***Sigh*** It is Friday!

It is Friday. That sucks. That means today is our last day here, as tomorrow we will start to pack up and head back into Hillsborough. But...I would rather not even think about this for now.

I went to the Fair Market/Yoga store this morning. I bought MYSELF, no one else, just me a few pieces of bead jewelry. And I bought a Global Mama, which is a good luck charm. She is pretty cute.

I think we are headed to the beach for a couple of hours this morning, then we will go to the pool. We will probably go out to dinner tonight, we have done really good eating in this week, but we will splurge and eat out tonight!

I am so sleepy, ideally it would be nice to go lay my the pool or ocean and take me a little nap, however, I just do not see that happening. Those little urchins that I birthed will probably have 1 million comments/questions for me. Oh well...I wills sleep another day.

Still to come, my take on how everyone should have to go through a "What Type of Bathing Suit Suits Me Class." Just wait for that one....

Yes Cathy, I Did Like Him....I Hope To See Him Again!

So...I am just returning from my date night. It was exceptionally good...I bought a bag of elastic hair bows for $3.00....there are 250 in the bag....ohhh I am way happy about this.

Sheldon and I did really enjoy our night out. It is funny how different a date night is now, compared to when we were really dating. I got a little dressed up, wearing a knit skirt and a purple top, and of course I had on my bling bling shoes. Sheldon looked really handsome tonight, as he wore his blue t-shirt with jeans and his rainbows. He is so tan, the light blue shirt looked even better on him than it usually does.

We left the condo just before 6. We first went to a store Sheldon had stumbled upon earlier today, it was a yoga store. They were actually closed, but there was about to be a yoga class, so the nice lady let me look around. I will be going back there in the morning...I saw some things that I NEED.

We had a nice dinner at....Hooters, cause they have the best beer, or that is what I am told...anyway, they did have a new appetizer, tator tots covered in cheese, bacon, chives, and sour cream...they were the bomb-diggidy let me just tell you.

Then we headed over to a small shopping center and walked around for a short while, nothing screamed, "Buy me, Buy me" so we left. We drove on down to Beaufort and walked by the docks. I stopped in the oldest bookstore in North Carolina and bought a couple of books. From there we were on our way to get ice cream. That is when Callie texted me to tell me they too were on their way to get ice cream, so we met them there.

I was out of pepsi at the condo, which anyone who knows me knows this is a very bad thing, so when we finished up our ice cream, we departed from Jane and the kids and headed into Walgreens, which I had never visited before...this is where I found the 300 elastic hair holder thingys. We walked around Walgreens for a few minutes. Then we came back to be re-united with the kids, at 9:47pm. Yep, we are night owls!

We really did have a very nice evening. We laughed about different things, we enjoyed each others company. It does sound kind of like Ma and Pa going to the Golden Corral, but it really wasn't like that.

Today was pretty good. We spent a lot of time outside today, either at the pool or on the beach. I got a little sun, which made me happy. I even got my hair wet today! It drives Chase crazy that I go to the pool but don't get my hair wet, I usually just dip in to cool off.

I did figure out the hair wrap thing too, and frankly, I was pretty proud of my work. It turned out darn cute. It took me about 30 minutes to do it, I had convinced myself that as soon as I did it she would wear it for 10 minutes then want it out, to my surprise, she asked me if she could keep it until school had started...one month away...which I told her, no, we would be taking it down, but I would be happy to re-do it.

So tomorrow is our last full day here. I am so sad it has ended so quickly. We have had a lot of fun. I dread going back to work, but I am trying not to think about that...I told myself I could start thinking about work at 9:00pm on Sunday night. Anyway, tomorrow we will go to the beach for our annual picture session, I always do portraits of the kids on the beach, I have been doing it for probably the past 5-6 years. It has gotten harder, rather than easier to do this. One would think that as the kids got older it would be easier to photograph them. No...it is much more complaining and whining...but...I don't care...they will smile for my camera, dammit.

I included a picture of me and Sheldon in the pool today, after 14 years of marriage, this could very well be our first picture together in a pool. Also, check out that hair wrapping thingy I did...seriously amazed myself.

The Day Before the Day Before We Go Home

So, all day yesterday I felt this pressure to come update everyone on my trip, but I was just in this nasty mood yesterday. I guess trying to entertain everyone and make sure everyone was having a great time became a little overwhelming yesterday.

