Mama On The Move

Emily’s 23rd birthday has arrived!  Since she’s off in Texas and not here for us to celebrate with her, we have to find ways to make an impact on her far, far away. Last year we sang a song in a Hamilton style.  This year Katie picked another song she knows Emily loves - City Escape -and wrote lyrics to go with it.  Kerry and I found the song to be very fast paced and we despaired of learning it in time (we only had an hour).   After practicing while making dinner and trying about five separate times to record ourselves (at least one of us would flub it somehow).  We usually find the mess ups to be hilarious and try to include a few in the finished project.   We may not be the most talented singers on the planet but we sing with gusto and that's more important!

Katie’s been mixing her metaphors again.  This one popped out of her this week. Kerry was making a new recipe he had found for chicken.  He mentioned that he was only supposed to cook the chicken for 20 minutes.  I was skeptical.  “That doesn’t seem long enough,” I said.  “I don’t want to eat undercooked chicken.” Katie joined in,”Yeah, I think you’d better cook it an extra 10 minutes.” Kerry insisted the recipe called for 20 minutes in the oven and that’s what he was going to do. Katie responded, “Well, we’ll find out if it’s done soon enough.  And if it’s not, he made his bed, he can eat it!” 😂 The chicken was delicious by the way.

We took advantage of the lack of tourists on the island to spend a weekend at the Hale Koa in Waikiki. We usually avoid Honolulu as much as possible because the traffic is horrible, streets are crowded, and the wait to get into any restaurant is interminable.   But right now it's quite nice.  We spent a nice weekend walking around, checking out places we don't normally visit, just being tourists while everything is slow. On Saturday morning, Kerry and I got up and went for a walk, only to get caught in a sudden rainstorm.  All the normal paths back to our hotel were blocked off because they are limiting entrances to make sure only registered guests are on the grounds.  Where we normally could have scooted down a side path back to the hotel, this time we had to walk all the way around the hotel to the front entrance. We got very wet. Ben, Noelle, and Katie came down to have brunch with us.   Katie stayed and spent the night with us. We spent a lot of ti...

Ben and Noelle finally got an ultrasound which allowed them to see the baby clearly. And they were finally able to tell the gender! Baby Boy had his legs spread with great pride and was hiding nothing. When Noelle said, "It's a boy," the doctor responded, "That's not a boy, that's a MAN!" 

We are getting Katie's high school transcript together to send along with her college application.  She was looking over the classes she had taken and noted, "Archery, harp, and ballroom dance.  I sound like a medieval princess!"

This morning Katie was standing in the middle of the living room looking like she was deep in thought. She sighed, “I’m going to be twenty years old in three months.  I’m not sure I’m okay with that.” “I’m going to be fifty-five in two months,” I responded dryly. “Yeah, I’m okay with that ,” she chirped.