It's Springtime! Run Around Outside!

Stop what you are doing, take off your clothes, put a bucket on your head and dance in your driveway!

It's leap-frogged Spring and headed straight to Summer.

Not that I'm complaining....

Panama City-Wooh!

Lucy decided to get our Spring Break trip to Panama City off on the right foot by promptly stripping down to the buff and getting into the freezing cold water. This was seriously after a 9-hour drive to the beach. The kids did great and we had an amazing week. Click on any of the pictures to see them in bigger form.

Her puritantical parents decided underwear might save us from getting reported or arrested on the spot. She didn't seem to mind the cover-up action.

Later on in the week, she had other opinions about something else. One of her many talents.

I know that many people think that Lucy looks just like Matt and Asher. But I have a picture of me as a child that I look EXACTLY like this. It is odd how much I can see myself in her everyday. And frightening.

Spring Break '09! Baby Pool Pitcher! Woohoo!

Everyone say it together...awwwwwww.

FYI: This is what you look like when you get the flu at the beach. And you are three and a half.
Seriously, you have to click on this picture to get the detail that is there in his eyes. It is awesome.

So we are back and Asher has the flu. Apparently, he had the flu pretty much the whole time we were there. Which made things "special" while we were there.
But you can tell from the pictures, we still had a pretty good time!
Glad to be home. But I am READY to see 75 degree days in MY full-time forecast.

Spring Break Oh-Ate

Last Thursday, me and six of my girlfriends took off for a bliss-filled four days in Panama City Beach, Florida. Well, not really four days. Since it takes about 10 hours to get there (seriously) it counts as three nights, two days on the beach, two days in the car. But three morning to sleep without someone appearing two inches from my face at 6:30 in the morning saying, "hey mommy. I'm awake. I have poo-poo."
So, it was COMPLETELY worth it. I actually pulled a muscle in my side from laugh so hard. I don't think that has happened to me since college.

Just a note to you, if we are in the planning stages of a trip like this again, you will want to shower me with presents, love and affection to try to join us. This is pretty much the funniest group of women I have ever had the pleasure of being around.


One of the best parts of the trip was that everyone was married. It is not a slam to you if you are single. It was the first time that I have ever been on a trip where everyone was married. I just want to let you know, it is very different from a "mixed experience" type of trip. You know that whole phrase, "one flesh, not ashamed"? Well...it applied to every aspect of this trip. We all owe Robin Plemmons a debt of gratitude for breaking our conservative little private lives wide open! No matter how buttoned up and conservative you think you are, she has a way of making you think that driving down the strip and flashing your boobs for beads would make your husband proud.

We absolutely did nothing of the sort. But we did flash each other.


The beach was beautiful. The weather was great. We played speed scrabble and dominoes all day and all night. I wouldn't trade those four days for anything.

In case you don't love my summary of the weekend, you can visit Robin's blog and you can see that I am not the only one who had a good time.

Now that I am back, I am having quite a bit of trouble getting into the swing of life. I feel like I did in college, when you are a week away from finals, but all you can think about is what you are going to do once finals are over and you have the whole summer stretching out in front of you.

Except, I don't have finals and well, summer and vacation are not exactly reality anymore. But our summer at Windy Gap is quickly approaching. Yesterday marked the one month countdown until we arrive. I can hardly wait!

Quite a week

We have had quite a week with the kids since they were out of school for Spring Break. Exactly what kind of break kids in Mother's Morning Out has yet to be determined.

But we had an Easter Egg Hunt with the Knauers, a snowstorm on Monday, gymnastics class on Tuesday, mommy meltdown on Wednesday, Daddy trip to Chapel Hill on Wed-Thursday and a beautiful sunset today. See pictures below:





Also, we went to the Y this afternoon; but thanks to Spring Break my kids are used to having me around all week and so they promptly lost it when we arrived at Childwatch. They never settled down and I had to load them back up in my car 15 minutes after I got there. We came home and had a great time playing in the yard. But I pouted like a child for a good hour until I could embrace that my kids just wanted to play at home.

I can be as stubborn as a child sometimes.