Sheldon had not felt well the day before, so I translated that to he was just bored and not having fun, which I guess was not really the case. The kids were being, well, kids and I took that as they were being whiny butt brats and they were ungrateful little shits. But, Sheldon came to the corner that I had started rocking back and forth in last night and coaxed me out, then explained that everyone was having fun and I needed to just relax. (Okay, so I wasn't really in a corner, but that is only because I could not find one that did not have crap strewn everywhere.)

Yesterday morning we ate our breakfast at Dunkin Donuts....yum yum. For some reason it seems okay to eat 23 munchkins, but guilty if you eat 2 regular donuts. Go figure. Then we hit all the cheesy gift shops. We were on a mission to find those stinking hair wrap thingys, kind of like you see on people who take trips to the Bahamas. It is basically embroidery floss wrapped around a small braid. We had no luck but I did find a website last night that explained how to do them yourself, so guess I will be trying that this afternoon. Yeah me.

Chase and I had this little tift yesterday, but we got that all resolved so life is better there.

I was about to get into our parasailing trip, but the us girls just decided to hit the Dollar Tree....I must run. I promise to fill you in a little later. I promise.

And....I have a date tonight. Me and Sheldon get to go out on a date. Jane is keeping the children and we are going out...HOORAY!

So, I will update more later, and just wait til I tell you all about the women here and their choice of bathing suits....whew!

I'M ALIVE, I'M ALIVE!!!

I am alive, I lived through the parasailing. It was a real experience.

I am pretty exhausted, so I will save the story for tomorrow, but I wanted to at least log on and tell my friends that I am alive...before Cathy came and claimed my bling bling rainbows!!! And after the windy trip in the air, way way high in the sky, I really need my hair products....really bad....

So, night night for now, watch out for the bed bugs...

I Hereby Bequeath to my New Friends....

So, in just a few hours I am going to go Parasailing. Me...parasailing....OMG, what was I thinking? I wasn't, that was the problem...I was sitting at work daydreaming about my upcoming vacation, decided to search online for tourist attractions when I came across a very nice picture of a parasailing outing. Sign us up...we want to do that! And I did just that, called and made our reservations!

What would have possessed me to do this???? Too late to back out now, they have my credit card and if you don't give them like a six hours cancellation notice, they will still charge you...screwed, I am screwed.

so in roughly 2.5 hours, I will be on a boat with my two children, my sister in law, Jane, my niece, Callie, and a very close family friend, Jennie, awaiting our "flight".

We will be going in pairs. Jane plans to just ride the boat, but not actually parasail. So, know what that means? We are short one person for everyone to have a partner. Know what that means? One of the adults will have to go up twice. How come I think that someone will be me? Cause it probably will be!

I feel this is completely safe, as we have seen many many people doing this over the past few days. I am confident, okay, a little confident that I will live through this experience. But just in case....

I do not want a church funeral, I want a graveside. I do not want music played. Please have the preacher read my favorite verses from Ecclesiastes. Ecclesiastes 3 Verses 1-9. And if you could, please send my on to my next journey with a can Pepsi in my hand. I might need it. Oh, and want to be buried in yoga clothes, I need to be comfortable.

I would also just like to leave a few of my most prized possessions to a few of my friends...

Jenn-I leave you my bling bling ring you gave me. I have carried it in my purse everyday and even put it on during my work day for a few moments just to feel as special as I did when you gave it to me.

Di-I leave you all my hair products, cause you do have the best hair ever. I love how you express yourself so proudly.

Julie-I leave you my craft project box. May you have actual initiative to use it. Enjoy my googly eye collection, I really cherish them, as they make me giggle.

Gretchen-You my dear, you get my yoga books. Anyone that can put their feet behind their head and is not doing yoga has missed out. I also have this one that is couple yoga...what fun...but hey, I know we spooned and all, but don't think about me as you and your DH enjoy the couple yoga book, k?

Jackie-I leave to you all my photo albums that are plagued with pictures of our two beautiful girls. I also leave to you my wireless Internet card!

Cathy-You know it girl, you get my bling bling rainbows, and the rest of my shoes. I don't have yellow, but I have red, pink, blue, brown, black and white. And could you explain to my husband that they do not all look the same, they are all specific for certain outfits. Maybe he will listen to you!

Helen-I leave to you all of refrigerator magnets. Some are gawdy, but some are pretty cool and I think they would look marvelous on your new frig! Hey, take that bottle of wine in the bottom drawer too! Enjoy!

