and baby makes 6!

Tunnel vision

We have been waking every morning at 6am for the entire summer. Two words: swim team. ‘Nuff said.

But it is now over, and the sleeping late has BEGUN!!!! The above sunrise is the last one I plan on seeing until Bill and I enjoy one with coffee on the boat…in some unknown little cove.

The blog has morphed again, and archives have returned. I am slowly going through them and adding the pictures back that Flickr ate. To be honest, I am glad it happened as it forced me to host my own images, which is something everyone should consider.

Summer bullet list:
-Cody finally got his cast off and SWAM for the first time this summer. He claims his entire summer was ruined, regardless of the fact that he still has more than 1/2 of it left. His arm is as good as new, despite the severity of the break. How severe was it? Well, let’s just say that it was so grossly deformed upon impact (fell off the monkey bars at school) that Cody reached down and, with a scream, BENT HIS ARM BACK INTO PLACE. The assistant principle was standing a few feet away and watched Cody reduce his own fracture. He said there was about 8 seconds of screaming panic, and then Cody just reached down and bent it back in line and said “I need to go to the nurse now”. (shudder)

-I am now run/walking 4 miles a day. 3/4 of it is running, so its good. I have consistently kept it up daily since the end of May, so things (body areas) are moving back to where they should be and I am pleased.

-In the last couple of months I have had a CAT scan, an US and just over $500 worth of blood testing. All are negative. So, the discomfort I am experiencing in my thoracic region and upper right quadrant of my abdomen have no diagnosis. Bill said “You have rocks in your gizzard”, which is something his physician grandfather used to say about people who had a smidge of “the crazy”. I have plans to throw him overboard while we are on the boat alone…..no one will ever notice, right?

-Mia has recovered from Peeps demise, but daily she reflects on missing him. His sister, who kept her hind end in the nest, survived the toddler days and became a fledgling and flew away. We watched her every day and photographed her growth, so it was nice to see her make it to adulthood.

-We have had many more snakes in our yard. Lots of non-venomous snakes I might add. But snakes none-the-less. We catch them, photograph them for our log and release them. It is amazing how much wildlife is here. We were having a beer on our back deck last night, and Honey was barking at the fence so we got up to take a look. It was a deer. She was about 3 feet from the fence and when she saw me, she just stood there and studied me. I talked softly to her and then left her to graze. Loveliness that has no words. It is just magical here.

I have tunnel vision right now, and my focus is on the boat trip, hence my absence here. If I find some WiFi along the way, I will ping you all a pic of my idea of paradise. The thought of being alone on the boat with my husband has me day dreaming. Don’t get me wrong…..I will miss the kids and Honey….I am just ready to have Bill all to myself. Every couple should find the time to be alone with each other. If you have not done that in a long time, do it. Find a way. Get out of the house with each other……closing the door to your bedroom and hearing children knocking and asking “Can we come in yet? What are you DOING in there?” just does not cut the mustard, folks.

I won’t be day dreaming soon…………

You’re a song
Written by the hands of God
Don’t get me wrong cause
This might sound to you a bit odd
But you own the place
Where all my thoughts go hiding…….

When the friends are gone
When the party’s over
We will still belong to each other
~Shakira