One Year Today

I miss ya partner!!! I love you.

An hour of fun....

Tonight I went to Swimminginlaundry's for supper. After supper, everyone wanted to go to Super Gramma's house. Well, except for Swimminginlaundry. She wanted the house to herself for a couple of minutes of quite time. We ended up at RF school in Mayberry. The school has a nice playground and lots of things to entertain Violet, Herbie and Big Weld. I tried to help Violet learn to stand on her hands. Herbie and Big Weld wanted to walk on the balance beam. At the back of the school ground there is a big area that is overgrown with trees and shrubs that were planted in the late 70's. There are trails through it and we explored all over. Then we went back up by the school. We layed on the ground and did the bicycle exercise and laughed so hard. Then we layed on the ground and looked for stars and talked about the different shapes of clouds. A big flock of noisy geese went over and Herbie said the birds were having a party. I said the moon looked like it was smiling but Big Weld said it looked like a toe nail. We laughed alot and had a lot of fun. On the way back to the car we found a spot where you could make all kinds of sounds and there was an echo. Finally, after so much laughing and being so loud we got into the car. I was afraid someone would report us to the police for being so noisy. I was pretty tired after that but I don't think the kids even slowed down. It was late by then but we were headed to the DQ for ice cream. Swimminginlaundry found us before we got there. The kids weren't ready to go home but we all agreed we had a great time.

Note to self

If you hide a key outside so you wont get locked out of the house put it back after you use it. It doesn't do you any good if it is locked in the house with your other set of keys.

A strange day!

Yesterday morning while Swimminginlaundry was taking a shower, I decided I would dress Herbie and Bigweld. Their Mom had already put out their clothes except for the socks. I got Bigweld dressed but he was very specific about the socks. He wanted the green and blue striped ones with his tie shoes. I found those and finally got them on his feet. Then I got Herbie dressed. Then I looked in the sock drawer for matching socks. I couldn't find any that matched. I found one sock with dinosaurs and one with red and blue stripes. I said hey Herbie are these OK? He said sure so it wasn't long before I had him in his socks. I could only find one of his tie shoes so I found a pair he could slip on. When I held them up and said Herbie are these OK? He said sure. I guess it was kind of a shock to Mom when she saw what he was wearing but it didn't matter to him that his socks didn't match. It still makes me smile. I like to be spontaneous. (I can get depressed if I have to plan 30 minutes ahead). She says how can you be spontaneous with 3 kids. I had finally talked Swimminginlaundry into going to the coast. She had to go sometime. It was hard for her. It's hard for me. We got rained on, the wind blew and the sun came out. Sometimes all at the same time. We sat on a wet log and had lunch. Bigweld fell in the water and got soaked. Herbie got pooped on by the sea gulls we were feeding and Violet just wanted to go to the car because she was missing Grandpa and was cold. Everyone got their own bag of salt water taffy. It wasn't a normal trip to the coast but I think we did alright considering the year we had.