So nobody bit at my little tease yesterday, huh? No one?? {cue the crickets}

Well, I guess that should be a lesson for me to not do shameless teases. Lesson learned dear friends, lesson learned.

ANYWAY, after you all went crazy with speculation as to what I could have been lying to you about I was going to tell you that I’ve secretly been on vacation for the last week & a half. While you saw my blog posts & assumed I was still snug on my couch with a half drank cup of coffee & unbrushed teeth I was actually sunbathing on an island enjoying the BEST VACATION OF MY LIFE!
I would’ve told you we were leaving because I totally trust you but who I don’t trust is Joe McCreeperson who I’m sure trolls the mommy blogs & would’ve been all too tempted to sneak into our house & try on my underpants while he knew I was out of town because my blog said so. I’m on to you Joe. Stop being creepy.

We snuck off to a place called “Palm Island Resort”, it’s a beautiful island off the west coast of Florida around an 1hr & a half south of my hometown, Tampa. There are no cars allowed on the island, you take a ferry to get there & trade in your minivan for a golf cart. No grocery store so you stock your fridge at the beginning of the week & then the families all take turns grilling out by the pool every night. The island is mostly 1,2 or 3 bedroom condos right on the beach, it’s really the perfect place for multiple families to join in on a fabulous family vacay. But enough of that, now I’m going to treat you like the friend you are & make you look at my vacation photos. And you’re probably going to be bored but because you’re my friend you’re going to smile & nod & maybe even ask a question or two just to seem interested…

All beautiful sunsets & unicorns, hugs & kisses, perfect vacation, right? Well, apparently we must have been having too much fun because somebody put a joo-joo on us at the end of the trip…

1st my sister Rebecca fell off her golf cart & broke her leg & ankle! YIKES!! (although she does rock that cast, does she not?)

Then that very same night Sam got bit by a “buh-gee-do” (translation:mosquito) right under her eye. The next morning it swelled up her entire eye which I kind of expected but what I wasn’t expecting was for her tongue to swell too! PANIC PANIC PANIC!

Luckily while we were in route to head off the island & back to the hospital when the Benedryl I had given her kicked in & the swelling subsided. (Also I just picked up a scrip for an epi-pen (sp?) from the Dr today, looks like I’ll be making a little emergency bug bite travel case! Woohoo.)

I’ve been a completely depressed shlump since we’ve been back. I just want to go back! I’ve enjoyed vacations before but have always been ready to come back home. This one however I really, truly was sad to leave & I realize it’s because I had everything I wanted in one perfect place. No chores, no work, no phone calls…every morning was a lazy Saturday. Lay in bed with our kids, watch cartoons…no schedule. NO alarm clock. It was just us with our kids, family & friends & the biggest decision we had to make was should we go to the pool or beach next. Sigh.

I suppose it would get old at some point & I’m sure we’d drive each other crazy but one thing I am leaving this vacation with is that we work entirely too hard in this house & need to make more of an effort on the weekends to just say “screw it” & do something fun with our kids. Because really, they’re pretty darn awesome.

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