten a job at a major retailer so I guess she is definitely NOT coming home for the summer. Didn't hold out much hope for that anyway since she seems to be quite happy living in the apartment with the boys. At least she still comes home every weekend to do laundry and get a meal off us! :)

Joey will be graduating in less than a month. He has been accepted for the Fall term at the same college Mandi attends but no word has been said yet about whether he plans to commute from here or move down there with his sister. I'm in no rush for my last chick to leave the nest!

Tax season went fairly well again this year. Had a new district manager (new boss for me) so that was a bit of an adjustment. Definitely a different style of running the district than the former DM. Not bad - just different. As always, I was more than happy when April 16th arrived. It's weird, by August I'm always raring to get back to work. Seemed to have a lot of extra stresses with running the office this year though. Ready to take a breather!

To celebrate the end of tax season, Reinhard and I threw the camper on the back of the pickup truck and took off for a long weekend last week. We headed down to southern Kentucky to visit Mammoth Cave National Park and do a tour of the cave. What a LOT of fun! We took the two hour, two mile long, Historic Cave Tour. Had my reservations about how well we would do on the tour because not only is it two miles of walking, it also involved approx. 450 stairsteps to go up and down. Surprisingly the two of us had no problem with it at all. In fact, I felt GREAT leaving the cave. (Thank you Weight Watchers!) I can't imagine how I would have done something like this last year, or if I would have even tried, when I was 70 lbs heavier. Here is the link to check out the pictures if you'd like: http://picasaweb.google.com/Benhausen/KentuckyTrip2010?feat=directlink

On our way back to Michigan we stopped to visit the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, stopped in Louisville KY to see if we could track down our niece Jessica (she wasn't home but did call us later when she heard we had been there), found a Woodcraft store in Louisville for Reinhard to check out, and made a little detour off the highway to explore a huge indoor flea market/antique mall. Around 2 pm it started raining and since we were not interested in setting up camp again in the rain (did that the night before) we took a run for home. Finally stopped raining when we were only 40 miles from home - figures, right? :D Got home just after 11 pm. All in all a very nice get-away!