and baby makes 6!

Another reason I keep Bill around

He still makes me laugh.

A few days ago, he asked me where I wanted to put some new towels that I bought, and in frustration I said something like “Just stack them on the back of the toilet for now”.

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The next day, while unpacking groceries, I handed him a package of toilet paper and asked him to put it away for me………………………

The subliminal message here is that he doesn’t like the towels on the back of the toilet. Got it.

Fire and ice

Taken with a 70-300mm Nikon VR lens from a moving truck. I admire greatly this lens and my camera.

What a skim board looks like

It’s how we feel

It was in the 80’s here this weekend, so we went to the beach. Heaven, I tell you. Blue skies, bright sun, warm sand. It is supposed to be this way all week. Unreal.

Mia was so full of joy she just started dancing on the beach.


She spun round and round


and round


Spreading her arms out


And enjoying the amazing January summer


I wonder if she was thinking in her little head, “I can’t believe I live here!”


I certainly was. It was unbelievable weather.

But really, it was just another day in paradise.

Giggling Mimi

Please ignore her dirty finger nails. A girl with 3 big brothers has a way of finding herself playing in the dirt from time to time.

She speaks no evil though, and wants to let you know the blawg will be updated again next week when her mother doesn’t feel so overwhelmed with nothing and everything.

Have a fab weekend, and everyone up thar in the great north…snuggle in and stay warm.

He’s stepping into liquid!

Cody got a skimmer board for Christmas, and it has changed his entire perspective about going to the beach.

Before this epic, random purchase, Cody rarely got wet when we went lately. Sure, he played in the sand, ran down the beach, raced hermit crabs, climbed all over the rocks at the jetty and enjoyed himself somewhat, but he preferred to stay high and dry. It was like he hit a certain age and the water no longer appealed to him…………..or it could have been the fact that he saw Jaws on TV. Or maybe Shark Week really got to him. Not sure, but when your family basically lives for beach time, it is a drag if you are not all that into it.

So, while shopping at the local surf shop, we grabbed a skimmer and thought, “well if Cody won’t use it, someone will”.

We found his button, and I do believe another surf rat has been born. That makes 4 for 4 now.

His belican

Oh, a wondrous bird is the pelican!
His bill holds more than his belican.
He can take in his beak
Enough food for a week.
But I’m darned if I know how the helican.

Dixon Lanier Merritt – “The Pelican”(1910)

My bill holds plenty. There is a point though, in which it can not hold anymore, and stuff spills out.

I am a firm believer in “if you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all’. I don’t succeed all the time, but I try very hard to be positive here and in my life.

Do me a favor. If your bill holds more than your belican, jot down your frustrations and then throw them in the trash….. then dance nekkid around them until they lose their power over you. ;*)

Ugly thoughts about others should not be spilled out of your mind and into your mouth or keyboard like a gumball dropping out of a gumball machine. It is not good for you, for me, or for the hearts and minds of others who hear or read about it. Negativity breeds negativity. It is a vicious thing folks, and you just don’t want to kindle it in yourself or others.

“Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.” Alfred A Montapert