Monday, August 2, 2010

Summer...




















As was to be expected the winter in Kansas City was quite a different story than the Savannah winter that we had been used to. I actually liked it, I liked the snow, I loved staying in at night with a fire going…loved bundling up in winter clothes…I missed Winter. And for as much as I liked the real snowy Winter of KC I also loved the first signs of Spring…there is just nothing like seeing the trees all come to life after everything has looked so dead, dead, dead in the snow. And then, for us 4 season people comes the next big hurrah…Summer!

We packed up and drove to Montana on the first of June. We were on our usual trek to spend Summer at our little cabin in the mountains. The car ride would suffice to be a blog in and of itself…after the first day Scott went to Target and bought one of those car DVD players….something I said I would never do…if definitely helped us get through. We had one more day to go in our trip and we stopped at a cheap hotel for the last sleep before we’d get to the cabin. It had gone well and we were almost there…it was our 5 year anniversary and we talked and talked at dinner about how well the trip had gone…we were exhausted but we’d made it…David and Jonathan destroyed the restaurant, flinging cottage cheese everywhere and we didn’t even care…we were almost there! (a large tip was left for the waiter AND busboy I should add)

At least we thought we were almost there…We woke at 3am to Jonathan crying like crazy and we realized that he was crying because David was sick, throwing up all over the place. Poor David, Mr. Squiggly, just curled up in a ball on our bed and sobbed in between projectile vomiting…we decided the best thing to do was to just pack up and drive the last 6 hours…and so we made it, poor David felt better the next day and the summer in Montana had begun…

Summer has gone well, the boys continue to grow and change. David has become so enamored by guitars that he can’t be around one without touching it…Ok, that sounds too mild...David has become so wild about guitars that he will do anything in his power to get next to one, touch it, strum it AND pretty much anything he has in his hands BECOMES a guitar and is strummed by his fingers that can't wait to, one day, know and play a real guitar...yes, thats more like it. Jonathan has become so enamored by shoes that he can’t be around a pair without wearing them. Same as above with D but insert shoes and instead of strumming...walking. And so there we are...and we wonder when they will start to talk, and we look at 3 year olds and wonder what next summer will be like, and we think a lot about the future but mostly we laugh and we play and we enjoy the now of this one Summer of 2010.

Getting Unstuck...

One of my favorite things to do is to read new blog postings...it is exciting to me to click on a site and find that there is a new title, a new picture...something new to read. And, on the other side, I do not like it when the same old page is displayed day after day after day...my thought is, "Come on people...write something, it only takes a minute!"

Well, first off, I probably have no right to think such a thought, first, because it does take me much longer than a minute and second, because I have not posted anything new for the better part of a year now. So, blog-shame on me...I'll own up to it...I've been stuck.

I guess I can blame perfectionist girl in me again for this one. I always feel like I have to have this perfect thought or stream of thoughts written down in order to share something. And so for a while I didn't have any momentous bloggy type thoughts and then when I did start to get some ideas again I didn't want to start back up with THOSE thoughts. I mean I left you with an impending trip/move to Kansas City and so I must pick up there...what happened? How was the move? What was the adventurous new undertaking like?

And there were some ideas...but then who wants to post a picture of the new house in the winter with all the dead looking trees and the snow? And there was some major moving in busyness...and who wants to blog when there is no time to blog? So, I waited for things to calm down and I waited for the perfect stream of thoughts until I realized...I just need to get unstuck. And that isn't going to happen by me chronologically blogging through this past year. It is what it is, lets just pick up and move on...and get unstuck. So here goes...