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Running Back?

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Ride on Beckett, ride on...

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Where else would you take someone who was born 9-9-99 on her birthday?

Happy Birthday Marina!

Happy birthday Mina!  What a cool day to turn 10 years old (9-9-09).  We love you!

Trash Can Chicken

Today we made our very first Trash Can Chicken.  Very Rednecky.

Start with a trash can and some charcoal (not very GREEN-I KNOW)

You will need one of these deals which you can buy here

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Fire up the coals and mount the bird. (easy people)

Put the HOT coals around the bottom and on top of the can...and wait

Carefully remove the can (must have experience in handling cans)

 

The Bird!

Dance Party

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Happy 12th Birthday Joelle!

We love you and are so very proud of you!

 

Our Fab Four

Audra took pictures of the kids last weekend.  Luckily she picked Saturday to do the photo shoot as Sunday was poopy weather!  She's still processing them, but sent me these beauties (of our beauties):









We sure got us some good lookin' kids!!!

You Say It's Your Birthday....

Happy Birthday to my best amiga and sister-in-law, Erin!



You are CRAZY GOOD!

Chauncey Creek Goofballs

We cruised creek side by Chauncey Creek Lobster pound yesterday. As you can see Will was all about entertaining his little "friends" who happened to be a pair of cute 6 year old girls. Nothing gets a POP like calling strangers "poo"..

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Base Hit for Marina!

Base Hit!, originally uploaded by K.Sea.

Marina on first after a base hit.

Joelle pitching

Joelle pitching, originally uploaded by K.Sea.

Our Blog Wordle

I found this web site called "Wordle" where you can plug in your blog URL and create "word clouds" - it basically gives greater prominence to the words that appear more frequently in your blog posts. 

If you have a blog of your own, try it!

HAPPY SIXTH BIRTHDAY, WILL!

Will is SIX YEARS OLD today!  Where, oh where does the time go?  It seems like yesterday he was turning five!

He's a super little boy who is kind, funny and smart.  He does well in school and is not a trouble maker. He cracks me up on a daily basis.  He was convinced that he was going to wake up this morning much taller than he was at five (in fact, he even showed me how he can clearly see over the island in the kitchen about a half hour ago).  He's loving - last night he said, "I love my baby brother."  Not too long ago he said to me, "Can you get me a drink, my love?"   And he adores his sisters.  He can't wait for Friday to come around so he can see them (and they can drive each other crazy).  And when they leave on Sunday, I almost always hear, "I miss the girls." 

His favorite thing besides his family is probably snacks.  The skinny kid lives for a good snack.  We stop at the gas station, "I want a snack."  He goes to the ball field, "I want a snack."  I go grocery shopping, "Did you get new snacks?" 

He more or less listens (okay, so he's not perfect) - in general he's just a good kid.  I love him. A lot.

*I would be remiss if I did not mention my father's birthday yesterday!  HAPPY BIRTHDAY PEPE/DAD!  We Love You!

Out of Africa

It’s been really difficult to fully process my trip to Africa, and specifically Ethiopia.  How do you recount a journey that felt as though it were a dream?  In the span of 24 hours I was on 3 different continents and then swaddled in the cradle of mankind for 9 days.  Ethiopia is like another world – how does one explain the sounds, the smells, the sights and the feelings accurately?  Words fail.  Even the incredible pictures Erin took only tell so much.  Sure, one can see the beautiful faces of the children, but you cannot smell them or hear them or touch them.  And all of that was so central to this trip.

We had a debriefing on Friday night before our flight home.  We were asked to share our thoughts on the trip - things that surprised us, stuck with us or touched us.  For me, the biggest surprise was how incredible the kids were.  It’s not that I thought they wouldn’t be, but not to the magnitude that they actually were.  These children would come up to you without hesitation, with their hand extended (other hand on their elbow in a sign of respect) and greet you.  They looked you in the eye.  We visited at least two orphanages/care points each day – we probably saw/touched over 500 kids.  I know for certain some of these children have HIV/AIDS; some of them had been beaten; some of them raped -  both boys and girls.  Most orphaned.  All destitute.

These kids gave me so much more than I gave them.  Sometimes I feel like, “What did I really do for these kids?’’  I mean really.  Yes, we played with them for a few hours, we hugged and kissed them, we gave out candy/stickers/bubbles/balloons, etc., but in the grand scheme of things, what did I do?  I didn’t change their lives, yet they changed mine forever.  There’s a video out there that Erin sent me, and it’s called, “I need Africa more than Africa needs me.”  It’s the truth.

And then there were those particular children that we made personal connections with – the ones that the minute you walked through the gate, they grabbed your hand.  You were theirs and they were yours.  It was constant hugs and kisses, and they would play with my hair, tell me they loved me, or … call me mother.  Or when one of them would look up at me with their big, beautiful brown eyes and ask, "Tomorrow?" in broken English.  And I had to tell them, "No."  There wouldn't be a tomorrow with them.  It was these connections that hurt my heart.  I miss the children.

Africa is beautiful…it gets under your skin.  It’s hard to describe unless you’ve been there.  I would urge anyone and everyone to go.  I missed my family immensely, but I would go again in a second.  And I hope someday to go back.  The last line in the video I mentioned above sums it up completely:

 “Because it is Africa that has taught me that possessions in my hands….will never be as valuable as peace in my heart.”

 

Following Wendy and Erin in Ethiopia

Here is a link to their blog:  Lobsters in the Rough  They are are updating regularly from Ethiopia.

Dad and kids are doing fine here in Maine.

Clock Ticking

Protecting





Collecting

 


Creating



Educating



Anticipating

Saturday Silly

10 Big Poopie Heads

1. A-Rod is a Big Poopie head

2. Rush Limbaugh is a Big Poopie Head

3. Manny is a Big Poopie Head

4. Chris Brown is a Big Poopie Head

5. Drew Peterson is a Big Poopie Head

6. Mel Gibson is a Big Poopie Head

7. Christian Bale is a Big Poopie head

8. Roger Clemens is a Big Poopie head

9. T.O. is a Big Poopie Head

10. Bernie Madoff is a Big Poopie Head

Beckett Basket

My blog nazi, I mean my "conscience", gave me a beat down nudge to update this blog.  Yeah, yeah.  I'm not like some people who update their blog every ten minutes.  Ahem. 

So, this is for you - and you know who YOU are.

 

This is a cute picture, right?  You might be asking yourself, "What's so great about this picture?  It's just a kid in a basket."  Well clams belong in baskets, not kids.  Come on people.

The story behind this is one day Will had taken this basket full of odd and ends off the shelf, and he took everything out of it.  I was trying to clean up and in a busy state said, "Will, put everything on the floor back in the basket."

Beckett was on the floor.  Kids.  They're so literal. 

The End.