Almost Famous

If you are coming here from Buffalo Spree please allow me to apologize for the place being such a wreck, had I known you were coming, I might have cleaned up a bit and maybe even, I don't know, UPDATED within the last few days. Welcome! I swear, as much as I might bitch about the chilliness, and the almost guaranteed bitching about snow, I do love the WNY area...I promise.

We spent the weekend prior to the 4th in Canada at the beach cottage. Those of you with children can understand why a weekend away from home was really not much fun at all. I can almost see a time in the future, a time when baby swings, diapers, monitors, walkers, bottles, cases of baby Motrin and much more, will be unnecessary. Those will be good times. Right now? Not so much.

Madeline took one look at the water and decided that under no circumstance would she permit being placed anywhere with a 5 mile radius of it. She took one step into the sand and had a breakdown so intense that the people sunning on the public beach looked over and gave me a look like, "If I weren't right in the middle of insuring future skin damage and possibly cancer, I would call social services on your ass. The nerve of you attempting to place your child in the sand. For fun! Psshht."

Andrew is working on his top two front teeth, so his weekend included screaming, drooling, fever, snot and no sleep.

A large part of our deciding to move here, other than having the support of our loving family only a few short miles away, was the possibility of going to the beach whenever we damn well felt like it. Ok well, it's Lake Erie, so going to the "beach" whenever we "damn well felt like it" would really be more like, only on the weekends, for about two months of the year, but STILL!

They were quite pleased to see us pull out of the driveway, that much I know.

Happy 4th of July to you and your families. I hope you are enjoying burgers and dogs on the grill, firecrackers, sparklers and huge beautiful fireworks. Here in WNY? We are enjoying rain.

I'm not complaining.

Comments

[hazelhazel]

I know how tough it is to REALLY relax with little ones around, even on vacation. It especially sucks to have Maddie hating the sand and water and the baby teething. Hang in there, it will get better eventually. When they are teenagers, they won't want to go at all :-(

[kirsten]

Sorry about the rain. July is like the only month we get here in Oregon without it. Your post makes me sort of miss it. Kidding, kidding.

Happy 4th!

[Chris]

Happy 4th. Sounds like yours was, uh, fun?

[Mom]

OMG Ju, you're famous. Funny, I know you're a terrific blogger and all, but I really thought it was your butt, I mean, your face that would get you noticed. See, it's good to be smart first, then beautiful. I love you Honey and I'm very proud of you. :-)
Saying prayers for a fun beach weekend for you before you have to retire the bikini. If genes have anything to do with it, you still got 21 good years ;-) Are you laughing?

[jen14221]

For most of us, lake Erie is the only beach we have ever known! Hey, while you might have high e coli levels or a piece of floating poop in the water, at least there are no sharks!