How the heck are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?

Up at 3 am. can't sleep,  can't stop sneezing, nose won't stop running, eyes are streaming....what the hell have I got? cold? sinus infection? allergies?  All 3!!?? Ugh!

Anyway, watching useless TV and surfing the web.  realized I hadn't posted this nice picture of Sean and Cormac.  Cormac calls him 'pop pop' or something that sounds like that. They were sharing a morning coffee

'That's disgusting pop-pop!'

The letters T and G are very close to each other on a keyboard. This recently became all too apparent to me and consequently I will never be ending an email with the phrase "Regards" again.

The boys went camping early yesterday afternoon and left me all alone. For the first few hours, I was literally paralyzed with indecision over what to do. I knew I wanted to eat out (or get take out), see a movie, do some shopping..... In the end, it took me 3 hours to just pick up a salad and sandwich at the newly opened Panera, and then I went back home to watch some of the movies I've been buying and stacking on the player. I know.......pathetic......

This morning my cold/sinus infection that I've been fighting for nearly a week was worse so I curled up on the couch with my necessary electronics and remotes and gallons of hot tea. I did make a brief foray to the mall to shop because I couldn't waste all that free time. The first person I talked to at the mall - the girl at the makeup counter - told me to go home and get some rest. She could have just been honest and said that there's nothing she could do for me........

Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after DVDs? I don't want to have to restart my collection.

We took the kids back to the airport today.  I'm sure going to miss having that little mug around ...oh and I'll miss Cormac and Matt too.

Here's a movie that La took of us at the zoo.

So now we have our Sage with us again. She arrived today with extra luggage; she brought some dress up clothes.

"Aidric, you wanna play dress-up?"

"Sure!" says Aidric, having no idea what so ever what she's talking about.

Out of her bag come sparkly beribboned multicolored dresses, a tutu and some wands. Aidric looks at the colorful pile and says 'Yeah, I gotta go get my trucks'. He never came back...


A couple of other photos:

No, Mark and Matt wouldn't really drink those drinks, they borrowed them from
La and Jessica.....didn't they.......

The boys found a deer willing to hold still for them.

One smart deer just hung out under the food dispenser!

Cormac reflecting on his day at the San Diego Wild
Animal Park

Even if I knew your social security number, I wouldn't know what to do with it...

Went shopping with G'ma and Caro and Aidric today. Years of shopping have made me conclude that dressing rooms are designed by particularly cruel people. But after trying on clothes with those two skinny women, I realize that it's just me that dressing rooms are cruel to.......Although I'm the only one that actually bought anything.......how did that happen......