Mama On The Move

Fifteen years ago today, I birthed a girl-cub. She was the first granddaughter on either side of our families. There was much rejoicing and she was showered with pink and ribbons and bows. And now she is a beautiful teenager who hates ribbons, bows, and pink. Happy Birthday to my Emily!!

Kerry and I went to Bellows Beach for a company BBQ.  I just want to sit in front of these pictures and stare.  I'm going to miss it here......

Well, maybe this isn't my first moving rant.  Ben says my first moving rant was along the lines of, "What the %#$*& do you mean our orders have been changed to Illinois?!?!?" But this is a bigger rant against a big company and I usually don't do this, but darn it, it has to be said. When we moved to Hawaii, getting the dogs here was our biggest stress.  Dogs can not be flown when the temperature is too high or too low because they are shipped as cargo in the hold where the pressure and the temperature are not regulated the way they are in the passenger cabin.  I was paranoid that we would get to the airport and they would tell us that it was too cold to board the dogs.  As it was, we were only a few degrees away from being told no.  There was still snow on the ground when we left Kansas although the temperature in Hawaii was fabulous. So in moving from Hawaii, we knew we might have to ship the dogs in April or May in order to get them off the island ...

While Ben and Emily were at camp, Kerry and I took Katie to Waikiki and rented an aqua-cycle.   That is Diamond Head in the background.  We hope to hike it soon. We are pairing down our list of things we want to do before we move. Aqua-cycle.  CHECK.

We ate at a new restaurant in Wahiawa this week.  Once you place your order the servers hand you a square box that lights up when your order is ready so you know to head back up to the counter and get your food. As we sat at the table, Katie placed the indicator on the table and stared at it as though mentally willing it to light up. "That won't help," I told her.  "Don't you know a watched pot never boils?" "No, Mama.  It's 'a watched page never loads '," Emily informed me. Ben chimed in, "And who would want to boil something in a pot when you've got a microwave ??"

My girls rock!