Delimpo Days: Grandma Camp

Part of the reason mom came down for Camp Grandma was so that Anthony and I could get stuff done around the house. It is amazing how much you can get done when you don't have to worry about your child. Normally we wait until Levi is sleeping to get anything done, which doesn't give us much time at all!! So on the first few days mom was here....this is what we accomplished.

1. Anthony mowed the whole back yard and front yard, weed-eated the entire hill and behind the big hill (that normally takes about 3 hours total)

2. I weeded the garden and my flower beds (which were horrible becuase I hadn't touched them for almost a month)

3. I trimmed all of my day lillies and hostas (which about broke my back and took a really long time).

4. Anthony installed a new garbage disposal (thank you Marcus!)....it's AMAZING!!! Without my mom watching Levi....this would have taken a whole day for Anthony do to on his own....not to mention we probably would have been fighting and not talking to each other because of the stress.

5. He trimmed our overgrown pear tree in the front yard

6. We were able to go out to eat and do some shopping on our own. Thanks to a gift card we had, we were able to eat at Outback Steakhouse for free!!! And it's so much easier to go into Lowes without worrying about your child playing hide-n-go seek in the paint aisles.

7. Anthony shampooed the upstairs carpets (which was greatly needed)

8. I cleaned out all of my kitchen cabinets and all of the closets in the house

9. Mom cleaned out our fridge and the oven and folded about 5 loads of laundry for me...thank you very much Mom!

I'm pretty sure there are many more things that we got done that day, but just this list alone is amazing! Here's some random pictures of that week.....

One of Grandma Camp traditions that my mom does is for the grandkids to open up her change purse and get money....

...then go stick it in their piggy banks!

Why is it that a child would rather have pennies than a dollar bill? Mom tried giving Levi a dollar bill and he wanted NOTHING to do with it. I need to teach him a lesson or two about money! ;)

On one of the evenings, all 4 of us went on a bike ride. Mom said it was her first AND last bike ride in Kentucky. It took me a while to get used to the hills down here too...where I grew up everything is completely flat!