Condo Photos

Some of my loyal BLOG followers have requested photos of the condo not covered in a red tent. Click on the panther photo to see more.

Expectations!

There are high, low, reasonalbe, adaptive, unrealistic and even Great Expectations. When you get ready for a vacation, you have high expectations that the weather where you are going will be great and you will do all kinds of exciting and fun things. Anticipation is high and you are excited. You get to your destination and oh, lets just say your baby is sick and has diarrhea all over your clothes. Your expectations take a nose dive because well....that was unexpected. So, you adapt your expectations. You have a sick baby, but the weather is really great. Now you have reasonable expectations. You can hang out and just relax in the nice weather. Then it rains. Now, you guessed it...low expectations and disappointment. Then out of nowhere the baby starts feeling better and the sun comes out. Expectations now jump to unrealistic because you want to do everything in one day. Alas, the baby projectile vomits on you and expectations are at an all time low. I believe that is what is referred to as an emotional roller coaster. (Kind of like me when I'm un-medicated). Anyway, What was my point? Oh yeah...the moral of the story is; keep your expectations low and you might never be disappointed. That's not really the moral that would be silly. What I believe is have great expectations, be excited and anticipatory. Maybe you'll be disappointed, but that's ok. The more emotions and feelings you have the more alive you really are. Plus a perfect vacation would make for boring stories that no one wants to hear, but telling them about how your baby had diarrhea all over the flight attendant on the way home; that's funny.

Oh I almost forgot. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO ME AND JOE! 8 years today. So far Joe's lasted longer than the others. Ha Ha! He's so lucky. Happy St. Patrick's Day too. Wear green or get pinched.

Missing the Indiana boys! and Sarah too.

Julian and Nicholas are wearing sweaters that I crocheted. I'm so talented! I love my boys!

Life gets in the way

It seems like life always has a way of getting in the middle of what you really want to do. Amanda, Brad and Jaxon are here which is great, but Jaxon is sick. Stomach virus type stuff (I won't gross you out with the details). I am watching him sleep right now which is definitely what he needs. Brad and Joe are fishing. Hopefully Joe will find his way back home. Amanda and I were going to go to Naples but thought better of it since Jax is still not feeling good. Amanda just left to go to the pool. So I guess its not so bad after all. We all get what we want....Brad fishing, Amanda relaxing by the pool and I get time alone with my grand baby.

Oh yeah I promised you a new saying. I heard this from of a guy on Oprah. "Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want."