My Day,

My day went like this. I woke up and got Mas & Sid off to school. I started making caramel apples for my visiting teaching ladies. Boston asked me to take him to school because their were girls bugging him at the bus stop. I refused. He could easily wait for the bus to come then run out and catch it. Bos Left. I went VTing. Had a new lady(Janene). She seems super cool. Talked too long, of course, so only had a few minutes to visit Heidi. Came home to find a big huge dog terd on my carpet! Gagged repeatedly, then contemplated committing doggy homicide or filing for divorce. Decided just to clean it up and as a "Chris owes me big reward" I went shopping for the rest of the day!

Good Luck Today, Love Ya Dad!

John Robert Bogle

Watcha doin? NOTHING!

My afternoon schedule now looks something like this.....

Monday: Repare the house from the crazy weekend we just had. That includes washing Mt. Laundrest! Chris school night. Which means he does not come home until about 10:30pm.

Tues: Here we go... Boston cross country. Then all three have soccer. Then Bos & Mas have scouts. Chris school night.

Wed: Sid dance class, Mason guitar lessons.

Thurs: Bos cross country. All three soccer.

Friday: Freeeee day!

Sat: start of crazy (but fun) weekend.

Sun: Day of rest? yeah right!


My rule of one activity, per kid, at a time has officially flown out the window. I am definately a novice at this crazy after school schedule business and I know a lot of you have it much worse. Any tips? Please know that I am not complaining. I feel pretty lucky that we get to do all this! I'm just a tad frightened!

Literally

I was just remembering a little conversation I had with Sid this past weekend. I thought it was pretty funny. We were walking down the boardwalk in Seaside like we do many times a year. Chris and the boys always stop to get elephant ears and corndogs. Well, they had closed down the corndog shop so they all went for elephant ears. Sidney didn't want anything.


Sid: Actually mom, I'll have a water.

Me: Ok, you sure you don't want to share an elephant ear with the boys?

Sid: ( squishy faced) No.

So then we go sit down. Chris, Joyce, Sid, and I were sitting together. She suddenly looks up at me and says...

Sid: Mom, is that really made from an elephant? I don't want to eat or kill an elephant!

After we all calmed down from laughing, we explained that it was made from bread dough and sugar, NOT ELEPHANTS! Boy was

Sid relieved. She did eventually taste it, but I don't think she could shake the image.

Late Night Fashion

After 10:00pm, these weird people always come over. Well Saturday these weird people had a fashion show in our beach house!

Our weekend

Friday, I was seriously looking for someone to shoot me. I didn't really have a great day. On Saturday things started looking up! That morning Sid and I went to the apple farm. They have a very fun little apple bouncy thing.
so Sid bounced and I bought apples. Very fun! Then we went to the cutest little country cafe for lunch. We have to go back because they had the best tasting grapes ever!

Then that afternoon we heard it was going to be 80 degrees at the beach, so we had to go! Chris's sister Joyce and her kids Zach and Catie met us at our house and we took off. Which beach? well....

We didn't go to Cannon for all its awesome shopping. NO!

We didn't go to Pacific city to use the four-wheelers on the dunes. NO!

We didn't go to Lincoln City for the best beaches ever. NO!

We went to Seaside for the TWIRL-A-WHIRL!!!


I think everyone (except me) rode it 6 or 7 times. They all had fun and no one vomited, so that was good.
There was also a huge car show in Seaside that weekend. Almost every car that drove by was the coolest car I've ever seen! All old timer cars of course. Oh,and some hot rods but those were dumb.
We ended up renting a house for the night because all the hotels were full. The house we got was super cool though. It was the first "well built house" in Seaside. It had a gorgeous garden and the inside was all covered in wainscoating. It was built in the late 1800's, and was awesome!

We did actually spend a lot of time on the beach too. It was so warm! Not the water, but the air.
We had fun watching Boston, Zach, and Mason skim board, finding shells, catching baby crabs. That was actually pretty gross. A couple of times when a big wave came in, as it would go back out you could see thousands of these disgusting little crabs trying to bury themselves in the sand. I only had to run out of the water screaming those two times though! Ugh, that gives me the shivers just thinking about it. And for some reason I could just forget they were there if I couldn't see them.

After the beach I went shopping while the rest of the group snuck in to the Trendwest pool that is right by the beach. Then I picked them up and we went to dinner. We ended up in this cool little Italian seafood/ Pizza place. I know that sounds weird, but it's not if you see it. It's adorable and very yummy. I got one of my beach food staples, Ciopini, which is all sorts of shell fish and whatever other kinds of fish they want thrown into a spicy tomato and veggie broth. So good!
We then drove around the gorgeous little town of Gearhart. It pretty much is where the rich people put there beach houses in Oregon. All huge wood shingled amazing beach homes. Someday, in my dreams, I'll have a house in Gearhart.

Way better in real life!

I think a lot of you know ( at least my OR friends) that I pretty much do whatever Darilyn does. Yesterday she had a wonderful idea. She wanted to go on the hike that Mahina had blogged about a few days ago. So, of course I went right along. We even suckered Mahina into going again (it really didn't take much). She also brought along her 2 youngest. It was amazing! This is why I just do whatever Darilyn tells me to do. I had so much fun! It really is a short little hike, but it has so many interesting features. A log jam to climb over, a (deep) stream to walk through, long logs to test your balance as you walk across, the highway(as LaLa calls it), and a beautiful waterfall at the end. This was a fabulous way to get out and enjoy another one of OR's many perks!

My turn

The kids all were awake way before their alarms buzzed. They had there clothes all laid out ready for them to throw over their sleepy heads. Brushed their teeth without my usual reminder. They ate a big breakfast (that just means a bigger bowl of cereal). Where are they going? Back to school!! Although Sid and Mas were in agreement that "the first day of school is kind of scary." They were all very excited! Even Boston, for the first time ever, was excited for school. I think it may have something to do with starting middle school. He's feeling very grown up.

Now I am enjoying my freakishly quiet day, and my house that may actually stay clean for a few hours.

Sand in my toes

Yesterday we went to the beach. We went to Lincoln City. Other than the extra hour drive because of Labor Day weekend traffic, It was one of my favorite beach trips yet. Although I think I might say that after every beach trip.

Farmer Joe

Today I channeled the hick side of me. I went and milked blueberries. What? You say you've never heard of milking blueberries? Well that is because I just made up the term. It is super late in the blueberry season. In fact the last day the farm was open. So all the good berries are low on the bushes because the top berries are fried. So you have to squat like you're milking a cow and then you just run your hand down the clump of berries and they fall into the bucket. Wallah, milking blueberries. Very fun, but hard on the joints. I guess I'm getting old.

After I left Blueberry Hill(clever aren't they). I drove over to the apple farm and picked up some fresh picked honey crisp apples and a couple heirloom tomatoes. mmmm!

Then I got a call from Darilyn saying she had some tomatoes from her garden for me so of course I drove right over. While I was there I weaseled some fresh picked green beans out of her.

My kitchen counter looks beautiful with all my farm fresh produce sprawled across the top.