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2.) Whatta Dress!
3.) Feedback on eBay - would YOU buy from this seller?
4.) Anthill Plaster
5.) Leave it to Beaver - actual letter.
6.) Peonies on a Tabletop - a gorgeous photo from my favorite blog.
7.)
Taking Liberty: Car thief blunders
8). Housewifely Art
9).
Cox and Cox - Scrumptiously perfect goodies for your child
10). The Winnie the Pooh Bomber
11). Vintage Valise from Shop Parcel
12).
Stripy Monkey
I’ve been imagining this shirt for some time now, and finally got around to creating it. It’s kinda big and blousey (my husband thinks maternity - what do you think?) but I do need the extra fabric to disguise all my post-baby pounds. It’s a soft and comfy cotton and it stretches in all the right places. The long tunic length is great for covering the unsightly rear side. I’ll be making more for sure!
Doesn’t bath time make for the best-ever photo ops? Girls are contained and can’t run of the camera.
And you get to see soft little body parts which are generally kept bundled up and away from the cool air this time of year.
And that wonderful after bath calmness. It last right up till the time you start to lotion those warm and lavender scented bodies.
Spring may finally have reached the distant hills of Missouri. It’s a lovely sunny Monday morning! Kinsley is finally well, the house is in order, and we’re awaiting the arrival of Dan’s parent’s who will be meeting Little Sophie for the first time.
Isn’t this pattern fun? I love the idea of making one for each month of the year, with the darling embroidery patterns for each month, but alas, I am no good at embroidery, and I suspect that even if I were, it’s something I’d just never get around to. Somehow my wee ladies keep me too busy! So, on to eBay it has gone…
It’s a half apron, with a cumberbund style waistband. The pattern is on unmarked tissue. Included were detailed instructions, and twelve iron on embroidery patterns, one for each month of the year.
I even found the envelope interesting. It is marked with a stamped two-cent stamp, and says “PARADE” “Patterns by Pauline” in the return address. In the address slot, is a newspaper clipping which the addressee apparently clipped, filled out, and mailed to the company, in order to request this pattern. The vintage way of life just seems utterly charming and interesting to me!
The last day of Julie’s Colour Week. Sure was fun!
Appetizer
When you were a child, which crayon color was your favorite?
Blue. All shades of it!
Soup
On a scale of 1 to 10 (with 10 being highest), how likely would you be to change jobs if it required you to move?
Since I don’t have a job, that’s a difficult question to answer. But I do know I’d love to live in a new place just for the excitement of it all, but it’d be very hard to leave this town where my family is and has been for generations. I’d have to say and even 5.
Salad
Take all the numbers in your birthday and your phone number and add them up, one by one. What’s the total?
99
Main Course
Have you ever “re-gifted” anything? If so, what was it and who did you pass it on to?
Nope - but I wouldn’t be opposed to the idea!
Dessert
Name something you need from the store.
Pedialyte, Jello, Yogurt and Fruit Juice. All in an effort to make my tiny sick baby well again.
Thirteen things I learned from our trip to the emergency room last night…
1. Never say anything which you don’t intend to be taken very literally. For example, don’t say “I’ve been alternating Tylenol with warm baths and cool washcloths to lower her fever”. It will be misconstrued. You will be hearing things like “they have a religious issue with Tylenol” muttered from one nurse to another all evening long.
2. If you do make the mistake mentioned in number one, then the only possible way to rectify the situation is to swear your undying love for Tylenol as quickly as possible. “No - I have no problem with Tylenol - in fact, I love the stuff. Yup, dose ‘er up!” seemed to work for me.
3. When you are 18 months old, Old MacDonald Had a Farm can be a very comforting song. Even when sung while having blood drawn from your tiny arm, and through large hot tears running down your face.
4. People in strange blue suits cannot be trusted. If one ever comes into your room, make every effort to convince one or both of your parents to remove you from that room as quickly as possible.
5. X-ray machines ten to be very traumatic and indeed heartbreaking to an 18-month old.
6. If you are unfortunate enough to become acquainted with an x-ray machine, then anyone in your family can be comforting - even your three month old sister.
