HAPPY BIRTHDAY KARENA

Karena I hope you have a great Birthday. Make Tad take you somewhere nice. Love and kisses from all your Fort Wayne family!

Dolphins in Chokoloskee Bay

Check out my video of a dolphin feeding in the bay in front of our condo. Most of the action happens toward the end of the video, so be patient. Dolphin hunting is an art.

Sorry Kyle and Carrie. I was thinking you were in Pennsylvania. So scratch the Pennsylvania and add Tennessee. See I've already learned something. The calendar is now working, but I have to make it smaller and add the rest of the Birthdays. Please let me know any other special dates that you want added like anniversaries, when you start a new job, babies first poo. Things like that.

I am trying to embed a "Family Calendar" onto my site. That is what the blank white space is right now. I think Google is having an issue with it so maybe when they get it fixed, it will show up. Any who I want to use it for Birthdays, anniversaries, or whatever special events are coming up so that our entire family can stay in touch since we are all over the place. Right now I think we have family in: Ohio, Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, Georgia, Iowa, New York, California, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Arizona. That includes in-laws and out-laws. This could be huge!

Happy Birthday Bryan!

Today is my baby boys 27th Birthday. How time flies. I remember when he was little and he used to wear matching sweatpants and sweatshirts. He had a mullet which I loved! He was a good little boy, sensitive and kind. I remember he cried once when I stepped on an ant hill. Now he guns down Bambi. He's always been crazy and funny and inventive. He has big ideas and big goals which I have no doubt he will achieve. He had his moments during his teens when he made a few bad judgements but I always knew that at heart he was a good kid and he would pull through. He turned into a young man that any mother would be proud of. He is a great father! He makes people around him happy and sometimes crazy! He is one of the greatest joys of my life. He rewards me everyday by showing me love and respect and he actually cares enough to really know who I am. What more could a mother want. I Love You Bryan, Happy Birthday!

Bored

I'm bored and I want to go home! I can only ride my bike around the island so many times before I want to pull my hair out. I don't know why I am having such a hard time this year. I think it's because I don't have a project. Every project I think of requires supplies which I don't have and requires an 80 mile round trip to get. Plus my grand babies are growing up and I'm missing it! Does this sound like complaining? Well it is! That saying is true, you know the one...The grass is always greener on the other side. Here I am in Paradise and I am longing to go to gloomy Ft. Wayne. Crazy! Now I have to take my own advice which is "If you say something negative you have to counteract it by saying something positive to keep the Karma good". Sooooo........let's see......I know I can think of something........Oh yeah, the elevator works! (for now).

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.