Michelle #1-I am leave to you my Prozac pills, anyone with four little boys, they deserve Prozac, and lots of it. You can have my ambien too, once you take it, you too can go to my happy place!!!!

Rachel-I am leaving you first dibs on my house, my husband has hated it there for sometime, even though I love it, so my guess is he will have a for sale sign up quickly. Since our house will be paid for in the event one of dies, he will sell it to you for $1.00. Then you can live "close" to Chapel Hill, about 40 minutes or so. And you will be 10 minutes from Jackie and her cake balls.

Jamie-I leave you with my GPS system. Mine is named "Dammit Bee-atch" cause she says make the next legal u turn often, and it drives me insane, feel free to change her name if you wish! I am just thinking perhaps when Caroline needs a vacation, Dammit Bee-atch could step in!

Colleen-I leave you my collection of gift cards to various restaurants. You so deserve a night out, also, I would like to send your sweet baby boy to the nicest playground ever, I want him to have much more fun than hanging out in the pediatric hospital. I also want to leave your husband the "Best Hubby" award for letting you come out and play with us while you had a sick child at home.

Sara-I leave you with my J.Crew credit card, I put a $5000 credit on it, buy only flip flops. Every color, every pattern, heck, have them make you custom ones that only you will have. Purchase some for your friends if you wish, share the happiness!

Hopefully all of this will just be useless knowledge you will have, and I will be right back here blogging away, boring all of you some more, probably having a drink, but alive nonetheless!

I love you all sooooooo much.....be back later....... I hope........

Professional Snorkel-ist, we are not....

Well we snorkeled today. We had a really good time. I saw a few fish, one even bit me, just for fun I guess. We decided that with the tropical storm that just went by us, the water was really stirred up, making it pretty impossible to see anything. But by goodness, we wore all the snorkel equipment that I searched hi and lo for last week.

We looked very silly too. I did not take any pictures...dang it. We did not even pull out the waterproof camera. No need.

We ate our picnic lunch, Kenz was in a poor mood cause I packed her a Nacho Lunchable and not a ham sandwich...so she pouted, and pouted. The rest of us enjoyed our banana and sand sandwiches and chips.

We enjoyed the secluded beach area we had went to. There were other people there, but they were far, far away from us. It was like we were having our own party.

I could not help but laughing at Aunt Jane as she freaked out a couple of times and looked like she was having some sort of spastic attack trying to get back on her feet while wearing the fins.

Mac hated it, she was not into the tripping over her own feet kind of thing, she could not get the breathing down, and I could not seem to get the patience to show her down, so we were not a great team.

We had fun, which was all that mattered. We might try again later in the week....if I don't lock these kids in the room that is. It has been raining this afternoon for about the last hour, and Chase has asked one bajillion times if it has stopped and could we go to the ocean...I am about to snap....breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out...deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep cleansing breath!!!!!

Day Three...The Natives are Restless

Day Three, the natives are restless, seem to get bored unless someone is standing on their hands entertaining them. Beach, sand, playgrounds, outdoor pool, jacuzzi, basketball courts, tennis courts, 43 board games in the drawers....and my kids cannot sit for 5 minutes without saying, "I'm bored!" Seriously????

I had a very relaxing evening last night, as I sat on the balcony for HOURS writing my own blogs, then reading others. Sheldon watched tv back in our bedroom while the kids and Jane played badmitton on the courtyard.

I woke this morning, even earlier today than yesterday, something after 5, so by 6am I was on the beach with my yoga mat and my thoughts. I had a very good session, a great meditation, then I promplty rolled my mat, came back in our room, got my car keys and snuck out. I drove straight to the Dunkin Donuts and bought 50 muchkins, and a Box O' Joe. Oh well...relaxed and fat...whatever.

We are heading out soon to go snorkel. Chase, Sheldon, Callie and myself, snorkled last year through the aquirium here. This year we decided to go out on our own. Wonder how much water we will suck down...ha ha!

We are packing, (we, meaning Jane is) our picnic lunch as I sit on my rump and type. We, (meaning the kids) are packing the towels and yelling to each other to not forget the underwater camera....how exciting! We, meaning Callie, is spraying the kids with sunscreen and they are dancing around cause it is cold and they are yelping...

AND OMG...Mac lost a tooth last night and the tooth fairy did not stop here....bad tooth fairy. I believe that she just did not know to come to the beach, so here shortly I will be making a call to my bestest buddy from home and have her contact the tooth fairy with our location. Maybe the Tooth Fairy can make an emergency stop while we are snorkeling.