Yes, I know, I have been a major slacker over the last month. So much so that my friend, Melanie, who sees me at least once a week and knows what is going on in my life informed me that I haven't been very active in the blogging department. If she noticed then I'm sure you have too. My excuses are weak. We've been busy, but we're always busy. Truly, I've just been lazy and with lazy comes the inability to think of something creative to write. On a plus, they kids haven't done anything out-of-the-ordinary crazy that makes me feel the need to write. So, here's just a summary of the last few weeks.
As a late birthday present, Charlie took Andy to Washington, D.C. Both kids decided they would rather take a one-on-one trip with either Mom or Dad for their birthday instead of a party, which was fine with us. Since Charlie works for an airline it's not that difficult or expensive to do. They went and saw a ton of stuff and had a blast and now Andy knows more than I do - we all knew that was going to happen anyway. I stayed home with the girls, and that was the weekend we got Sarah's hair cut and went to the Mother's Day tea. I can't remember what we did on Mother's Day, so it was either so horrible that I've blocked it from my mind or it was just an ordinary Sunday (probably the latter).
Two weeks later I took Sarah to Disney World for her birthday. We actually left on my birthday, but once you have kids your birthday doesn't really count anymore, especially if it is within two week so of your kid's birthday. They don't tell you that when you get pregnant, but it's the truth. The weekend was all about her so we did a character breakfast and went on all her favorite rides and got all princessed up at the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique. They put so much gel and shampoo on her hair she slept on it two nights and it still looked exactly the same. No joke. We had a great time and the only downer was that we got stuck in the Orlando airport on Monday due to a hail storm in Dallas. Makes sense, right? It does if you know how the airline works and fortunately after working there 10 years I do. Being stuck for an extra day wasn't too bad except Charlie was supposed to fly to London the night we got home so had to change it to a conference call from the house and have one of our babysitters come over at 6 a.m. to watch Amanda and make sure Andy got to school. Good times.
In the middle somewhere were lots of celebrations and ceremonies at school. We missed Sarah's preschool graduation while we were stuck in Orlando but I'm okay with that. She'll have a Kindergarten graduation next year and even that is a little over the top. I just don't see the need for it. Sarah's end of the year show was really great except for when her class was on stage. Of course. All the classes did these cute dances where they were shaking their hips and dancing around and her class sat on the opposite side of the stage from where we were sitting with Sarah in the back so we couldn't see her. Just to make it a little worse there were about four kids that did get to stand but they stood with their backs to us, blocking the rest of the class that was on the floor. So again I say at least we have next year.
For Memorial Day we went to Miami to see Charlie's mom and high school friends and make up for the trip we had to cancel in April. We went to the beach and a delicious and famous ice cream parlour called Jaxson's and only had three near accidents with the kids. One each. We're getting sloppy.
In between all the trips several activities ended and our lives became less crazy and rigidly scheduled. It sounds like a good thing but today was the first official day of summer vacation and I'm not so sure how I am going to last the next three months...hopefully I will emerge from my laziness and you will get to hear all about it.
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