To me there is nothing better than going home. I love to be able to spend time with my family that I don't get to see that often. I love the quietness of the town. I love that i can take my kids to the movies for $4.00. I also love that I can leave my kids alone at the movies and they are perfectly fine! I love that I can cruise and get a coke with crushed ice from the station any time I want. I love that I drive 35 and feel like it is going fast. I love that I run in to old friends from school. I love arriving at my parents house and the excitement I feel to see them for the first time. I love sleeping at their house, which used to be my grandmas. I still sleep in the same room that I used to sleep in so many years ago. I love that there are lots of pictures of my grandma above the bed and I can sit and look at her and remember all the many things we did together. I miss her so much! I love when I go home that my stresses are minimized and I don't think of anything but love and fun with family. I love to drive by the house we bought there and dream of someday it being finished and me being able to stay summers there! I love to see my kids happy playing with cousins! I know that people think this town is a small rinky town with nothing to offer, but to me it is everything. All my memories are from there. I love that Santa used to fly in to town and then drive down main to give us candy. I love that they used to shut down main street at Halloween time for all the kids to walk down main in their costumes and win prizes for them. I love that they town supports sports and are such fabulous fans. I love that my family hasn't left and I can still go home. I love the blue blue skies and the puffy clouds. I used to spend lots of time at the park when I was younger and lay in the grass and just stare at the clouds. Something my grandma cowley used to spend time doing with me. I could go on and on with my feelings. It really is almost euphoric to me driving over grovers hill! I had a fabulous time the few days that I was there! Another great memory!
The first day of our trip I asked the kids what they wanted to do and they both wanted to go to the skate park. There is a new skate park in town. They especially loved it because everyone else in town was in school and they had it all to themselves! I love that they get to see things they would not normally see in the city like these giant grasshoppers! Kade was fascinated by them. He had never seen such a site. I chuckled that they were both a little afraid of them!
I remember saying to them "Shhh, listen what do you hear?" They said nothing.....I said exactly! I love the quietness of SJ. I miss it! I love when I have time to bring my kids home and show them what small town life is like. Sometimes I think that I am a better mom when I am home, mostly because I can take them and show them things I did as a kid that was fun. I have a hard time in the city since I didn't grow up here I feel like you have to have money to do fun things or if you do things that aren't costly, there are hoards of people there.
Another fun thing I taught my kids on this trip was how to play marbles. I remember playing marbles as a kid at school at the old Coronado building that is no longer there. I would love to watch others play and always wanted to win cool looking marbles. So I bought a few bags and taught them. They loved it! I even convinced them if they did helpful things I would take them and buy them more. Kaden went to work and spent one morning helping my mom transplant plants. He had a good time helping her but reminded me he earned more marbles. We stopped in RV at western drug and lucky me....they had a whole wall full of different colored marbles. JACK POT! So I bought quite a few bags to have them earn at a later time!
On Thursday Julie and I packed up the car and drove to the mountains to find fall leaves. Kaden had an assignment in school that if we went anywhere for fall break that had colorful leaves to bring some back. I thought it would be fun to take a picnic and go make some memories like I had growing up. It was a little early for the color change and so we weren't sure if we should drive to greer or nutrioso. We ended up driving to Nutrioso since my grandma was from there I figured I could teach my kids a little about the area. It was so much fun visiting with julie. I had a blast just spending time with her! We stopped off at some lake that now slips my mind the name of it. But we parked and both had babies in our arms and lunch and headed down to the lake. We saw fish actually jumping out of the lake and thought we were crazy at first. The kids had fun exploring and these are a few pictures of the day.
We took the little kids to Nannie Mcphee 2 at the theater and Julie and I ran over just in time to catch Senior night for jenna. It was a Soccer game I believe between SJ and RV and of course they whopped them. I am amazed that 2 days later we would find out about Spences condition....he looked so great that night!
I couldn't get over how big the twins are now! Last time I saw them they were so little. They are beautiful and such happy little girls! I am proud to say that the few days I was home I can successfully tell them apart! However I think it will take a few more times of spending more time....because now I look at the pictures and wonder! Julie and butch are really lucky what great babies they are!