7. However, even if you call as loudly as your baby lungs allow, your baby sister may not be able to hear or respond to your pleas for help.
8. Another tactic which you may consider: in a very forceful voice, bade the nurses operating the x-ray machine a firm goodbye. Repeatedly. Remember to be polite but forceful. This has mixed results, and while it did not work for Kinsley last night, it is still worth attempting.
9. Just because nurses repeatedly offer to bring you a Popsicle, they probably will never actually get around to bringing one. Even if you ask nicely.
10. If the nurses need a urine sample - that will be the one time that you will not be able to pee.
11. The sticky tape on the top of the urine sample collection bag can be very painful to remove. It may cause apprehension anytime your diaper is changed, for quite some time.
12. There is a special clause to the law of gravity when one is in a hospital. This also applies to Walmart and other public places of dubious cleanliness. The clause is this: anytime a binkster falls from a baby’s mouth or hands, it must land nipple down.
13. When a baby has been poked, prodded, stuck, and otherwise traumatized for an evening, nothing sounds better to her than “my bed”!
~After a few days of severe illness, we phoned our emergency doctor’s office and were told that her symptoms sounded like meningitis and that we needed to take her to the emergency room. If it were meningitis, we might have only had a number of hours to react correctly. In the end, Kinsley did not have meningitis. In fact, she was diagnosed with a sore throat and a fever. It’s hard to say if I regret taking her in or not. On the one hand, I never thought I’d be one of those people who run to the ER for a sore throat and fever. On the other hand, she’d had a fever of 103*-105* for nearly 30 hours, and seemed to have neck pain and a suspicious rash one her neck, and the nurse was of the opinion that she was in danger of seizures at any moment from the fever alone. It’s nice to know that it’s not life threatening at this point.~
“Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.”
~Lemony Snicket
I am joining Julie of Handmaid this week in her Colour Week. Won’t you come and play?
This morning I was surrounded my so many soft and luscious pink things that I could not narrow it down to any less than ten pictures. Which I thought was pretty good since I took over fifty!
I guess this will count as my Wordless Wednesday post too!
Springtime
Oh, spring came to my garden
And caught it unaware
Wearing just a few old leaves
And a dejected air.
But when spring left my garden,
Its work so deftly done,
Many, many Daffodils
Were dancing in the sun.
-Velma D. BATES.
I am joining Julie of Handmaid this week in her Colour Week. Won’t you come and play?
I am joining Julie of Handmaid this week in her Colour Week. Won’t you come and play?
My newest, most favorite color in the world! Especially when combines with red. Red and turquoise, an unbeatable combination!
1) What is the capital city of New Mexico?
a. Albuquerque
b. Las Cruces
c. Sante Fe
2) What is the official state insect of New Mexico?
a. Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus)
b. Firefly (Poturis pensylvanica)
c. Tarantula Hawk Wasp (Pepsis formosa)
3) Which of these Native Americans was born in New Mexico?
a. Mangas Colradas
b. Geronimo
c. Cochise
4) Which of these rivers does not run through New Mexico?
a. The Rio Grande
b. The Colorado River
c. The Pecos River
5) What is the red symbol in the center of the New Mexico State flag?
a. A Maleewa
b. A Zia
c. A Castilla
6) Which of these is a nickname for New Mexico?
a. The Silver State
b. Land of Enchantment
c. Land of Shining Mountains
7) What is the highest point in New Mexico?
a. Wheeler Peak (13,161 feet)
b. Boundary Peak (13,140 feet)
c. Kings Peak (13,528 feet)
What is the official state question of New Mexico?
a. Hello or goodbye?
b. Sun or moon?
c. Red or green?
