From the Infirmary to the Beach and Back

(The view of one of the counters in the condo while on vacation.)

This vacation has been rather interesting. It started right in the middle of what seemed to be a flu epidemic at home. We left Bowling Green with only one child (our friends' oldest) on TamiFlu. He was feeling much better by the time we arrived. However, Keaton quickly started coughing and began to run a temperature the evening we arrived. So we treated his symptoms the best we could with Children's Tylenol and Zyrtec. Thankfully his fever is back to normal but still has a runny nose.

On a trip to Wal-Mart to refill our supply of Children's Tylenol, our friend decided he needed some cough medicine. So we brought home some Delsum. By the way, it's really good stuff to treat a cough. Later that same night Rob started running a fever and needed cough medicine. Thank goodness we had something.

It seems like we have gone from the infirmary to the beach and back a few times this week. We have joked about our "medicine" bags and the amount of medicine we have had to dispense during our trip.

Jellyfish Sunday

Fall Break has begun! We headed out yesterday evening and made it to the beach really early this morning. We were hoping for a fun filled beautiful day at the beach. Instead we received rain, a little more rain and lots of jellyfish. We headed down to the beach between showers and the boys had a great time. Keaton was living it up hitting the waves when we noticed others on the beach looking very intensely at something in the sand. After checking it out, we realized there were lots and lots of jellyfish washing ashore. How in the world did Keaton and I miss them in the ocean I'll never know but am very grateful that we did. Who would want to get stung at all, but much less on the first day of vacation!?!

The boys had a great time helping Kevin catch the jellyfish. They had a system worked out. Kevin would use the net to catch them and then the boys would jab them with sticks and cover them with sand. It worked for them.

It's Been Way Too Long

For someone who enjoys blogging and reading other's blogs as much as I do, it has been way TOO long. I believe now is as gooda time as any to get back in the swing of things. I should really be grading papers and developing lesson plans, but who wants to work all the time?

Ok, so I finally grabbed the camera out of its hiding place. (You know I have to hide it from Keaton.) I am finally ready to upload pictures of the boys from the first day of school and low and behold, I can't figure out how to get just the one picture I want to upload to the computer. Now if I hadn't had to run outside after Keaton, who in his underwear wants to play out in the wet grass, I might have the patience to work long enough to figure it out. However, I have had to run get him back inside more than twice. The first time I actually let him play a while and then brought him back inside. Rob gave him a bath and wouldn't you know it, he tried to escape again on numerous occasions. In between his attempts to get out, he tried to help me with the uploading of the pictures. So, long story short...I'm not going to get the pictures uploaded, downloaded or whatever it is you call it at the moment. I think I'll just find something a bit less complicated to do for the rest of the evening.

Until next time,

What a busy couple of months....

I can't believe that I haven't found the time to update my blog lately. School started and that seems to take every available moment. There was a little time on a few weekends that I could have updated, but the boys and I went to Tompkinsville instead. We visited three weekends in a row after not going at all for the entire summer.

I just wanted to pop in for a brief minute and at least let you know that I was still here. I still have the boys first day of school picture to post but not tonight. Maybe I'll get that posted before I post their Halloween pictures.

Happy Fall Everyone!