Bachelor Days

Well we are almost at the end of my week with just my sons. My wife and daughter went to a dance competition this week and the boys and I stayed behind. I had to work and the boys stayed for school. We really would have liked to have gone too but just couldn't get the time off. The week went surprisingly fast for us and we managed to have some fun with dinners out, basketball games in the driveway, and a movie night. Tonight is our last night without the girls and we are heading out to swim with the local youth group. We all missed the ladies very much and look forward to getting them home tommorrow.

Preparing for a trip

What would you do if your were going to be away from home on Halloween weekend? We are setting up timers around the house for the lights, have talked with our neighbors to have them watch our home and we are forwarding the home phone to our cell so we can catch the calls that come into the house. Do you have any tips to help protect your home when you are away?

New York, New York

My excited daughter is going on a trip next summer to New York with her mother and the dance school she attends. Now my wife wasn't letting her go all on her own to the big city so she will be going as a chaperone/assistant for the group. Now this type of trip isn't going to be cheap so they will be doing lots of fundraising over the next 6 months or so. They have to have their deposit ready to go for the end of October, $35o each so we will be digging deep to come up with the necessary funds to get their place secured.