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The Hotel Pool
I took one look at the hotel brochure, and saw this picture of the pool and said ahhhhh. My husband had a conference to go to in Tampa — it’s not too far from Disney. So, after seeing this picture, we decided to take the boys and enjoy ourselves.And, did I mention the hotel had a pool? What a perfect place to take my 4 boys while my husband is busy listening to Newt talk. I’ve got plenty of sunscreen, the hotel provides luxurious towels — we’re set. After the 45-minutes of applying lotion, putting feet into sandals, and making sure everyone was suited up, and another bathroom stop, I…
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The games we didn’t play at the lake
I saw Joe’s post earlier, and it reminded me of this. I have few regrets, but there is one thing I wish we had done that we didn’t do at the lake, it is this: I wish we had played card games. Maybe it was all of those camp fires, and the s’mores that stood in the way. Sunset was always late — but for whatever reason, we never did sit around that card table and deal the cards. This is what my parents did on Friday nights with my Aunts and Uncles. We’d all gather at Grandma’s house, where Hearts, Rummy 500, and sometimes Spoons was a favorite. My…
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Mom, open your eyes and close your hand
Wordless Wednesday
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One Mom’s desperate attempt to avoid the doctor
Tea tree oil dropped in neti pot to clean sinuses... more. . .
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Just an innocent little cat call
This guy acts all shy, and quiet and buries his face when he sees a girl he likes. His latest “flame” is a babysitter around the corner. One day, I was taking him for a walk, pushing him in the stroller, when she appeared from around the corner and started walking on the other side of the street on the sidewalk. She was dressed in her cheerleading outfit. She looked adorable. And, he could barely contain himself. So, this time, he couldn’t act all shy and quiet — because she was too far away to notice him. So, he yelled across the street at her, “Are you coming over to…
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How to play Spin the Bottle
Spin the bottle is a party game in which several players sit in a circle. The game starts by one player spinning a bottle. Whomever the bottle points to, the spinner must kiss. The person being kissed becomes the next spinner. Traditionally, the spinner may spin again if the bottle points to a player of the same or opposite (depending on the players) gender, though this is not always the case. Spin the bottle is not a game in the traditional sense of having winners and losers, but it does have losers. It is primarily used as a reason for young people to engage in the activity of making out.…
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How to observe Autumn
This books holds a picture of children jumping off a rock into the lake. This is the picture that captivates my boys. It’s not the drawings of the hurricane that rolls in across the lake. It’s always the rock. Mesmerized by the freedom to jump off such a high cliff. Great classic books like this one means different things to you as you grow older. My favorite passage today is close to the end: “As the days grow shorter and shorter there are fewer and fewer boats on the bay, until at last only the fishing boats are left. The wind blows brisk from the northwest, rustling the birch leaves.…
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His first big game
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After the Storm
You know those little plastic patches they give you with inflatable toys? Well, they do work. The trampoline was thrown 300 feet (the wind broke the rope that was attached to the anchor), up the hill, two houses down, where it knocked over a clothes line. This put a big puncture hole right through the middle. The patch kit worked: The tree fell, missing the guest house by inches: My husband was Paul Bunyan all weekend: And we found more creatures. More lake house posts here.
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