Looking forward to some down time

We’re too tired to blog, to think, to plan…our 4th of July vacation couldn’t be coming at a better time.  So, a few words and a few pics and I’m signing off for another 2 weeks.  Like last year, we’re craving time with our families.  We’re daydreaming about lazy days on Lake Tomahawk, Midwestern beef, and Culver’s custard (you cannot find frozen custard out here so craving is exactly what we’re doing).  We land in Rhinelander on Thursday afternoon.  It can’t come soon enough.

Greyson insists he’s going to tube this year (we’ll believe it when we see it; he wouldn’t get on a pony as tall as him yesterday).

Graham’s still smiling, still mellow and still not crawling nor showing any teeth.  Enjoy the photos and say a little prayer that our flight is uneventful and the weekend brings sunshine and heat to a Vitamin D-deficient, Wisconsin summer-craving, frazzled and ready-for-a-vacation family of 4.

Have a great week and a safe and relaxing holiday with friends and family. 

Cheers.

Graham’s bathtime= fresh mohawk

Greyson cannot resist a photo opportunity

Though Grey prefers to be in front of the lens, every now and then he’ll give up his spotlight get behind the camera  We’re pretending that Graham has the skills to take a picture- not bad!

Leavin’ on a jet plane

 

I’m on a plane to Baltimore as I write.  Technology makes it hard for us to take a break.  On this 5.5 hour flight (plus an hour on the tarmac while we waited for traffic to clear), I have wireless internet and a laptop battery life of 7 hours.  So much for a good book and a snooze.  I did clean up my email over the past 4 hours.  I’m down to 166 messages in my Inbox.  You don’t want to know how many I started with.  I once was organized.  I don’t remember when.

We took the kids to the Redmond Farmer’s Market on Saturday and the sunshine and fresh air got the best of Graham who fell asleep in his backpack while Mike was walking with him.  What a life, huh?

Greyson picked up a cold this weekend but he still managed to play “I broke my leg”.  On his legs?  Why, casts of course!

Really on his legs?  My delicate cashmere finger-less gloves.  Let’s hope he doesn’t decide to cut them off the way a doctor would.

This was a nice little break, pausing to blog.  I’m off to tweak my presentation notes.  Wish me luck.

(Is it the 4th of July yet? )

Everlasting Mess

I might have mentioned that Greyson is reading (i.e. we’re reading to him) Charlie & the Chocolate Factory.  Actually, we’re on the 2nd read at this point.  We’ve got him all jazzed up for How to Train Your Dragon as I’ve heard it’s Roald Dahl-like.

So, I was thinking about Willy Wonka and how much I LOVED the original movie when I was little.  Who am I kidding?  I still love it.  I actually like the movie better than the book and that’s not normal for me.  I wanted an everlasting gobstopper more than anything… ‘you can suck ‘em and suck ‘em and they’ll never get any smaller’.  That was then.  Today, the idea of an everlasting gobstopper grosses me out.  All I can picture is sticky hands and sticky faces.  And where the hell do you keep the thing when you’re not sucking on it?  Lay it on your bedside table?  2 years in and you’d need a crowbar to get the thing off and then what?  You start sucking on it again?  Sick!

GREY*isms*

• G: “Mom, I should have that box!”
• Me:  “Why should you have it?”
• G:  “Because I’m elderly”

*another one*

• G: (removing the napkin from his lap)  "I would prefer not to use a napkin tonight”

We had a really nice weekend with a gorgeous Saturday that made up for last week’s rain.  We all played outside, all day, and got really dirty.  We ended the night with a dinner picnic outside (we cleaned up first).

   

The rain and sun has done wonders for my vegetable/herb garden and our landscaping.  I can’t tell you what these flowers are…but they’re all growing in our yard (OK, I’m pretty sure the last one is a rose?)

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PS. Thanks to everyone who donated to the 8k that Mike and I ran a few weeks ago.  Our team raised over $3000 for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation!