What happens when a blogger stops blogging?
The world doesn’t end…….
that i know. It’s a fact.
A writer never stops writing.
A cook never stops cooking.
Kids never stop whining.
{maybe one day they do….i’ll let you know}
I wish i had some sort of mighty plan that i was going to lay out here today ….
but nope….
i don’t have any newsworthy anything to blog about but here i am…..
peeking my head in to say hello….
and i realize it’s been months since i last blogged…
and it might be months more till you see another post….but today i am here.
hello….
I told a few of my friends that today i would blog…..
and that was a few weeks ago….and here we are the beginning of middle of August
so i’m pouring myself a cocktail since i just got home from work
and as i sit here there are a pile of dirty dishes in the sink….
a skinny margarita was what i just poured if you must know
{and yes….it’s my new drink of choice}
just so we are up front and honest from here on out….
this isn’t the blog for you if you have a problem with fine boxed wine.
or vodka
or tequila.
There are lots of amazing blogs out there where moms don’t drink or feed their kids gmo’s or
fake call into work sick or crash weddings or move their families to an island with no regrets….
or take photos of their kids pet mice or hijack the mannequin from work.
Tons of amazing blogs out there…..that don’t do that type of stuff.
I’m not one of those.
The Buicks are not that normal….we admit it.
not normal
as a matter of fact….
after just one week in his new private middle school…..Mason’s teacher up and quit.
not normal
It might have been due to the fact that Mason is a horror child……maybe
or it could have been the fact that 30 kids…a brand spanking new school and curriculum sent her over the edge.
Who knows…..
but today we have a new teacher and i feel good about it.
We feel good about it.…
and most importantly……life goes on right…..
this is our life
I just want you to know that i have not fallen off the deep end.
I’m here.
Life has taken over……we’ve had a great summer……and the kids started school this last Monday…..
a few weeks ago…..
which was a blessing.
I am not one of those moms that took a million photos and hash tagged them
#iblinkedandtheygrewup
#savoreverysinglemomentalwaysandforeverandeverandeverandever
#icannotbelieveihaveamiddleschooler
#donotbreathsavorohmygoodgodwheredidthetimego
I am not that mom.
pinkyswear
shoot me
right here and now.
I just want to make it clear.
we fall in lust
we fall in love
we get married
{or we don’t get married}
we make babies
{or we get dogs and cats}
if we have babies all that is embedded in our brains is that the time will fly and the next thing you know your
kid is getting married {or not} themselves and you wonder where that time went.
Whatever happened to just enjoying those moments and looking back on them with fond memories instead of
constantly saying…
“omgoodness….where did the time go”????
it goes people
faster than you can blink.
I think it makes us feel better……and now we can hash#tag everything with
#yesmykidsareoldenoughtomaketheirownbreakfast
I actually was excited for them to start school
I love my kids….i do….honest.
{and kudos and a million to you homeschooling momma’s out there}
but my kids belong in school and if it was a year round school then maybe you would have seen me
blogging a bit more but no….we had 2 months off and of course we did enjoy every minute of it….
but sheet howdy
summers around here can be long.
Groundhog day long.
Fin and Lola started right back at an elementary school somewhere in hawaii
3rd grade and 6th grade
not normal
who the hell gives out their kids elementary school name right?
i do.
waving her hand high….
guilty as charged.
Like you wouldn’t be able to find my kids
but trust me….you don’t want them.
Fin still doesn’t wear underwear and lola now wears boys shorts and Mason smirks and rolls his eyes……
and the last time i checked…..
they had been out of toothpaste for a month but considered brushing their teeth with just water and a toothbrush
A-Ok
not normal
The first day of school was amazing.
I woke up early….i sang….i took a shower….i might have even shaved my legs.
I made everyone lunch….i even made a pot of coffee and had 3 cups before even one child woke up.
The first day was beautiful.
I even had my 2nd annual Kauai moms and mimosas get together……
which officially tell me that we have been here 2 years.
2 years
sheet
The first day of school was beautiful.
I even went to work as usual….at 2 o’clock….and feeling mighty fine after 8 or 10 mimosas.
I am that girl
I think i even had my best sales day ever.
or not….hard to remember….
errrr
actually not…..i just double checked.
But those mimosas were good….damn good….and the kids were back in school.
That is till i got a phone call at work from bryan asking me if he should take Fin to the doctor
because his eye was swelling and the rash that he had on his belly was starting to spread.
