Thoughts from the Weekend

* It was Mother's Day! Happy Mother's Day to all the moms! Isn't it ironic that on Mother's Day everyone thinks it is wonderful to gather and spend the day with mom. I just really wanted to get away from my kids for a bit. Maybe I am just so covered up by the little monsters all the time I don't appreciate them as much as I should.
* D and I did get away for a little while on Mother's Day. We hired our sitter so we could go kayaking without the kids. The first time I have been able to go. We paddled from the beach where we start to the Fox Island bridge. It was very fun and very funny. Here the currents move very quickly; paddling down was great, back--- not so much fun. For a few minutes we were literally paddling in place. We were both paddling away when I said to D " I don't think we are going anywhere". After 50 or so more strokes right next to the same dock he finally agreed. We stayed closer to the shore and the current wasn't so bad. It would have been really embarrassing to call the sitter and ask him to have his dad pick us up.
* We saw a hawk catch a fish, many crabs and sea stars, and a harbor seal while we were kayaking. The seal was too cute;I wanted to take it home with us to show the kids. He was more than a bit suspicious of our boat.
* M was under the weather last week and when he came out of it he seemed to have jumped a couple of milestones. He talks more than E now--- say a little prayer for us, we are going to need it.
* Just when you think the kid will never get it, we are raising him wrong and he is going to have a bad case of the Gimme forever E says this: I think I just want my friends to make pictures for my birthday book this year. I have enough stuff. I like looking at all the cards my friends make for me that we keep. (All the cards the kids receive each year go into the birthday scrapbook). Maybe there is hope for him after all. We are having more and more of these nice moments happening with E. :)
* E fell and really scraped up one of his elbows. After we got him cleaned up we noticed G off to the side crying. His explanation: I just feel so sad that E got hurt. E was over the tears, G was almost inconsolable with sympathy for him. :(
* Our desktop computer is so slow that I now bring in the laptop to work while the PC is loading pics from the camera or printing. I love the laptop!
* My tulips have finally (kind of ) opened. They still close at night when it cools off. At this rate they will be around forever! I will put pics on sometime when I have 3 hours to waste on the desktop.
love and hugs, B