Where does he come up with this stuff?

Last night Ian and I went school shopping, who would of thought a boy could be so indecisive? The goal was to get a couple t-shirts and a sweat shirt, we ended up with nothing. After the waste of time shopping trip we went to Finley's for dinner where I had this conversation with Ian:

Ian: "there's this guy at dad's I think you'd like."
Me: "why do you say that."
Ian: "because he's lost like you."
Me: "what do you mean?"
Ian: "you know he says these things that he thinks are funny and he laughs and nobody gets it but him."

What do you say to that? Thanks Ian I love you too!

Summer 2009 #2

The boys and I spent our traditional week up-north with my mom & dad. The boys went with my brother and his grand-daughter over to Torch lake for an afternoon and all the kids got swimmers itch-I looked up on the Internet and now that I know what it is I'm kinda creeped out!

My mom & dad buy some fireworks on clearance each year and one night we have a fire and light them. Much fun!

We went to Pirates Cove in Traverse City again this year, it's a really neat family activity place. We played a game of mini golf and drove go carts. This year they added a zip cord thing-we decided to wait until next year to try that one. They also had this rope climbing course that Ian & Sean did. They seemed to really enjoy it. Ian said this part in the picture was a bit nerve racking-but he did it!

Summer 2009

It's been a really different summer: The boy's dad has been laid off so he's had them more, there has been a lot of one on one-I've liked that part. What I haven't liked is the lack of routine, I don't really like not knowing which kid or kids will be home from day to day. None of them (Rob included) seem to understand they need to keep me in the loop and that they really should ask me if there is anything else going on. Grrrr

Rob did take the boys on a road trip; they went to Ohio, Maryland, DC, Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky. They saw a lot of military stuff; battlegrounds, tanks, ships, etc.-Robs speciality. They also saw Mammoth Caves and the Smokey Mountains-now that stuff I like. (I hear Ian's favorite was the beach with the bikinied girls :)) They got to meet their great uncle Ray and his family-that was cool. All in all it was a good trip, but they were happy to come home which made a mom really missing her boys feel happy.

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