I'm soooo full

There is something about being stuffed to the gills, full, to a point where you are practically sick that makes eating not look as attractive. :)

We ate lunch at the good old Chinese place of my youth... the best Chinese food I've ever had. We ran into my friends mom - who has worked there for ages. She said my good friend had just had her 2nd little boy 3 weeks ago. Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

Then after a long walk downtown and playing at the park, we stopped and got milkshakes at the best milkshake place ever.. :) and drove around down so the little ones could sleep. We showed Julia our old elementary schools, and even saw where the new stadium was being built.

:)

The nostalgia continues...

I'm settling in to life back in my hometown. It's hard to ignore the pull of nostalgia where every turn is indeed a memory. It doesn't hurt that I enjoyed growing up here, and don't have too many negative memories about the town I called home for a long time.

Things do change, and there is evidence of that here, but it isn't necessarily change in a bad direction.

I would love to make this area home for my children someday, but to be able to do that, the economony in the area needs to improve. There needs to a good job base for Dan to be able to live here without working for the one show in town.

My kids played at a park yesterday where I spent many, many days of my life watching my brother play little league baseball, swimming at the pool, and the shadows of my intermediate school.

Kids

My girls had the best time with their cousins yesterday - a blast. Even Emma loved watching them tear around and have fun. Julia and C-man played like long lost friends and never had a squabble between them. Anna caused a commotion trying to beat down the H with a Jack in the Box - but after that - even she mellowed out.

We had a great time at the Orchard and enjoyed the Fall sun. Even better was the Jimmy John's subs, my SILs awesome pot roast dinner and the apple pie for dessert.

So far so good...

Can you guess where we are???

Pop and water.... where oh where could we be?

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh

The lament of the blogger who desperately tries to post to her blog for 2 days... in honor of the mighty NaBloPoMo and is smacked down again and again by the system.

Seriously - I never would have thought in this day and age it would be so hard to blog!

We made it, have been doing the family thing, the sightseeing thing, and the eating thing.

I will continue to hang my head in shame.

Oh yeah - the lobsters made it too - and apparently they were damn yummy.