why_me_why_not | Sep. 11th, 2012

There were a lot of awesome things that happened last week, and between me & Jamie we probably have a couple thousand pictures to sort through. We played hundreds of games of go fish and rummy, as well as dozens of rounds of apples to apples and headbandz. After we visited the Wright Brothers Memorial, the beach house was littered with a gazillion colorful paper airplanes. We slept in until 8am one day, but most days we were up by 630 and running all day long. I didn't have ANY me-time, and only had one afternoon where it was just me & the boys, so I kinda feel like I need a vacation to recover from my vacation.

The kids started their school year yesterday, a week behind their peers (I had at least a dozen kids call my phone last week freaking out b/c the boys weren't at school) - Davey thinks he's something b/c he's a fifth grader, Ronnie started middle school (I was more nervous than he was), and Illiana started a half-day preschool program. Adventure!

I do have to tell yall a couple funny things while I'm thinking about it.

One of Davey's favorite things to say is "I like pie." Idk where he got that, but he says it randomly and often. So we were playing go fish and I always call him "monkey" or "monkeyface." Ava started doing it, but then apparently she forgot what she was going to call him and was like "um... I-like-pie-face!" So it kinda stuck.

On the way home Sunday, Davey said something about burgers, and I didn't know if he had seen a billboard or was sleep talking or what so I asked him what he said, and he goes, "Look at that hamburger with horns!" (The interstate passes a lot of cow fields. Maybe he was hungry? Lol. My kid, you guys.)

Tim still has my car. It was so weird to be following my car around all week, lol. I'm ready to have it back.

And I'll leave you with two links I found when I was playing catchup yesterday:

The Aftershock, a video about "the absolute truths of fandom" lol, found via