About me…

Well, nothing new…I’m OCD, have to be organized, have to have the house clean, have to have a list, have to be one step ahead of the game.  HAVE to be…which is why I haven’t blogged in a month…I’ve got too much going on and can’t focus…I’d really love to be able to sit down and just write this every day…write something, leave a note, share a smiley, write a short story…but I can’t…I’m at war with myself.  I.NEED.CONTROL.!!!  Which, if I’m ever going to finish that book I started that you all have told me to write, I need to lose some control!  You know the old saying, “Truth is stranger than fiction.”?…yeah, well, hmmmmm!!!  

I’m loving on my boys, missing the daddy and hoping that soon, SO soon, I will have some control back in my life…

Until then, I will continue being…

• the chef
• the dishwasher
• the butt wiper
• the play mate
• the disciplinarian
• the crazy mama
• the picture take
• the referee
• the phone caller
• the organizer
• the planner
• the buddy
• the meany
• the everything-that-needs-to-be-done-with-a-smile-on-my-face-I-have-no-other-choice-but-to-embrace-it mama!  (and I probably wouldn’t change that either…remember, I NEED CONTROL!)

A very special friend…

This is Albert…

This is the day we said good bye…(he knew…he had too…look at that face…)

Albert was our first baby…I saved him from dying back in December, 2004…we LOVED our little doggy doo and expected to have him around for a long long time…then little Z got sick and the doc said we had to give him away.  Lucky for us, a very good family friend was JUST looking for a dog just like ours, so we said good bye to Albert and sent him to live in San Diego.  By now, he’s lived with his new Daddy & Mommy for longer than he lived with us, but he’s still very special to us.  Last year, Albert got cancer and had to have his leg amputated and learn to walk all over…then they found more cancer and they had give him chemo.  But this little happy dude is STILL happy and he came to visit us at Mimi’s house for a couple of days.  The boys couldn’t wait to get there every day and play with Allllberd.  He was the same sweet little doggy we knew; it’s strange to remember this little guy who would run 5 miles with me on those TINY legs, panting and huffing, but keeping up.

We love you little Albert BooBoo!!!

My Sleepers

I sit here looking thru the photos of my sleepy boys and I can’t help but hear like a 3 Stooges theme song in my head…I mean, how do they do this?  We’ve dealt with jetlag and kicked that bugger in the butt…take these jetlag…and be damned! …

This summer air must do something to these boys!!…and I’m loving it, because today, I couldn’t WAIT for them to fall asleep at 6:30 PM…THANK GOD…because this is was me at 4:39 PM…

Summer? Where did you go?

I’m sitting here and it’s almost AUGUST?!  Seriously, I have no idea where summer went…I’m a little bit bummed, because I really heart summer…the long days, the warm nights, the fun times with friends, the road trips, the pool days…wait, that pretty much sums up what happened to summer.

We’ve EAR deep in friends visiting us…not that I am complaining!!  It is has been wonderful to see so many faces, share so many hugs and catch up on so many laughs!  I’ve had friends I’ve known for 35 years come to the desert to see us…friends we met on our honeymoon…friends I’ve known since Zachary was a baby…what I’m trying to say is, we are feeling the love!!!  I can’t even tell how many pool days and how many pools we’ve visited in the past 2 months…but I’m not complaining!

This was us 20 years ago on the left…our first visit home after our first semester of college…where do the years go???

It’s been wonderful catching up, eating guacamole, checking out the Jackalope Ranch, mixing mojitos at the La Quinta Resort Pool, falling and getting booboos, ripping off toenails, toasting marshmallows, late beach nights and everything in between…

more to come…