Erica’s Blog

T2 told me I was “the worst mom in the whole world!”

They both whined about being bored.

Jenna got stung by a bee again.  At least, that’s what we figure; she was favoring her front right foot, and we can see a tiny red spot where something poked into her.

After burning up the Interwebs, a gazillion emails, and much conversation, the plans ended up like this:

- We still arrive in Puerto Vallarta on the 12th and stay @ the beautiful condo till the 17th or so, with Sean’s BBQ 40th birthday party on the 14th.

- We set sail the 17th or 18th.

- Instead of pushing to get to Ensenada, however, we will take our time tooling up to Cabo, then ending at Guaymas/San Carlos.  This will be more of a vacation than the hard sailing to Ensenada would have been.

- From Guaymas, we hop on a “first-class bus” (I think that means only chickens, no goats) for an eight-hour, overnight ride to Phoenix.

- From Phoenix, we fly to San Diego.

- From San Diego, we take our originally-scheduled flight back home.

Whew! 

Unfortunately, I forgot to take my camera with me, but we were a bit of a sight this morning.  You see, today is our traditional “Jammie Day” for the first day of vacation.  Yes, we bathed, brushed teeth, etc., but we wear our jammies all day.  T2’s BFF, Karizma, came over to play (in her jammies, of course), and I took everyone out to IHOP for breakfast.  T1 is definitely going through a growth spurt — she ate 5 silver dollar pancakes, a piece of bacon, two scrambled eggs, and half of T2’s chocolate happy face pancake.  Yikes!

At the moment, they’re playing outside:

B/c T1’s teacher, Miss M, is getting married in August, a bunch of families chipped in together to get them a gift card for Williams-Sonoma, where they’re registered.  Her fiance Chris works for W-S as a chef, so we thought a gift card would best b/c his employee discount would give them more bang for their buck.  Thanks to everyone’s generosity, we were able to make Miss M jump when she saw the amount…$215.  She was so happy that she cried.  Chris was there, too, so he got to see it.

Kindergarten & first grade walked to the park as always for their traditional picnic.  Despite the wind & cold, they had a blast.