Some more shots from our Florida trip. With a nod to the upcoming snowstorm coming tonight into Wednesday, I’m seriously considering hopping right back on a plane headed to Ft. Lauderdale airport. The kids are big enough to get themselves to and from school, right? I mean really. They have to grow up sometime.

After Timmy walked face (nose) first into the sliding glass doors-Twice- Hakka decided to put up the stop hand. It actually worked. Either that, or Timmy just figured out that he should probably not walk into the glass doors anymore. With the weather being cool, iffy and occassionally nice, the boys spent a lot of time on the balcony with their laptops, DS’s or Kindles. My most favorite view which is from the cafe where we have lunch every day. Yeah, it doesn’t suck. And you see that sandbar where the waves are breaking? On Monday when the boys were supposed to be in school, the 4 of us were standing out there in the middle of the ocean knee deep in warm, clear water at 1:05pm when they should have been in 7th period and Timmy would’ve been learning his letter of the week. The sandbar was much better. We finally had pool weather toward the end of vacation. It got so hot out two days that I even went in. New Years from the balcony. Timmy almost made it till midnight (he crashed hard in the livingroom chair at about 11:10pm). He did make it longer than John did, though! Seriously, with the amount of snow and freezing weather we’re having I’m not entirely sure that the 26 days we will be spending in Florida this year (not in a row) will be enough. In fact, I know it won’t be enough. I’m freeeeeeeeezing. Calgon, take me away.

1. Fell asleep last night in Timmy’s bed around 10pm, woke up in my bed around 11am this morning (hence the late blog post!) Now, THAT was sleep!! Guess I’m still catching up from last year’s lack of sleep.

2. We are all addicted to any electronic gadget. Ever. This is what the collection in Florida looked like. (Starting from the bottom) John’s laptop, my mom’s laptop, Patrick’s macbook, Jack’s macbook, my macbook pro, our ipad, my mom’s ipad, my mom’s kindle, my dad’s kindle, Jack’s Kindle, my Kindle, Timmy’s inherited kindle, Patrick’s kindle, John’s phone & blackberry, my blackberry, Mom & Dad’s droids, Patrick’s DS, Jack’s DS, Timmy’s DS, Jack’s phone. Can you even imagine the scene at airport security?  (and I just realized I forgot to add in the ipod touch to this picture). All of these gadgets makes me miss my grandpa. He was always, always up on the latest technology and had every gadget the moment it came out. I think he’d LOVE the ipad.

3. I really hemmed and hawed about getting the 11 year olds their own macbooks, but I’m glad I did. They used the desktop at home (which is ooooold and filled with viruses from all the crap they are downloading all the time) almost everyday for homework so I figured these would be used often. And they are. And hopefully, they’ll last them a while. A long while.

4. Sitting by the pool in Florida listening to some of the old folks music was actually quite nice- especially Moon River. Love that song. Realizing someday that I’ll be the old folks and wondering if the “kids” at the pool will enjoy listening to Echo and the Bunnymen or Depeche Mode from me.

5. Speaking of 80’s music- my friend Suzanne and I are putting together a big 80’s party for March. Details coming soon but I really hope you’ll all come. I think it’s going to be a blast!! And if any of you are interested in helping with the planning, please email or call me! Do you think anyone will actually show up??

6. Timmy calls God “the person after heaven”. I love that!!

7. Got the boys mid-quarter progress reports and they were fantastic as always. It does a mom’s heart good to see nothing but “student is a pleasure to teach” and “student is an asset to the class” on each progress report and report card.

Hope you all have a great Sunday!

So, I’m back from vacation. Technically. Physically and mentally I’m still not quite back. And I’m seriously contemplating going back to bed shortly once everyone is in school this morning. Why not, right?

When this is no longer the first thing you see in the morning, and all you see when you look out the window at home is NY brown & grey + snow for the forseeable future, going back to bed seems like a really good idea!

A few more pretty sunsets. It was so nice that it was light out until around 6pm. A little bible sky. Patrick always finds a flower and picks it just for me. A little golfing on the putting green. He was in the middle of telling me some story. As always! The first half of our trip was definitely chilly (for South Florida standards) and was not pool or beach weather at all. (It did improve the second half though!) John brought the boys and Hakka to the Dolphins game and a Heat game. I had 3 90 minute massages over the course of the trip and slept almost every day until 11am.  We hit all of our favorite restaurants (a few more than once). And now I’m freezing, dieting, and getting up at 7am. Yeah, vacation’s over.