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The green house

It's almost 8pm and Juergen and Nicole are out working on the green house. My mom told me it took my brother in law Eric 3 days to put my sisters green house together. Yep! That is about how long it takes to put up a green house. But they are doing a super job. It looks solid and I think it will last awhile! It really isn't so big. I have a banana plant in my garden. It will probably be able to fit in the green house for the winter.
We are pulling all the details together so we can take off on our vacation to Holland. We leave God willing on Friday morning. I bought portable CD players for Philip, Thomas, and Sarah. We have a pretty good collection of kids books on CD. Maybe it will help entertain them on the long drive (between 6-8 hours). Jessica has a portable DVD player, and Nicole has a MP3 player. Juergen and I are going to use the low tech form of entertainment, we hope to talk! I also bought some yarn so the kids can keep their hands busy weaving in the car. Philip at least is pretty excited about weaving. We will also be working on our math. Thomas needs to brush up on his multiplication table, and Philip should be able to add all the numbers up to 20.
Juergen is going to buy a roof top luggage carrier. We would love to go with out it, but with 7 people in the car we just have no luggage space. We booked the doggy hotel for Mickey. He goes to his favorite babysitter on Thursday night. now I just have to finish the laundry.

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