and baby makes 6!

During the summer, I get really lax about baths etc.
When we go swimming, I count that as a bath. Hey! They get submerged. The dirt gets washed off. At our pool, because of the amount of chlorine added, my kids even come out nice and bleached. Here [...]

Just a quick note to give you a great tip.
When making your evening, frozen lime daiquiri (limeade, rum and ice, blended smooth), substitute Cruzan coconut rum for the Bacardi.
Pour into a glass, and sprinkle with fresh coconut.
That is where we are tonight. It’s a boat party of sorts.
Todo bueno!!

Well, just got word that the survey is complete. All checked out well with the Dehler. Some minor stuff that needs to be repaired, but the bottom of the boat looked good, the motor was great, and everything seemed sound.
It was a wet and cold sail. Heavy rain followed them [...]

Knowing that I love a good travel blog, Kathy offered up a few with a new twist…..sailing travel blogs.
Really Kathy, like I am not slacking on my domestic duties enough, now you have Bill and I obsessively reading sailing travel blogs. Evil, I tell you.
What? You want links?
Fine. But don’t blame me if [...]

Miss Mimi is prepped and ready for some sand. She got her own mini pedicure and manicure, after I got mine. It was priceless watching her face as the lady painted the flowers on her toes.
When I told Bill, the first thing out of his mouth was “How much did THAT cost?”**
I [...]

What good are you people if I can’t show you my cool toe art!!

Next time, I think some sand dollars or shells are in order, no?

I am completely confident that I was born in the correct era. I never would have survived living in a log cabin, in Texas, with no central air conditioning. I would have sucked at being a prairie mom. My kids would have starved due to my lack of gardening skills. Or, [...]

There comes a time in life when the parents must get away.
We did that this past weekend. We loaded up into Bill’s truck and took off with nary a kid in sight. They were in good hands, which made it a bit easier for me to leave Mia with someone other [...]

After 96 hours on in the ER, nothing says welcome home like a broken air conditioner…..in Texas.
Good thing the blender is working without any kinks. The margaritas are flowing tonight, baby!

Linkin Park – What I’ve Done
Wow. This is a powerful video. Watch it.

I am working my way through the list in my last post, crossing things off as they are done.
I may not have accomplished much on paper, but there was one thing I did today that outweighed anything else. I turned off the computer! and took my daughter to an orchard to pick peaches [...]

I have too much that needs to be done. I must:
-make plane reservations for 2 trips
*Blogher (I swear Chris, I am doing it this morning)
*California, Disney etc
-make hotel reservations for Bill and I for our escape
-I need to [...]

We celebrated a day early by heading down to the coast to spend the day with Bill. A wonderful lunch, some fishing, and more love than I ever dreamed possible.
Happy Mothers Day to everyone.
**more photos here on Flickr.

On Tueday Bill, Mia and I hit the road after dropping the boys off at school. The destination was Kemah, Texas and we had a list of boats to check out.
It turned out to be a gorgeous day, but very hot and humid.
We crawled around on several gorgeous boats, and we were [...]

The large, pretty snake we found the other day was gratefully released into the wilds….not until she made it known that humans sucked, and she was not going to put up with out bullroar for one more minute. Cory got nabbed, and she drew blood. He came in LAUGHING after the smelly snake [...]

Picking dewberries is wonderful.
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Eating them warm, straight off the vine is pure heaven.

While sitting on the Strand in Galveston last weekend, Bill and I watched a mighty load of interesting folks while enjoying a couple of beers.
In the course of an afternoon, we watched a woman stand up from her meal and start whacking her male companion repeatedly over the head and across the face. [...]

Taking the road less traveled…..it has always been his way.

He would rather be doing this than anything else in the whole world.

Cory is 4′8″

Dingos think snakes are wacky and interesting, as long as someone is holding it.

Her coloring is just fabulous! The minute Cory saw her he said it was a Texas Rat snake, confirmed by a herp dude [...]

My kids got out early today from school. I remembered this fact 2 minutes prior to needing to be there. I really do need to take some memory enhancing vitamins.
When we returned home, we found the dog barking hysterically at the bushes off our back porch. Upon further investigation, we found a [...]

Way back at the beginning of the year, I can’t even remember when, my Vibiemme got sick. She decided that it was too dang much effort to signal her boiler to heat up the water required for espresso, and that was that. I was devastated.
After months of putting it off due [...]

See my little linkies to the Blogger Choice awards….down there on the bottom right. Black Belt Mama nominated me for Best Parenting and Best Photography blog. If you haven’t voted, would you be so kind as to cast a vote for me? That is, if you like me. Or think I [...]

As usual, I could see Bill ahead of me, his legs moving smoothly and strongly. We were on a bike ride and it was a beautiful day. Not a bright,sunny, blue skies burning kind of beautiful. It was actually cloudy, hot and muggy. Texas coast muggy. The beauty was [...]