So we're back to this again?

Looks like we're back to the monthly update again. Whoops. But you all know how life gets in the summer. Especially when the summer feels even shorter than it normally does! Or is it just me? Because I feel like this summer has just FLOWN by. My kids go back to school three weeks from today for crying out loud! How did that happen!? I mean, we've done a lot this summer. But I don't feel like we've done as much as we normally do. We've done the camping trips but not more than one a month. Last year we definitely went more often. I can't explain where all the time has gone but we've been booked up solid the entire summer!  Even our beach trips suffered.  We've only gone twice this year and last year we were there at least once a month.   But, what can you do.

Now we're preparing for our big trip to Florida.  YAY!!!!  Our first REAL family vacation in three years!  We're all SO excited.  We're heading to our timeshare down in Pompano Beach and I couldn't be any more excited if I tried.  We haven't been since Erynn was two years old.  I am SO looking forward to nothing but a week of laying out by the pool and relaxing.   And of COURSE a spa trip.  Clearly no trip would be complete without a trip to the spa for the girls LOL.  The Donaghy's are coming with us and that's like going with family so what could be better????  

Before you ask, yes we will be seeing my sister.  This should be interesting, to say the least.  I haven't seen her in just about two years and I only just started speaking to her - through email - about two months ago.  Sporadically at that.  I'm not ready to dive back into anything.  But.  The kids know that Auntie Cheryl lives in Florida and they don't know anything went on between us (and they shouldn't b/c it's none of their business) so obviously they want to see her.  It has nothing to do with them so I did the right thing and I let her know we are coming.  I told her that of course we should get together but I also told her that I wanted a full explanation of what went down two years ago.  That I deserved one.  She told me I would get one and she full on apologized.  Told me she was so sorry and that my cutting her off was her rock bottom.  That she was in a really bad place when everything happened and that she doesn't even remember sending me the email she did and doesn't even know what she wrote me.  Oh boy.  I'm honestly not surprised and I almost expected that.  I remember after the first horrific email she emailed again a week or two later asking why she hadn't heard from me.  Like nothing had happened.  I wondered if she'd fallen off her rocker.  I thought something was going on but I wasn't adressing it then b/c I was too upset at the initial email.  I needed to get away from that for a while.  So I did.  Regardless.  We'll be seeing each other in less than two weeks.  She's not going to be staying with us b/c I'm not ready for that but she and I will be going out to dinner alone where I told her, in no uncertain terms, that I expected and deserved a full confession.  That what's done is done but at the very least I deserved to know why I was treated so poorly.  She agreed and we'll see what happens. 

SO, back to our trip.  John, Neil and the four boys leave on the 16th.  They are driving down.  They'll stop somewhere on Saturday and spend the night.  Christy, Erynn and I will fly out on the 18th.  Cheryl will pick us up at the airport.  She'll either rent a room at our resort or at a hotel.  She'll stay for two days.  Then she goes back to work.   We are there for a week.  The boys leave on Saturday and the girls fly back home on Sunday.  Can't come fast enough as far as I'm concerned!!!   I even get a girl day / night with Erynn to boot!!  Life is good!!!

Kid-isms

It's been a while since I posted any of these but I've been writing them down!

Ryan: So, there's this girl named Hope in my class and she's the Awesomest!  If she stares at you it means she likes you.  Today she was staring at me.  That means she likes me. 
Me:  Blank stare.
Ryan:  Mom.  Why are you looking at me like that?
Me:  Because I love you.
Ryan:  And because I'm cute.  Yeah, I'm cute.

Aidan:  Mom.  I can't WAIT for the spelling test.  I am going to ROCK that spelling test like nobody's business. I am going to OWN it.  I can't wait!  I wish the test was today.  I wish we had school!!!

We took the kids to Outback for dinner with Mike and Brandon.  Erynn has tic tac toe on her kids menu and Ryan finds out.
Ryan: Wait, we have tic tac toe??
Brandon:  Yes, and Erynn already won.
Ryan:  Well played, Erynn.  Well played.

Erynn:  Last night when I was in my bed and Papa woke me up this morning I stretched out in my bed and I was super long like SUPER LONG!!!  How long am I anyway??

Ryan:  Mom, did you go for a run today?????
Me:  No, why?
Ryan:  Because you look like you lost weight!!
Me:  Thanks Ryan.
Ryan:  Mom!! No!  I really mean it!
Me:  I know Ryan, that's why I said thank you.
Ryan:  Oh.  Okay.  Because you look good.

This one might be the best one yet.  Hold on to your hats.
Ryan was at Papa's house apparantly flipping through the Victoria's Secret bathing suit catalogue.  It still comes to the house from when we were living there. 
So, he's flipping through and he says Wow, these girls look just like my Mom!! 
God love him.  First, I'd knock an old lady over to look like the girls in the VS catalogue.  Thanks buddy.  Just sayin.
So then Papa says to him, what are you doing over there?
Ryan turns and says Just looking.  A guy's gotta do what a guy's gotta do Papa. 
So, Papa tells me the story and I ask Ryan.  He just starts giggling.  When he says the a guy's gotta do what a guy's gotta do part I say well, I'm a girl, what does that mean?   He says a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do Mom!!  
Dear Lord help me with this child!  I don't know where he learned that or heard it but I am in TROUBLE with this one!!!