Yes, it's been awhile. Yes, we're fine. I'm just lazy and busy and a whole bunch of other stuff that doesn't really make sense together, but lazy is a big part of it. Okay, lazy isn't totally fair. I've been the reverse of lazy because I've been going to the gym about six days a week and busting my behind and then when I get home I'm frantically trying to get everything done around the house. But that's not a good excuse for not writing, because it doesn't take me that long to sit down and do this in the evenings. That's when the lazy comes into play.
Anyway, we're doing fine. The kids are off for fall break, which is weird because it feels like they just started school. Oh yeah, they did. My neighbor and I figured out that they don't go to school for a month straight without at least one day off until the last month of school. They have some kind of break every month. Rough life. So Charlie had today off since it's one of those weird banking holidays and we were going to take a long weekend and make the seven hour drive to Mount Rushmore and check it out except that it's closed because of our stupid government. I'm not going to get into the politics of it all because I refuse to discuss politics with my dad, who reads this, and I don't like to talk about politics anyway. Yes, the federal government did finally say that the states could open the national parks and pay for them if they wanted to, but South Dakota decided they weren't going to open Mount Rushmore until today and we needed to be there yesterday. Of course. So instead we went to Colorado Springs for the millionth time (okay, like fifth, but it's the only place we ever seem to go) and went to the Cave of the Winds. It was a perfect day trip and a lot of fun and I'm not complaining but it still would have been cool to see four dead presidents carved into a mountain. You don't see that everyday, and certainly not as many times as I've seen Colorado Springs.
Today the kids and I made caramel apples. I'm not sure why I wanted to do that with them but I thought it would be fun. It wasn't. They fought over who would stir the caramels and who would dip their apples first and which apple belonged to whom. I hate it when they fight, because it usually ends with Sarah crying and whining about how nobody loves her and then I have to deal with that. When we finally tried to eat them they stuck to the wax paper even though I followed the directions. The kids didn't care but it was pretty messy. I couldn't remember ever making them as a kid (smart one, Mom) and then remembered that when I was a kid we just took those caramel circles and wrapped them around the apples. I'm not even sure how they ever stuck to the apples or melted or anything. Maybe they didn't. In the back of my head we didn't even wrap the caramel around the apples we just ate the caramel. My memory stinks so who knows. With all that Charlie and the kids started discussing how we would do it better next time so I guess I haven't found my way out of this one yet. Even thought they were droopy and filled with wax paper we did roll them in sprinkles and they were pretty good. Amanda really liked them but I'm not sure she even ate any of the apple, just scraped the caramel and sprinkles off with her teeth. Good thing the kids are going to the dentist next week (no, I couldn't get them an appointment this week, that would have been too easy with fall break and all).
So yeah, we're fine, all is good. We're healthy, the kids are doing great in school and, believe it or not, we have no complaints.
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