9) What is the motto of New Mexico?
a. To be, rather than to seem
b. Ever upward
c. It grows as it goes
10) The northwest corner of New Mexico touches three other states. This point is called Four Corners. What other states does New Mexico meet at Four Corners?
a. Colorado, Utah, Arizona
b. Colorado, Idaho, Arizona
c. Utah, Nevada, Arizona
See comments for answers…
“To say that Franklin seriously proposed the institution of daylight saving time is rather like saying that Jonathan Swift seriously proposed, in his “Modest Proposal,” that poor Irishwomen should sell their babies to rich Englishmen, to be eaten in place of roast suckling pig. The letter is really an example of American satire at its finest – it might have been written by Mark Twain 100 years later, or H. L. Mencken 50 years after that. It is hilarious. It concludes with a pure libertarian reductio ad absurdum of the idea that the state should enforce such an institution.” - Time Out of Mind - by Christopher M. Montalbano
Benjamin Franklin’s Essay on Daylight Saving
Letter to the Editor of The Journal of Paris, 1784
To THE AUTHORS of
The Journal of Paris
1784
MESSIEURS,
You often entertain us with accounts of new discoveries. Permit me to communicate to the public, through your paper, one that has lately been made by myself, and which I conceive may be of great utility.
I was the other evening in a grand company, where the new lamp of Messrs. Quinquet and Lange was introduced, and much admired for its splendour; but a general inquiry was made, whether the oil it consumed was not in proportion to the light it afforded, in which case there would be no saving in the use of it. No one present could satisfy us in that point, which all agreed ought to be known, it being a very desirable thing to lessen, if possible, the expense of lighting our apartments, when every other article of family expense was so much augmented.
I was pleased to see this general concern for economy, for I love economy exceedingly.
I went home, and to bed, three or four hours after midnight, with my head full of the subject. An accidental sudden noise waked me about six in the morning, when I was surprised to find my room filled with light; and I imagined at first, that a number of those lamps had been brought into it; but, rubbing my eyes, I perceived the light came in at the windows. I got up and looked out to see what might be the occasion of it, when I saw the sun just rising above the horizon, from whence he poured his rays plentifully into my chamber, my domestic having negligently omitted, the preceding evening, to close the shutters.
I looked at my watch, which goes very well, and found that it was but six o’clock; and still thinking it something extraordinary that the sun should rise so early, I looked into the almanac, where I found it to be the hour given for his rising on that day. I looked forward, too, and found he was to rise still earlier every day till towards the end of June; and that at no time in the year he retarded his rising so long as till eight o’clock. Your readers, who with me have never seen any signs of sunshine before noon, and seldom regard the astronomical part of the almanac, will be as much astonished as I was, when they hear of his rising so early; and especially when I assure them, that he gives light as soon as he rises. I am convinced of this. I am certain of my fact. One cannot be more certain of any fact. I saw it with my own eyes. And, having repeated this observation the three following mornings, I found always precisely the same result.
Yet it so happens, that when I speak of this discovery to others, I can easily perceive by their countenances, though they forbear expressing it in words, that they do not quite believe me. One, indeed, who is a learned natural philosopher, has assured me that I must certainly be mistaken as to the circumstance of the light coming into my room; for it being well known, as he says, that there could be no light abroad at that hour, it follows that none could enter from without; and that of consequence, my windows being accidentally left open, instead of letting in the light, had only served to let out the darkness; and he used many ingenious arguments to show me how I might, by that means, have been deceived. I owned that he puzzled me a little, but he did not satisfy me; and the subsequent observations I made, as above mentioned, confirmed me in my first opinion.
This event has given rise in my mind to several serious and important reflections. I considered that, if I had not been awakened so early in the morning, I should have slept six hours longer by the light of the sun, and in exchange have lived six hours the following night by candle-light; and, the latter being a much more expensive light than the former, my love of economy induced me to muster up what little arithmetic I was master of, and to make some calculations, which I shall give you, after observing that utility is, in my opinion the test of value in matters of invention, and that a discovery which can be applied to no use, or is not good for something, is good for nothing.
