Blinded by the light

Don't ask where we've been or what we've been doing - I prefer not to discuss the blinding mayhem of the past few weeks other than to say IF we can get the new computer from Hell to work and IF Bill's techy Radiant guys can retrieve all the lost data and pictures (aahhh!!!)  from our old blue-screened computer and IF we can get any pictures from the past month off our camera and into our ever-crashing computer system, THEN I can re-enter the world of the blog. 

I promise that IF A, B, C and all the stars align THEN, and only then, will I be able to relate the wonderfully busy, emotional and memorable happenings of the past few weeks.  The end of Preschool, the end of Junior League, the end of Speech Therapy... lots of finishing moments.  

For now, know that we are all fine and well and immensely enjoying a "Daddy Week."  Bill has taken the week off work to hang out with the boys and me before we disappear for the summer.  

As we put the boys to bed at 9:52 tonight - after spending the night playing guitar and singing fun songs together - I finally feel like summer has arrived.  Oh, and I highly recommend the relaxed pace of a "staycation."  

I will leave you - for only a short while, I hope - with a quick chuckle from tonight.  While eating out on the patio of a Mexican restaurant tonight, we were discussing the enticing setting sun.  Bill tried to use the "teaching moment" and talk to the kids about why they should never look directly into the sun, emphasizing the damage that could happen to their eyes.  

To drive the point home, I added without thinking "Yeah, and you could go blind!"  As soon as it was out of my mouth, I saw Bill's laughter and I realized how stupid a comment it was - it didn't work for masturbation why would it work for setting suns?!  (Yeah, I said it.)  

As usual Brady had an instant response: 

"That's OK, Mommy.  If I were to be blinded by the sun, I could still TALK!"  

Well, Brady, as Uncle Michael once said:  You could talk a dog off a meat wagon!  

Hmmm.  I wonder to whom he was referring... 

Speak to ya'll soon!