Thursday -Pet Shop Boys (Let's warm Matt up for tomorrow!)
😂😂😂😂😂 💞 😚 -K
We are coming to the end, and I don't happen to like endings. It reminds me of other endings I don't (and didn't) want to face..
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| My precious little guy in his special little nook. 💕 |
Oh, he is slowly coming into that in-between phase, and I can feel myself losing my last baby's childhood. Ugh!!! It's inevitable, and it is good. Still, I cry.
And I cherished this potential "last."
We had a bit of an awkward balance in the rooms, and I had to work out the problem of where Evan could sleep. He spends time with the teens/twenties half of the family, but he has too much little in him to hang 100%. We didn't have enough rooms to give him his own, so I had to be smart and think quickly. (Fortunately, making the kids happy tends to be my forte.)
I didn't want him to even know we didn't, naturally, have a plan for his room. So, I kicked it in high gear and scoured our vacation home. I can't remember if it was my idea or someone else joked, but we landed on the little closet in our bedroom. It had doors he could close, and I took the pillows from the living room couches to make a little bed, where he slept snuggled and content. With us/on his own...
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| Florabama was also a real treat. |
In the evenings, he would close the little doors, and we had to be careful about forgetting he was there, (I wonder what all this kid has overheard over the years. 😱😂) and those moments were some of the most endearing I will keep.
The next few days are a bit of a blur...
We had a canopy day at the beach...let's talk about that later.
We celebrated Father's Day at Alligator Alley...and I learned I have a really hard time buttoning shirts with this precious Kristen patience/attention disorder. Seriously. I think this was my third attempt, and each one before it turned out exactly the same. After awhile, I finally SLOWED DOWN and started at the bottom. (Right about the time we were leaving the place.)
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| Yours, truly. (sigh) Still so clueless sometimes. Clueless and/or impatient. |
Matt and I ended the date with a little celebration of him by, naturally, doing something I wanted to do. I found a free bike program and we headed to Gulf Shores State Park. I wish we'd had more time and energy. I probably picked the worst section of the trail - I mean, the bridge looked like so much fun, but it was a difficult ride!! And mostly by the highway. So, we went a "back way" to avoid the bridges and ended up riding the majority of the way back through a camp ground. Not exactly my idea of a "scenic ride", but we rode 20 miles together and got to see a tiny little alligator in the wild on the way home. So, again...I'm choosing to call this a win.
We had a bummer rain out the next day. Let's talk about that... It is, APPARENTLY, very hard to predict the weather in Gulf Shores. WARNING: every day your weather app will say "it's going to rain all day long and there is a rip tide warning." So...don't get out. Don't go to the beach!!
As it turns out, it does rain some of those days, but most of them are just fine. I honestly don't know what you are supposed to believe. Therefore, I just started assuming the best. You remember what they say about ASSUME, right?
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| It's a LOT easier to enjoy myself in the context of family, now that I am more comfortable within myself. Counseling is good. I don't care what the naysayers think. |
Suffice it to say, our zoo trip didn't work out. It really WAS going to rain all day this time. I was definitely wrong.
Fortunately, for me, we ended up stopping at the outlet mall nearby. We geeked out at the Play and Talk in Tangers, Foley. I got to play a totally rigged claw machine, but I don't consider it a waste of my $5. (I LOVE claw machines. I can hardly ever resist one. I can't explain...but kind of, I can.). We walked down one strip, and I found a Carter's store my kids begged me NOT to enter. (Jealous much???) I most definitely did. (And the party poopers gave me just barely enough time to buy a little something for all the precious babies in my life.).
Unfortunately, in all the excitement of picking out things for babies, I left my water bottle behind. Fortunately, I Amazon-ed myself the PERFECT replacement to greet me when I got home. So....BABIES!!!!!
I couldn't have been more content with our back up plan. Everyone was happy, and we had a really lovely evening back at the house.
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| The biggest alligator in the feeding we attended. So much fun!! |
And then came the last day...a bit of a crazy, muddled mess. (But I went to work to paste it all together into what I considered a beautiful collage.)
Unfortunately, it looks like we are going to head into Friday, and I don't even like the first song that comes to mind (I stand AGAINST that frame of thinking. I need love ALL days of the week.) And I won't even mention Matt's opinion of The Cure. So...maybe I'll do some research and find another title???
The end...for now.
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| But...can we PLEASE, just once, NOT with the 10 hour security check before every stinking event??? 😂 (He takes good care of us. Happy Father's Day to Matt! 🙌) |
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