I took for the basis of my calculation the supposition that there are one hundred thousand families in Paris, and that these families consume in the night half a pound of bougies, or candles, per hour. I think this is a moderate allowance, taking one family with another; for though I believe some consume less, I know that many consume a great deal more. Then estimating seven hours per day as the medium quantity between the time of the sun’s rising and ours, he rising during the six following months from six to eight hours before noon, and there being seven hours of course per night in which we burn candles, the account will stand thus –
In the six months between the 20th of March and the 20th of September, there are
* Nights: 183
* Hours of each night in which we burn candles: 7
* Multiplication gives for the total number of hours: 1,281
* These 1,281 hours multiplied by 100,000, the number of inhabitants, give: 128,100,000
* One hundred twenty-eight millions and one hundred thousand hours, spent at Paris by candle-light, which, at half a pound of wax and tallow per hour, gives the weight of: 64,050,000
* Sixty-four millions and fifty thousand of pounds, which, estimating the whole at the medium price of thirty sols the pound, makes the sum of ninety-six millions and seventy-five thousand livres tournois: 96,075,000
An immense sum! that the city of Paris might save every year, by the economy of using sunshine instead of candles. If it should be said, that people are apt to be obstinately attached to old customs, and that it will be difficult to induce them to rise before noon, consequently my discovery can be of little use; I answer, Nil desperandum. I believe all who have common sense, as soon as they have learnt from this paper that it is daylight when the sun rises, will contrive to rise with him; and, to compel the rest, I would propose the following regulations; First. Let a tax be laid of a louis per window, on every window that is provided with shutters to keep out the light of the sun.
Second. Let the same salutary operation of police be made use of, to prevent our burning candles, that inclined us last winter to be more economical in burning wood; that is, let guards be placed in the shops of the wax and tallow chandlers, and no family be permitted to be supplied with more than one pound of candles per week.
Third. Let guards also be posted to stop all the coaches, &c. that would pass the streets after sunset, except those of physicians, surgeons, and midwives.
Fourth. Every morning, as soon as the sun rises, let all the bells in every church be set ringing; and if that is not sufficient, let cannon be fired in every street, to wake the sluggards effectually, and make them open their eyes to see their true interest.
All the difficulty will be in the first two or three days; after which the reformation will be as natural and easy as the present irregularity; for, ce n’est que le premier pas qui coûte. Oblige a man to rise at four in the morning, and it is more than probable he will go willingly to bed at eight in the evening; and, having had eight hours sleep, he will rise more willingly at four in the morning following. But this sum of ninety-six millions and seventy-five thousand livres is not the whole of what may be saved by my economical project. You may observe, that I have calculated upon only one half of the year, and much may be saved in the other, though the days are shorter. Besides, the immense stock of wax and tallow left unconsumed during the summer, will probably make candles much cheaper for the ensuing winter, and continue them cheaper as long as the proposed reformation shall be supported.
For the great benefit of this discovery, thus freely communicated and bestowed by me on the public, I demand neither place, pension, exclusive privilege, nor any other reward whatever. I expect only to have the honour of it. And yet I know there are little, envious minds, who will, as usual, deny me this and say, that my invention was known to the ancients, and perhaps they may bring passages out of the old books in proof of it. I will not dispute with these people, that the ancients knew not the sun would rise at certain hours; they possibly had, as we have, almanacs that predicted it; but it does not follow thence, that they knew he gave light as soon as he rose. This is what I claim as my discovery. If the ancients knew it, it might have been long since forgotten; for it certainly was unknown to the moderns, at least to the Parisians, which to prove, I need use but one plain simple argument. They are as well instructed judicious, and prudent a people as exist anywhere in the world all professing, like myself, to be lovers of economy; and, from the many heavy taxes required from them by the necessities of the state, have surely an abundant reason to be economical. I say it is impossible that so sensible a people, under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known, that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing. I am, &c.
A SUBSCRIBER
“It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you may talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and corruption such as you now meet if at all only in a nightmare.
All day long we are in some degree helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in light of these overwhelming possibilities it is with awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics.
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations – these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit – immortal horrors or everlasting splendours. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of the kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously – no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.
And our charity must be real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinners – no mere tolerance, or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment. Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. If he is your Christian neighbour, he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also Christ vere latitat, the glorifier and the glorified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden.”
C.S. Lewis, from “The Weight of Glory” sermon.
This is a actual pre-school test. Your choices are LEFT, or RIGHT. Not sure? Mofomon has got the answer…
I’m on a New Mexican kick, this week, as we’ve been thinking and planning for our trip there this summer. Also, Dan’s parents (who still live in Los Alamos) will be arriving for a visit sometime next week. So, our menu is greatly influenced by Dan’s childhood home this week. And you can expect several other New Mexico-related posts to come. I hope that Dan may even make a “guest appearance”, as this is really his forte, not mine.
