Wednesday sounds about right...

Wednesday is a specific day at the lake, in the mountains, where there really isn’t anything that needs doing or calls you away.  It is the middle, when you are finally ON vacation.   Your body has relaxed, you stop fighting the urge to plan and count the days.  In fact the last 96 hours isn’t really divided between nights and days but smaller increments of time.  Such as reading time, drink time, play time, nap time, hungry time, and wow! It’s already dinner time…then it kinda repeats itself as you loose the ability of separating between Monday and Tuesday. 

I only know it is Wednesday because I checked.  Today was the day Natalie went fishing for the time.  Today is the day when I felt the towels needed washing and today was the day that Allison, not Natalie, was recognized as a Karaoke star!

Ben had a chance to fish today and he thought Natalie was ready to go.  I have to say I agreed with him, she is so fun to spend one on one time with.  She is finally able to have a conversation, and notice the quiet things.  She was willing and excited to go so she was sunscreened up and sent on her way with a hat, a camera, and a sand pail (in case she had to “go”).  They came back 4 hours later with 4 fish to eat!  She had no complaints!  She was proud and happy.  Not hurt, not sunburned, not crying and not complaining!  She did use the pail and thanked me for packing the baby wipes.  She is now inspecting dinner, which is in the sink and Ben drove off to “catch” some rice at the local store.

Ally and I had an adventure all our own.  After both girls sang their heart out at Karaoke last night; Twinkle, Twinkle, Love Story, God Bless America, and B-I-N-G-O.  They would like to think they’re somewhat famous, even if it is around the 32 families here at Elkin’s this week.  But something happened while washing the towels….Here we were, Ally and I wasting time at the washer and dryer and in walks a girl about 6.  She too had her turn at the mic last night.  She sang something cute, something from an earlier era…well she immediately saw Ally and said, “Good job singing Twinkle, Twinkle last night!”  Well that just struck Ally silly.  She could not believe she had a fan.  She thought it was “crazy mommy” that the girl at the washers knew her song!  Natalie heard the news and of course asked if she remembered her Taylor Swift hit?  Nope sorry Nat, every once and a while your baby sister will outshine you…we all get the spotlight for a little while.

And so I spend another awesome afternoon with my feet propped up, clicking on my laptop knowing the blogging is getting done and the memories are being made and Temecula can wait, first grade and bills, and phone calls and responsibility will all be there when we get back.  Until then we have several more nap times, playtimes, eating times, and “wow! It is way past your bedtime” times to pass us by.