The boys are at the babysitter’s, the camper’s loaded up, and Camping Adventure Number One has begun! See you next week, everybody! 🙂
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I’ve got sunshine
It’s another beautiful day here in Central Iowa! We’re still dealing with some flooding, but at least the rain has stopped coming every darn day. Unfortunately, that happened a little too late for a lot of people, some of my family among them. I’ve been adding pictures to my Flood of 2013 Pinterest board – the water levels are just amazing. Even now that the constant rain has stopped, more or less, the rivers and creeks are still awfully high. A lot of fields still have standing water in them.
But that’s not what this post is about. My brain is currently being pulled in three different directions, so today’s post is going to be light and pretty. That’s right, it’s another photo post! After all, who doesn’t love pictures?
“What? Haven’t you ever seen a guy eat cake before?”
A little bit of sunshine on a cloudy day. 🙂
No, it’s not blood. Someone had fun with the ketchup while Mommy’s back was turned.
And Cricket’s frown got turned upside down…literally! 🙂
Gotta love silly father-daughter pictures. She makes the best faces. 🙂
I don’t know why my face is in focus and Thumper’s face isn’t, but it’s still super cute.
So that’s a brief look at what we’ve been up to lately – eating cake, playing in ketchup, and making faces (and writing like mad when I can find a few minutes of silence). This weekend we leave for our first camping trip of the season and I’m looking forward to family togetherness and more camera fun. And my Tomcat will be returning from two weeks with his dad, which will make it extra special. So if I’m even more absent than normal in the coming days, zat’s why, my lovelies. I promise to return with pictures a-plenty and perhaps even a fish tale or two!
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I’m sunshiney!
This morning I awoke to the news that the lovely Kina Diaz DeLeon has nominated me for the Sunshine Blogger Award. Needless to say, I was beyond flattered (as I am every time someone nominates me for something like this). As with all things, there are some rules involved, and here they are: Continue reading
Caffeine system failure in three…two…one…
After a weekend spent mostly offline, I have finally almost caught up with everything that happened online over the weekend. I still have a ton of reading to catch up on, but other than that, I think I’ve managed to update myself on all things social. Maybe.
Zzzz.
I seem to be suffering from some serious sleep deprivation, though, as I can barely keep my eyes open. I barricaded myself in my room over the weekend with the a/c, my writing supplies, no internet, and plenty of caffeine so that I could get some work done on The Lokana Chronicles. My wonderful Seymour kindly took care of Cricket and Thumper and left me alone for the better part of 48 hours, but sadly, I didn’t accomplish nearly as much as I wanted. I made lots of progress, I just didn’t meet my goal, which was admittedly steep.
But! I feel like the progress I did make will vastly improve the story and it really felt wonderful to be writing again. Aside from blogging, I haven’t done much writing lately and I’ve missed it. It was mentally exhausting trying to figure out how to flesh out my story without making it seem like I was just throwing in a lot of filler, but the results are worth it, in my humble opinion (at least, I hope so).
And now, I must be getting back to the grindstone. My posts may be a bit more sporadic over the next couple of weeks; between revising The Lokana Chronicles and preparing for our next family camping adventure (coming this weekend to a campground near you!), I will be offline quite a bit for the next little while. But don’t worry – I’ll make sure to fill you in on all the adventures we have, as I’m sure there will be plenty!
Have a great week!
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Phlog along, folks!
The beautiful, if shallow, Upper Iowa River
Photo by Kay Kauffman
Once again, it’s Friday. Once again, it’s been a crazy week. Did I say crazy? I think maybe cray-zay might suit a little better. It all started Sunday. Sunday began the first-ever Kauffman Family Camping Extravaganza. Our adventure did not exactly get off to an auspicious start. For one thing, Seymour wanted to leave our house by 10:00 a.m. as the campground we were heading to was three hours away. His parents were going to go with us, but they live a good hour and a half south of us, so we couldn’t leave till they arrived at our house, and they were late. Seymour’s mama wasn’t feeling well, so his papa let her sleep in a little late and it was nearly noon by the time they made it to our house. I think we pulled out of our driveway somewhere around 12:30 p.m.
About an hour or so into the trip, possibly a little more, one of the tires on our camper blew out in spectacular fashion. There was no fixing this tire – it was in pieces all over the road. I should have taken a picture of it, but I didn’t think of it at the time. And apparently campers don’t come with spares standard the way cars do, but Seymour is a smart one and bought one when he picked up the camper, so he got the tire changed and we were soon back on the road.
I’m baa-aack…
…and I think I need a vacation from my vacation. Please excuse me while I go collapse into bed and sleep for a week.
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A short farewell, but not really
Are you confused yet? Worry not. What I mean is, I’ll be gone for a few days. After the week we’ve had, the fam and I need some time away from it all, so we’ve loaded up the trailer and we’re heading for the hills. It’s our first-ever family camping trip, something we’ve been planning for months and looking forward to since last fall. It will be four glorious days and three marvelous nights with no electronics, no diapers, no formula, no baby food, and somewhat less whining than normal as Cricket and Thumper will be staying with the world’s best ex-wife. Once they’re potty-trained, they can start coming with us but until then, I’m looking forward to a few days without diaper duty.
I plan to do a little fishing, a little writing, a little marshmallow-roasting, and have an all-around awesome time with my family. This week’s events served as a reminder of just how important family is. I love my family so very much and I am really looking forward to this time with them.
In the meantime, I’ve scheduled a few posts to tide you all over till I get back. Have a great week!
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Phlogalicious Friday
Fishing by Kay Kauffman
Welcome to the first in my Friday Phlog series! This week’s photo features an old picture of my oldest son, the Tominator (aka the Terrific Tomcat). This photo commemorates his very first fishing trip at his great-aunt Sandy’s house. She and her husband live in a beautiful gated community dotted with ponds that are kept fully stocked. When we were visiting them for their 25th anniversary luau (complete with un lechon – that’s roast suckling pig for those of you not in the know), my darling baby boy was treated to his first fishing trip in one of the ponds near Sandy’s gorgeous house.
Suddenly they all died. The end. 