Three Painted Nails

  Hope you have a coffee, a wine or at least a good chunk of time to enjoy this one :)  **Please note, lol, I started this on June 27th 2022.   It is now July 28th 2023. 🤷**      Since the days when Covid first locked us all in our houses we dreamed of the vacations we'd take when we were finally allowed to travel again.  We talked about Europe, nah, too far.  We talked about NYC again, nah, I need more than 4 days there.  Vancouver?  Nope, more expensive than Vegas.   So, Vegas?      I've been sitting on a WestJet credit since March 2020 watching it burn a hole in my pocket so we bit the bullet and booked a vacation in October 2021!  YAY!  Mike and I away for three short but well needed days away, sun shining, eating and drinking our way up and down Las Vegas Blvd!  And then we did the math.  On a dirt cheap trip, $1050 bucks to be exact, we were going to have to pay $600 for pre-travel testing.....

These stories are getting harder and harder to write, not for lack of desire or content, but lack of time.  The days of sleep deprivation and diapers are long gone but they feel like yesterday.  What do they say? "The days are long but the years are short".   That is true as shit, itellyouwhat.   Two small and mighty girls are getting bigger by the minute and the attitude is proof.  But every now and then something happens and the stories just flow.  This one I'll call the Great Sleepover Weekend.  Madison, if you didn't know, is Miss Popularity so every February I anticipate all of the birthday invitations to roll in.  We know she'll get invited to lots of parties in March (for some reason her closest friends are all March babies).  Her best friend Sansa is included in that of course because in a strange fluke, her birthday is the day after Maddy's.  Her second best friend is two weeks after hers.   In the past 6 weeks she's been a...