Like fish.

Not just a fishy, we opened a can of tuna, smell.

A dead fish smell.

And not just a dead fish smell, like out at the lake or by the pier.

No, a dead fish smell like the nasty thing has been lying out in the sun for the past two months.

A smell that would make a skunk sick.

One that is so bad it is reminding me of pregnancy sickness. You know that feeling in the pit of your stomach where you feel like if you throw up you will just feel better.

Why, you ask?

Well, while at the beach, Emily and Audrey hunted for the little oyster things that dig down in the sand as the waves come and go. They collected several animals, as they like to call them, and put them in a water bottle with their seashell finds.

Fast forward two weeks.

They were cleaning their room and apparently the water bottle got pushed under one of the beds. Wanting to look at all their beautiful shells, Emily opened the bottle.

I was folding towels and heard ewww’s and yuck’s like you would not believe.

As Emily nears me with water bottle in hand, I start smelling a faint smell. The closer she gets, I actually start paying attention to what she’s been trying to tell me.

 Especially, when I hear, all the little animals are dead.

She throws the bottle in the trash. INSIDE the house.

Between gagging and trying to not throw up, I tell her to get it out of this house RIGHT NOW!

The whole blame house stinks.

BAD. I wish I could do like a little scratch and sniff thing here on the blog to share the smell with you.

It is AWFUL!

I was searching in my inbox for my sitemeter information and do you know I have 1319 messages in my inbox! That’s just in my outlook mailbox.

Did ya miss me? I went to check my msn email.

I have 4661 messages in my msn inbox and 8826 messages in my homeschool group inbox.

That’s a total of 14,806 messages that I need to go through to find out what’s trash and what’s not.

I fuss at the girls all the time for saying this. And I always come back with a reply like, well, go clean your room. 

Yet, here I am thinking it, actually saying it too.

I have so much to do but none of it involves shopping. Only laundry and cleaning.

We do have to run out and pick up some stamps. Fun stuff!

If I could do anything I wanted today, I think I would go to Disney.

Yep, Disney.

I would just walk around and look. Try to see all the things we miss because we are hurrying from one ride to the next. I would go in every.single.store and look at every.single.item, for as long as I wanted to. Without the kids of course, because you can’t do that with kids. No, with kids you have to watch every move they make so they don’t break anything. Plus, they ask for like a million things, and get all upset with sad puppy dog eyes when you tell them no. Now that I think about it, that’s kinda how I act when I go shopping with David.

I would also ride my favorite ride, Carousel of Progress, like 10 times in a row. I love that ride. The first time I rode it I almost cried.  To me, it’s just a really sweet ride.

I almost cried on the Winnie-the-Pooh ride the last time we went. Sarah, was one and at the time she LOVED some Pooh Bear and just watching her brought happy tears to my eyes.

Looking back, I cry, or almost cry, a lot at Disney. The very first time we went we were riding the monorail thing, the castle came into view and I looked at the kids, just seeing their faces light up with excitement made me cry.

Going to Disney makes David cry too. Especially, when he has to pay the credit card bill. Kidding. Both times we have gone we said it was totally worth every penny spent. But I think I did see a tear or two as we were watching the Lights, Motor, Action show.

I would also try to figure out when and where you need to be standing to win a night in Cinderella’s castle. I SO want to spend the night in her beautiful home. Oh, it’s so pretty! 

The last thing I would do before finding the perfect seat to the most wonderful fireworks show on earth, would be ride Splash Mountain. For us, the best time to ride is at night. It is so awesome!

Can you tell I have Disney on my mind? We are going back in December and I.CANNOT.WAIT.
Each time we go, I try to talk David into moving to Florida. I even went as far to tell him we could work there as characters and when the girls are older they can just hang out. (I heard they make over $80,000 a year.) **edited to add** apparently we were a little misinformed about how much the characters make, oh, well, I’ll just have to find him another job in Florida**

I was thinking Cinderella and Prince Charming. But he said we would be a better Lilo and Stitch.

He’s so funny.

So, if you could spend your day anyway you wanted, what would you do?

2004

(see that finger covering the top of the castle? That’s Ron’s and he’ll not be taking our family picture next time)

2006

2006

David & Sarah