Monday - Dinner at Mom and Dad’s
Tuesday - Carne Adovado
Wednesday - Pastel de Chile Verde
Thursday - Sopaipillas Rellenas
Friday - New Mexican Tacos
Appetizer
When you travel, which mode of transportation do you prefer?
Great question! When I was a teen-ager, we drove cross-country in an RV, and I loved it. Since having kids, I HATE traveling by car. I’ve only flown once, and I loved it, and I also loved a trip I once took via Amtrak. So, we’re trying to decide which way to go for this summer’s vacation. It’s looking like it’ll be plane, so far…
Soup
Have you ever met a blogging friend in person?
No, but there are several I would love to meet!
Salad
When was the last time you were really, really tired?
The night before last. I laid down to nurse the baby at about nine o’clock, and didn’t even wake up whan Dan put her in bed about two hours later!
Main Course
If you could have dinner with any one fictional character from a book or movie, who would it be?
Fictional? That’s no fun! I would love to have dinner with C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald, Alexander Whyte and J.R.R. Tolkien, if it could be non-fictional characters. What a dinner party that would be! Fiction - I think it’d be Bertie Wooster.
Dessert
Fill in the blank: One day, I hope to see _______________.
Scotland.
1. “Let them eat cake.” - Marie Antoinette
2. “Religion is the opiate of the masses” — Karl Marx. The communist philosopher’s full quote was: “Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.”
3. “Elementary, my dear Watson” — Sherlock Holmes. Author Arthur Conan Doyle never wrote these words for his pipe-smoking detective. The quote actually appeared in a film review in the New York Times in 1929.
3. “You dirty rat” — James Cagney. Anyone impersonating the Hollywood legend uses this phrase, even though it was never uttered by Cagney in any movie.
4. “Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him well.” — Hamlet. William Shakespeare’s line actually reads: “Alas poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.”
5. “Beam me up, Scotty” — Captain Kirk. The closest Star Trek’s captain came to using this phrase was “Beam us up, Mr Scott.”
6. “Me Tarzan, you Jane” — Tarzan. This phrase does not appear in any Tarzan film, nor in the book by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
7. “Spare the rod, spoil the child” — The Bible. The correct quote from Proverbs 13:24 is: “He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.”
8. “Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs, and should be arrested, exiled or hanged”
- Lincoln It was actually written by J. Michael Waller in a piece he wrote for Insight magazine in December of 2003.
9. “Blood, Sweat, and Tears” - Winston Churchill The correct quote: “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.”
10. “Everything that can be invented has been invented.” - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. patent office.
11. “Events, dear boy, events” - Harold Macmillan (the prime minister). This is reported-but-in-reality-never-made-response when asked to name the greatest difficulty facing a prime minister. He actually said: “The opposition of events.”
12. “Crisis? What crisis?” - James Callaghan, 1979 What he really said: “I don’t think other people in the world would share the view that there is mounting chaos.”
And while this is not a misquote it is a quote verbatum which is scarcely attributed to either Abraham Lincoln himself, or “The Spirit of Lincoln”, and so will be included in this collection.
13. I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is a physical difference between the two, which in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality; and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position. I have never said anything to the contrary… perfect social and political equality with the Negro is but a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse chestnut to be a chestnut horse… Free them, and make them politically and socially our equals? My own feelings will not admit of this . . . . We cannot, then, make them equals.” - Lincoln, August 21, 1858 Ottawa, Illinois
I just recently learned of a wonderful phenomenon which for some reason I have totally missed out on up till now.
I learned about no-knead bread from Amy of Angry Chicken.
Now, anyone who has followed this blog at all may remember that while good homemade artisan bread is my very most favoritist thing in the world to bake, my perfectionism makes it very hard for me to ever be pleased with the finished product. This bread, ladies and gentlemen, is the bomb.
Watch the video, and try it yourself!
