It's summer! Yay!

At my house, summer means that I have to constantly ferry the kids to and from the great Gulf Coast, which may not be so great anymore with all this oil mess, but I will save that for another blog.  As for now, I am riddled with the day to day drone of work and worrying about when the kids are coming to and from Nonna's house.  What I am trying to say is that "THEY LOVE IT THERE!".  Now, this is a good thing for them and for Nonna (if they are being sweet little angels instead of horrid deamons) but I miss them.  Yes, I miss the day to day bicker that accompanies such simple ordinary tasks as who takes a bath/shower first.  (This ordinary task has accumulated so much tormoil that we now have a "bath chart" inside our kitchen cabinet that says who takes a bath first on what day......UGH!).  Even though I miss the little terrorists, I mean angels, I have to agree that life on Nonna's farm is quite interesting.......

The kids have only been gone for like a week and a half.....not much time on the "mom needs a looooong break scale" and already the stories from the farm abound.  For instance, I am in receipt of pictures of both my angels holding sweet, freshly hatched, baby chicks.  The birth of said baby chicks caused quite a ruckus before they arrived since the older hens wanted to sit on the nest and the younger ones did too or some such........(it sounded so much better coming from Nonna).  Never the less, we now have little baby chicks and the kids are in heaven.  Drama Queen is in heaven in particular since anything baby to her is a reason to love.  Which brings me to my next point......

Since Lil Mama is so fond of having people touch her belly (NOT!!!), I decided that it would be just precious if Drama Queen made a point of touching Lil Mama's belly quite often.  Since Drama Queen is attached to all things baby, I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to give her a one-on-one connection to what is soon to be her cousin.  This plan however, backfired since Drama Queen went running for the hills at the thought of touching Lil Mama's belly.  WTH?????  She LOVES babies!  In fact, she worships them.  Her only response to my questions about why she wouldn't touch the baby is that she thought it was gross.  "Gross????  A baby????," I asked her.  She replied that she would hold the baby when "she is delivered" (like the stork is gonna bring her or something).  Having said all of that, I will let you know that I did finally get her to touch the belly of Lil Mama and I am not sure how she feels about it except that she thinks it is weird.  Game Head opted out of this little family nonsense and instead opted for a session on Runescape........ go figure.  After the "touch the belly" madness that played out (on facebook no less,) Lil Mama's status let us all know that she was chasing a chicken around Nonna's yard.  I guess one never does really escape the madness of Nonna's farm.  Truth be told, we wouldn't have it any other way. 

Now, I am off to a hike in the smokies since I am on vacation.  I am so excited I can't stand it!!!  I will have you all know that I am not leading this hike so there is very little chance of getting lost.  (I never say never).  In conjunction with the hike I have been waiting for all my life, Mr. H.B. and I are taking the opportunity to enjoy a little time together while the kids are at Nonna's so we rented a cabin.  I plan to do nothing for the next 6 days except sit in the hot tub and get wrinkled toes (except for the hiking of course).  Wish me luck on the hike.  If we get lost, I am totally opting out of the reponsibility of this one!!  If I don't come back, just assume that Martha Stewart finally found out that I was a threat and she pushed me off of the Alum Cave Bluff overlook.  At least I will be doing what I love ........;)