Packing

Unfortunately, with any kind of travel comes the inevitable task of packing.  I hate packing and I usually wait until the last minute.  Well, early in January I figured that since I had to pack 2 weeks of stuff for the kids too I should probably get an early start.  Well, here we are two days from leaving and the majority of the suitcases sit empty!  I did think about starting to pack quite often, however, I have yet to acquire supernatural powers which will magically get things done by thought alone. 

Anyways, we had to borrow some suitcases from relatives since we didn't have enough of our own....we'll we do kind of.  You see the one suitcase we loved and used all the time had it's wheel broken off a year ago and now it's a pain to try and lug the thing through the airport.  And then there is THE CLOSET ON WHEELS.....this suitcase is massive and I think the thing weighs about 20 pounds empty!  We used it last spring and ended up having to pay an extra $100 just to check in the stupid thing!  Needless to say, we really didn't want to use either of those. 

So back to the borrowed suitcases....they were in storage for awhile and had a musty smell to them, so seeing that we were gone all day yesterday running errands and so forth I had this ingenious idea to put the suitcases out on the front porch to air them out.  Great idea, huh?!  Now insert a stupid cat into this story and I am assuming you can guess where it will lead.....Yeah, one of the dumb barn cats from up the street decided to mark his territory on a suitcase!!!  Thankfully, it was only on one and that was the one we didn't know for sure whether or not we would use.  I guess the decision was made for us and we are NOT using the thing because I am positive that neither Rob nor any of the kids would like their clothes smelling like cat pee!

Lesson learned or should I say reinforced from all of this...cats are still dumb and only good for mouse control and food for larger carnivorous animals!  This was definitely not the way to win brownie points with me seeing that I disliked cats from the get go!  As for today....my goal....I WILL GET EVERYHING PACKED!!