No matter how I try, I can’t sleep past about 5am. I remember when I was a teenager I could sleep until 10 or 11 easy. I can’t even imagine that nowadays. The kids had a full day, (even though it was a half day at school), that finished late last night after basketball. Our eldest comes home a bit after 8:30 and is looking for dinner. By this time Mom and the littlest one are already upstairs in bed. We’re really blessed as we have 2 really good boys.
The oldest and I have begun talking about our long awaited summer camping trip. We’ve been talking about it for years but this year decided everyone is finally old enough to go. If we don’t start planning now, something will come up and it won’t happen. It’s really important that the kids get exposed to the outdoors at a young age. Of course Mom wants some kind of bathroom. (she’d like to go back to our friends fancy ranch!) It sure would be nice if we had a camper to go on the back of our pick up truck (sounds kind of red neck but the new campers are really nice) but they cost around $30,000 and would only get used a few times a year at best. Hence, no camper here. I guess Mom will have to do without a bathroom. The other option is to rent a small motorhome, let Mom sleep in there and we boys will sleep outside. Stay tuned as a few months from now I promise the post following the family camping trip will be one not to miss!
It’s going to be in the 60’s all weekend. This means lots of slush and mud from all the melting snow. Hopefully the warm weather will stick around for a while. We’re all ready for Spring around here. I checked the weather for next week from here to Phoenix to make sure all’s ok for my Moms drive down to Arizona. So far, it looks good.
Mom’s up and our 120 lb Malamute is shadowing her every move. He likes me but loves her! I have a feeling today is going to be a good day. We’re on the verge of something life changing happening to our family. My wife is working (for the past few months), on her secret new business idea (can’t tell you what it is so don’t ask) that she thinks will be embraced by women everywhere. She needs to raise a little capital (which won’t be easy) but I think she might have found a nice little niche developing a much needed product that’s useful and fashionable. Stay tuned as someday you’ll probably be reading about her in People or Vogue magazine. We’re sitting here trying to remember what our youngest said yesterday as when we heard him, we both looked at each other and said we have to put that in the blog! Of course now we can’t remember. Our boys are such characters, we always say they should be on TV. My wife’s childhood friend is a big time Los Angeles producer with Disney connections and we always joke that we should put them both in the “Disney Machine”. Probably best we don’t as all you have to do is turn on the news to see how those childhood stars turn out, can you say Lindsey Lohan!
Well, time to get some exercise and have my third cup of joe. (maybe I should pass on that!) I’ve had a headache all night I think because the heat was too high. Hopefully 30 minutes on the elliptical will get rid of it.
Have a good day and stay healthy.