I'm A Weather Junkie

This week had gone by really fast....tomorrow is already Friday.  Jourdan is getting ready to leave on her East Coast trip Saturday.  I have to have her at the school by 5:45am. and then they are off to Niagara Falls.  They'll go to New York city from there where they get to ride the double decker bus that's open on top, take a ferry out to the Statue of Liberty and go to the Hard Rock Cafe. 

They'll be visiting Washington DC and Hershey Pennsylvania and Colonial Williamsburg.  It's quite the trip and they are gone for a whole week. 

I'm so excited for her to go, but I also worry about her being gone for a week.  It's a long week and alot of traveling.  She's a little nervous but I keep telling her it's the trip of a lifetime....and it is.  She's lucky because there were alot of kids who didn't get to go.  The trip was $1000.  We did alot of fundraising to help with the cost but still had to pay about half of it.

Scott and I are hoping to take the kids out west next summer.  Scott wants to move to Montana worse than bad.  That's why we are going out there this summer, to try to find some land to buy.  We'll see.  I think it's hard to buy something when you aren't planning on moving there for a while.  Anyhow, we want to take the kids out with us next summer.  We want to visit Mt. Rushmore and a few other places.  If Beth is still is MO maybe we'll even be able to stop and see her on our way back through.  Beth, wouldn't that be the coolest thing?

This is so funny, John has become a weather junkie.  A short time ago, Scott got me a new laptop so my old gateway laptop is for the kids now.  It cracks me up because there is a perfectly fine desk top downstairs in the family room, but nobody wants to use it.  They want to lay in bed and use the computer, or sit in the recliner to fart around in facebook.  For John, he's made a nest on my bedroom floor and is laying there on the computer.  He's usually on Club Penguin or on the Nick Jr website playing a Spongebob game or something.  But lately, he's been looking at the weather.

Scott found the website for the National Weather Service and you can click on different parts of the country and see the radar map, and then you can click on a button that loops it.  It cracks me up because he gets up in the morning and goes straight to the computer, telling me that he's going to "check the weather".  He picks the region with Michigan and then has to see if we have any rain coming.  That's what he's doing right now.  But he doesn't just look at the Michigan area, he looks at all areas of the country to see what might be heading our way.

He's been on the website for probably 30 mintues just looking around.  It's so funny.  Back when I first divorced Paul and I lived in my apartment and I had the local cable TV.  I always had my TV tuned into The Weather Channel.  My friend Scott, who lives in New Jersey, would call me and he'd ask what I was watching...the weather channel of course.  He couldn't tease me though, he was a weather junkie too.

So I guess he's taking after me.  What's bad is that I'm blogging about my weather obsession.  Like I don't have anything better to do than write about that.  Oh well, it's keeping my mind off everything else that's going on right now. 

More later....