Adapted from Jim Lahey, Sullivan Street Bakery
Time: About 1 1/2 hours plus 14 to 20 hours rising
- 3 cups all-purpose or bread flour, more for dusting
- 1/4 teaspoon instant yeast
- 1 1/4 [1 3/4] teaspoons salt
- Cornmeal or wheat bran as needed.
1. In a large bowl combine flour, yeast and salt. Add 1 5/8 [1 1/2] cups water, and stir until blended; dough will be shaggy and sticky. Cover bowl with plastic wrap. Let dough rest about 18, at warm room temperature, about 70 degrees.
2. Dough is ready when its surface is dotted with bubbles. Lightly flour a work surface and place dough on it; sprinkle it with a little more flour and fold it over on itself once or twice. Cover loosely with plastic wrap and let rest about 15 minutes.
3. Using just enough flour to keep dough from sticking to work surface or to your fingers, gently and quickly shape dough into a ball. Generously coat a cotton towel (not terry cloth) with flour, wheat bran or cornmeal; put dough seam side down on towel and dust with more flour, bran or cornmeal. Cover with another cotton towel and let rise for about 2 hours. When it is ready, dough will be more than double in size and will not readily spring back when poked with a finger.
4. At least a half-hour before dough is ready, heat oven to 450 degrees. Put a 6- to 8-quart [about a 4-quart pot is preferred] heavy covered pot (cast iron, enamel, Pyrex or ceramic) in oven as it heats. When dough is ready, carefully remove pot from oven. Slide your hand under towel and turn dough over into pot, seam side up; it may look like a mess, but that is O.K. Shake pan once or twice if dough is unevenly distributed; it will straighten out as it bakes. Cover with lid and bake 30 minutes, then remove lid and bake another 15 to 30 [10 or 15] minutes, until loaf is beautifully browned. Cool on a rack.
Yield: One 1 1/2-pound loaf.
I’ve always thought that the simplest ingredient list make the best bread!
The ladies at Five Minutes For Mom are giving away a Dyson Vacuum cleaner - all you have to do is sign in with Mr. Widget!
C’mon, join the fun!
I have the hardest time passing up cute printed t-shirts at thrift shops - even though I don’t care to wear prints myself. I have had these two t-shirts in my “thrifted for fabric” stash for months now and was finally inspired by a skirt in Garnet Hill.
My only regret is that the orange stripey t-shirt wasn’t big enough to get shorts out of it too - I’d love to have added built in shorts under the skirts.
My little brother is growing up. I was just telling Dan that you know you’re getting old when someone who’s diapers you changed is driving and starting his own business.
I’m so proud of Jared. He’s doing a wonderful job in the fine woodworking industry. He has been apprenticing with a local craftsman and family friend for a while now and is starting to deviate into his own forte a little bit. This is the first chair which we have had the honor of modeling for Uncle Jared and putting in our Etsy Shop.
1. Where did you go on your last vacation?
Our last trip was to Tennessee for an early Thanksgiving and the baptism of our youngest niece. But for some reason I’m hesitant to call our quick trips vacations. The last vacation we had where we were gone for more than three days was our honeymoon. And that was three and a half years ago (WoW!).
2. Would you go there again? Why or why not?
Oh yes!!! In fact we are this summer. On our honeymoon we drove to New Mexico (from MO) and stayed in my husband’s childhood home (his parents were off visiting family around the nation after our wedding). We went from there to Colorado and took the Narrow Gauge Railroad from Durango to Silverton. It was so wonderful!
3. How many vacations do you take in one year?
Well, we probably make one trip a year. But true vacation? Not even one!
4. Where would you REALLY like to go on your next vacation, if money was no issue, and how long would you stay?
We would visit Scotland. I think. I would love to stay in the Airth Castle. Though my husband also dreams of going back to Belize someday.
But really, I am thrilled to be able to go back to New Mexico this summer. We’re going to take the train this time, so that Dan and I will both be free to deal with the wee girls for the 19 hour trip. (Dan hates to fly, so it’s train or car for us!)
5. Do you put a little money aside each week (or month) to save up for your vacation?
Not really - but we do sell on eBay as a way of saving up for the trip.