He asked me why i sent him to school……
so i asked him if he wanted sex ever again.
not normal
The weekend before school started….Fin had what looked like bug bites on his stomach…..
and those bug bites spread a little so that on the first day of school he had 3 or 4 around one of his eyes.
By the end of the school day his eye was starting to swell and the bumps on his torso were looking raw.
Bryan took woogie to the doctor.
Bryan’s first time ever to take one of our kids to the doctor.
An award in heaven was given that day…..
Anyhoo……back to Woogie….
{think woogie from the movie “something about mary” }
we nearly put him on a plane to Molokai to go and live with the lepers.
Fin had blood work…was put on 2 different antibiotics missed the rest of the week of school….
and come to find out a week later that it was caused by the sap of a Mango
aka
mango sap rash
don’t google rashes……it’s not a good thing to do…trust me
but apparently the sap of a mango is the first cousin once removed to poison ivy.
As of today….Fin is back to being Fin…..and that’s a good thing.
We’ve made some great new friends over the course of the last few months……
and everything just seems to be falling into place.
What i’ve learned in the last few years…..and i can offically say YEARS now since we hit the two year mark
in the last few days is this:
we love our life….we do.
beach life suits us.
I love that i can get up in the morning at the crack ass of dawn and take them to jump off rocks into salt water
I love that i can take them on 8 mile hikes to waterfalls
not normal
i love that all three kids signed up for the Hanalei bay swim challenge and completed it…..
even though two of the three children go out and said they were never
ever
ever in the history of the world going to do that ever ever again.
But that day…they did it.
This summer we could only afford to send the kids to one week of tennis camp…..
apparently i was the only happy one that they were going to camp
not normal
On july 11th….
bryan and i hit our 15th year anniversary.
So we did what any normal couple would do on their anniversary…..
we tried to go out to dinner.
There is this chef named Justin and he bought a food truck and named it Kauai Ono...
rented some property in the middle of Hanalei
where he parks the food truck but 2 nights a week serves a 5 course dinner under a pop up tent.
Word on the beach was getting around and so i called to get us in.
Justin said it was a good week or two wait.
sheet.
That’s what i get for calling the week before our anniversary.
sheet sheet sheet
Then i emailed Justin on Wednesday
{the night before our anniversary}
and asked if he had any cancellations for the following night and he
got right back to me that he just had 2 cancellations for that night.
Wednesday.
It was 5:30 when he called.
Dinner was at 6:30.
We were at our pool making out we were watching the kids swim.
We had 45 minutes to shower…..feed the kids dinner….
get a movie situated for them
aka: meet our babysitter for the night
{and because it’s against social media law to actually say aloud that you left your kids at home alone
till after the fact that you actually did so}
not normal
I showered….but didn’t have time to blow dry my hair…..
quickly threw on something….i don’t remember what…
while i was making some Kraft mac n cheese and realized i didn’t even have milk….
so i used sour cream instead of milk and guess what????
no child even knew.
{the truth my hand is sitting on the bible……it worked and no one knew}
Bryan and i flew out of the house…..and last minute realized we didn’t have wine……
so i ran back into the house and looked at our empty box of fine wine so we had to bring out the good stuff.
I had photographed a family the week before that was visiting from Napa…..
and they surprised me with a real bottle of wine.
The kind of bottle that has a real top…the kind you pour from…..not the kind you twist the nozzle and it streams out of.
We arrived right at 6:28
not a minute late……but 2 minutes to spare.
I think we were the only locals that night…….
{we are allowed to call ourselves locals now that we’ve lived here 2 years….
my kids just confirmed that for me}
My hair was still wet….
and Bryan put his hands together started saying a little prayer
that there were would be little Mason jars on the table
for both wine and water to drink out of……
He seriously loves when i get up and start taking photos.
Ask him.
He loves that sheet.
One of the best parts of the evening was when we sat down and the couple sitting next to us
introduced themselves as blog readers.
i kid you not
SHEET
here we were on our 15 year anniversary dinner and we were sitting down with a couple that
knew everything about us…..but by the 2nd course…..
they knew that we were horrible parents by leaving our kids at home by themselves
and the facade was gone.
We couldn’t act fake and had to be normal.
We drank toooo much wine and had tooo much fun and made new friends under a tent in the middle of the pacific.
not normal
Here we are….back to the time at present.
It’s the middle of August…..almost the end…..
and life keeps puttering on for us.
