I'm Outta Here

I'm packing it up, folks. No, not the blog, though I will be changing my URL pretty soon. I have a work event and I will be gone until Wednesday evening. I'm leaving tomorrow morning. The good news? Well, I won't be too far from home, only about 60 miles away. But the work that my job entails will make me stay there through Wednesday evening so I will be shacked up in a luxury hotel. Though not as luxurious as it seems as I will be working my tail off the entire time.

Anyway, even though I KNOW he doesn't need it, please send Josh good thoughts as he will be managing two little terrors, er...the sweetest little girls on the planet, up until then. And the only reason I think it will be hard is because there have been a number of sleep issues lately. We have just gotten through two weeks of sickness in our house. One had a stomach bug and one had a cold, and then they did an exchange. Did you know that Costco sells Airborne now? We are already on our second pack from Costco...and have been dropping the liquid vitamin every 4 hours to try to keep away from these bugs. In any case, I know he will be fine, but I know that one adult for two children is very exhausting. And I will miss all three of them like crazy.

I won't be around for a few days on this blog, not that that's any big deal because I have been rather spotty lately anyway. Once I get through this week, it should hopefully go somewhat back to normal. Don't count on it though, as our six year anniversary is next Saturday and May holds oh so many get-a-ways.

So, here's something you might want to take a look at. Just a few videos. From the park. When viewing the last video, it is possible that you might think:

A) Quite possibly another candidate for America's Funniest Home Videos

B) I would NEVER let them babysit my kids

C) Is that really Olivia, or some mechanical puppet. I mean, c'mon look how quickly she makes a break for it.

D) They are living on the edge with those parenting skills, but at least they are letting their kids have fun.

Whatever your answer, you must know this. We are always very cautious. You want to know why? See what I wrote after the videos.







This one time. At the park. We let Olivia go down the big slide - the one you see Bea going down on her own. There was too much going on. We didn't have 100% attention. Olivia took off down the big slide. Yes, on her own. Have you ever watched the Olympics and the luge event? Well, picture that and someone wiping out. You know how they hit the sides of the run as they are wiping out? That was Olivia. At each curve she kind of got knocked up a little bit. She was ok. Totally ok. In fact, she went right down again with assistance. I did not videotape that.