Let it snow!...

Ok I know that winter means COLD weather and a high chance of snow for about everyone outside the state of Florida. Yes we had snow flurries when I was in the 1st grade but that does not count. It melted before it touched my tongue! I have to tell you that this Floridian did not really see snow until she was 16 and even then she was very unprepared for it! My wardrobe consisted of t-shirts & shorts only to have a freak snowstorm hit our rustic cabin in the NC mountains. We had about 6 inches of snow that Spring Break. Needless to say I got majorly sick after that adventure! But at least I can say I saw snow! Now fast forward quite a few years to the winter of 2010. We've had some CRAZY CRAZY weather! For the amount of clothes we have layered upon ourselves we need something for our trouble! I think we deserve some snow! Approximately 3 hours North of us got some so why not share the wealth? I mean since Florida is NOT suppose to be so cold why not make it memorable one?! And to think they say there is global warming, ha! Something is going on but I doubt it's that! I started getting my hopes up today when it started raining. All you need is COLD weather & a little precipitation. We have the components so bring it on! Nothing like rain & cold weather to ruin a perfectly good Saturday! UGH! But if it snowed now that would turn even a bad day good! Now all of your northerners who get the snow I am sorry to complain. I just want the tribe to see what you all take for granted. If my wish comes true I promise not to complain again! (= Give me something to talk about! Give us some snow! We have the precipitation & the temperature is cold enough so why not let us get some benefit out of it!? The tribe needs some action down here & a good snow day would do just the trick! SO please Mother Nature please either give us our warm weather back or just...

Let it snow!...

rain rain go away!!!!

As I sit here typing It is pouring like you would not believe outside. You see this is Hurricane season for us Floridians & it seems like we are in for a different storm each week. We just had Tropical Storm Fay leave us & now Gustav is in our midst! Oh the trials & tribulations of living in SE Florida! Don't get me wrong, we NEED the rain but not all at once! Stop over Lake Okeechobee & give them the rain they need! Not over my house & make my backyard a lake!!! (I have included pictures of what our back yard looked like AFTER Fay) Now all we need is a boat! LOL! Our dirt road, yes we live in the sticks on a dirt road, is FLOODED! There is no place for the water to go when it downpours like this! We are now trapped inside this house we are slowly outgrowing! I peek outside to check the damage & notice that besides having a flooded yard I now need a good ladder. The storm brought down all kinds of pine needles which have clogged up our gutters so the water definitely has nowhere to go! Know anyone that makes baskets out of pine needles? I have plenty of them to give away! Some days I wish that we lived near civilization so I could take the babies outside after a good rain. So my yard would not get flooded & most importantly so I had a sidewalk that I could push my monster of a stroller down. But that is not to be. We are stuck inside for the duration. Let's hope that Gustav does not pose a threat & all we will have to do is watch the rain out the windows. Thank God we have Hurricane shutters! The easy kind that just slide out. Since Michael would get called in to work & I will most likely be here ALONE with the babe's if a storm were to come I am happy that we have them. I could never put up the "Old standard" like my mom had. Once the rain & wind leave then come the darn mosquitos. They are the WORST & they LOVE preying on the little one's. Poor Linz has been bitten one too many a time. She must be EXTRA sweet! LOL! It seems that I need to find some fun indoor activities for us to do. So as I sit here trapped inside our small house with the outside getting further flooded all I wish for is...

rain rain go away!!!!

bye,bye, fishy,fishy....

We lost our pet fish the other day! He/She was the best fish a person could have. It was a VERY rare fish, a red hawk fish! Not only did it do what other fish do meaning swim around the tank, it also would sit. Yes our Red Hawk fish would swim around and then take a load off & sit on a rock. It was one cool fish! I could stand at the edge of the tank & call "fishy, fishy" and he/she would swim over. It was SO cute! Michael told me not to name it. He said once a fish gets a name they die. I tend to think he LOVED the name & felt we were complete now that we had the babe's! As everyone who has multiples already knows having them is time consuming! Maybe we were SO busy in our quad life that we probably did not pay enough attention to our dear pet. The babies were just able to stand up next to the tank & point to "mr Fishy". They really LOVED him. I loved him too & shed a tear when Michael told me that he was gone. We were lucky & there will not be another "Mr Fishy", we will most likely not replace him. I told the babies as we passed by his tank on their way to bed, say...

"bye,bye fishy,fishy"....