Bikes, Guns and Age

The Kissacks are in town again and we are all happy to see them again. We will be camping together in a few weeks, but the boys can't get enough cousin time. Life is running at breakneck speed but what is new. Amanda continues to pester and amaze us all. (she is doing it at this very moment 6 inches from me)

There is no news on Dania. (sad)

I am finally realize how old I am becoming. I used to take everything dangerous that happened in stride, but now I FREAK OUT at the sight of them racing around on their dirt bikes. I went down to the track tonight to watch them jump, and a couple of days ago I had to look away as they came racing up from the woods. The problem comes from the fact that they have long surpassed their MOTHER in the talent factor. When we were all riding together and I was still better then them I didn't worry so much, because we were all on the same level. Nathan is an awesome rider and teaches them well, and I recognize that he was once young and scared his mother as well and she is still living, so I know that I can survive as well. I might as well get used to the fact that we are a motorcycle family and I have three sons that will be approaching adolescence soon. I don't know very many moms that would be excited at the thought of boys on dirt bikes and teenagers on motorcycles.

I must say that the highlight of the last 2 weeks was when I entered a tactical shoot with Nathan at the local shooting range. There were 32 participants with only 3 of us being ladies and I placed 22nd. I beat the 2 other women and 7 guys. Nate was really proud of his gun toting wife, and I have to say that I had more fun than I thought I would. Nate came in 1st with his friend and employee coming in 3rd. I will try to enter again next month and improve my standing.

I am so busy with school this year. I can't believe that so many sahhm do this by themselves. 4 different grade levels is really hard to keep up with. I am so happy to have Tia helping me this year, it has made the trasition so much easier. My kids are really learning something, ain't that amazing.

Hilton Head

We just came back from a 4 night vacation to Hilton Head. This was our scheduled vacation, the one to Fla was a business trip/vacation. I have never been to HH before and found it quite charming. There are no street lights so it is pretty dark throughout the island at night. The beaches were fairly empty, and the ones that were there were retired folks or some young families. The best part about the island is that it is flat and filled with bike trails. We rented bikes for $12 a bike for the 3 days or $16-18 for the week. The beach was a mile away so we rode there almost everyday. We just shoved our towels in the little baskets on the bikes, threw in some water and sunscreen and were off. The best part of our trip was riding at night on the beach and on the golf course cart paths. You couldn't ride during the day, but night time was open. We sped around like it was a race track without any lights. It was definitely the riskiest this old lady has been in a while. The weather was perfect, I think we missed both of the hurricanes. The only down side was that I didn't get to sample any seafood. All the seafood restaurants that I saw a menu from were really pricey, and taking our crew of 5 out to the Golden Corral cost us a whopping $88 bucks. Four of us our eating adult sized entrees with only 2 still ordering from the kids menu, and sometimes even they aren't filled with those meals.