& that's the way life goes

We carved our pumpkins last night!

I bought Liko a little squirrel costume at Target awhile ago.

And lastly, here is the final picture before the big halloween reveal.  hehe.  Honestly, it’s not a very creative costume on it’s own, but paired with C’s I hope you guys will laugh about it.

I tried to post this last night but of course my blog was down…

(counting to 10…)

he has no shame

And he was cute and adorable last night.  At 5am this morning he woke me up smacking his lips for like an hour.  Why?  Because at 5:45am I heard him puking in the living room.    He threw up a shoe lace.  A whole motherfucking shoelace.

Sick.

…still be upset I got overlooked for the 20sb blog swap for the SECOND time in a row
…think about the basement flooding because our power is out and the sump pump isn’t working
…let C’s crabbiness get to me
…feel self conscious because my hair is a little scary b/c I coudn’t use my straightener or my hair dryer
…think about MA leaving our office to go work at GOOGLE in California (psshhhh)

I will give you some more pictures from our up north vaca (which we will be going on again in a week!!)

Liko found a "suite" in the bow of the boat

Scooby looking out on lake huron in Oscoda

chillin with 'dad'

relaxin on the boat

Nani's driving with C (he's her favorite)

It was a little chilly

I’m back!  Thank you Amy and Ashley for guest posting for me!

I had the most tranquil weekend I think I’ve had in my life.

Amazing because there were some hiccups.  But nothing seemed to get to me.  I literally was at 100% peace.  Even though,

Tawas Bay

• I had some flashbacks, nostalgia, visions of an alternate life
• We lost power the first night we were there after spending $80 at the grocery store (luckily it came back on before anything went bad)
• Scooby jumped off the boat at the pier and wanted to play with 5 mini yorkies that turned agressive on themselves and their owner was freaking out (this could have been WAY worse than it was)
• The van broke down as we were getting on I75 and we had to call a tow truck and wait at the dealership for a couple hours for them to fix the problem, thus incurring $400 we weren’t expecting to spend

I still can’t believe how easy everything seemed, even when things went bad.  I wondered for a second if these things were bad karma for me, because you know I deserve some bad karma, but I don’t really think so.  I kind of just coasted this weekend, let things come as they might and dealt with them.

waiting at the Chevy dealer for the van

I didn’t even feel a bit of irritation when we got on the freeway and promptly had to pull over when C knew we should have gotten it fixed in Tawas.

Liko’s insistent whining couldn’t even break the calm.  I’m not sure who that person was up there but I hope she sticks around.

I have a secret too.  Every single time I’m up there I don’t want to leave.  I just want to be.  I want a simple life.  One that allows me to take Nani out to the water on a whim to watch her eyes become excited when she sees the water.   It feels like home up there.    I don’t feel rushed and I don’t feel pulled in 100 different directions.  I just am.

I didn’t have internet withdrawals like I thought I might and we didn’t have a tv but I was perfectly content with reading a book and just relaxing.

Of all the places I’ve been this might have been the most relaxing vacation I’ve ever had.

I’m still in my zen-like state today, but I also don’t feel like talking with anyone.

*more pictures to come  

Here a few more pictures from the long weekend.  It was one of those weekends that felt really long but  the moment you were back to work on Monday it’s was obviously WAY, WAY too short.  We did get a lot done so I guess we were at least accomplished!

always time to chill with dogs in the back of the van

When Sarah asked me about a favorite restaurant my response was that I  really wanted to try Slow’s BBQ in Corktown.   Her and Supergirl both said it was delicious and I needed to go ASAP.  So last Friday, we did.  It was perfect because they weren’t busy since it we went in the middle of the afternoon.  And yes, the food was delicious.  I was so hungry I didn’t take any pictures of the actual mouthwatering food, but I did take some to pass the time before it arrived.