Brain fog and summer vacation…

As a homeschool mom and blogger I often wonder why my blogs are not eloquent and thought-provoking.  As I sit typing there are three extra kids in my house.  That makes 7.  One son is feeding a neighbor, two are on the trampoline and a few are upstairs on the XBox.  The girls are running around screaming as they play some imaginary game.

Since beginning the process of editing the pictures you are about to see I’ve stopped, vacuumed the kitchen and den, made lunch for myself (only), came back to the computer, looked for a Bible, put a load of laundry in the wash, remembered I was supposed to be working on photos……

Came back to the computer.

Got up again to “lay down the law!”

Tried to remember what I was going to blog about.

Got up again to send them all to the pool.

Asked one son to flip the laundry.  Asked another if he wanted to go to the Apple Store because his iPod touch dropped in the driveway yesterday and I ran over it.  YIKES.

Remembered I needed to go to the grocery store.

Then sat back down to blog.  Now baby girl is in here complained about her brother choking her and “He could have made her die!!!”

And I wonder why my thoughts are scattered and my brain feels like that commercial of the egg frying.

So before I must get up once again here is my scattered but posted post. (Does that even make sense??)

Fun In The Sun

Our Fourth of July was spent in SC as stated in my previous post.

We had a blast seeing friends from our home of 10 years.  Several families joined us for the Fourth.  One made a Corn Hole game and we ate ribs, hamburger, hotdogs, shrimp and steak.  It was a feast, I tell ya!!  Makes me hungry even thinking about it.

While we missed many of our friends because they were on vacation too we enjoyed the ones who stayed behind!  Thanks guys!!

Here’s a few pictures from our trip.

Two men who should not be allowed in the same county!

Maybe this tells you a little of the story of why!

The host of our Fourth of July event.  I don’t care what anyone says, he’s a good ole man!!

Fighting in the pool.

Let’s get the girl!

Brotherly love!  Our friends from KY whose son’s wedding we attended on Sunday.

These two have been great friends since they were wee ones.  Now he throws her in the pool and loves to carry her on his shoulder.  Wonder what the future holds here?

The end of a spectacular evening!  The men wooed the women with some awesome fireworks!

Ok, how many sentences is that in a row?  Guess I better stop while I am ahead.  There is thunder coming from the upstairs and too many boys in the house.  CALGON!


It’s that time of year…

Well Florida is getting warmer and warmer.  We’ve had several day of actual “beach” weather.  88 or above.

We ventured out to the beach this week as well as another trip to St. Augustine.  I love both places.  It was fun having company and also venturing out while learning.

We happened to be there at low tide and the tide just began to come in as we were leaving.  We found all sorts of treasures.  I have searched for the exact name of this particular starfish but with no luck.  It was purple with orange edges…just beautiful.

and we sported our do-rags…

I captured these two guys resting.  From all the dead sea life on the beach they were fat and happy…

The kids ran and played around.  I love the action in this shot…

Here’s the whole motley crew….

And one of my sweet friends with her son…

More of St. Augustine later…


Friends

Well, here we all are PLUS our very first babysitter we had when we moved to SC.  She was awesome.  The kids loved her.  I loved her.  We had her for years before she graduated, got married and moved away from us.  I remember her wedding in Charleston SC.  It was just beautiful and baby girl was really a baby back then.  Six years later we are privileged to find that her sister lives about 45 minutes from us in Florida so we get to see her now when she visits.  Yippee!!  Now she has a little one of her own who is walking and talking and going a mile a minute.  Somehow I hope chasing after my four has helped her in parenthood.

It’s so nice to have friends visit.  We’ve had several since we moved.  I love having friends just walk in the door and say hello.  We don’t have that here yet but the anticipation of friends from far away coming to see us is just as wonderful!!


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