Dave and I went to Tennessee to pick up the children. They spend seven weeks each summer with their father. I was able to see all four of the grandchildren, which was very cool. I would have liked to make our way home leisurely, but my 15 year-old daughter has a boyfriend that she was DYING to get home to see.

I love to make the lives of the children as miserable as possible, just to get even with them, so Dave told them that we were going to stop in Nebraska to see the World’s Largest Ball of Aluminum Foil. Annika was devastated, but we insisted that we were going to do one thing we wanted as part of our trip. Dave and I kept talking about directions, and making up details as we went. Every time, I could see Annika furiously texting away to some “unknown” person.

For those of you who don’t know, I love being creative in Photoshop. After we got home, I used my mad skills to make one of my masterpieces. Since there isn’t really any World’s Largest Ball of Aluminum Foil in Nebraska, this one is really good! I didn’t want to take the extra time to make it look really real, but you get the idea!

The best part was convincing the younger girls that we actually went and got pictures of them even though they were so tired that they don’t even remember getting out of the car. Life does have its great moments – and sometime’s you just have to make them up!

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