So as some of you know and some of you don't we are a U.S. Navy family. That means 24 hour duty days, rotating shift work, long deployments, under ways, and having to cancel or change plans last minute. Every military member knows how it works. You can have something planned for months. The day before or the day of it can change at the drop of a hat. Something broke, there is some sort of training or someone did something wrong and EVERYONE is being punished for it. Story of our life. So family time is something that is VERY precious to us.
Wonderful husband of mine planned us a day at the lake yesterday on his day off. Yes, mega brownie points for him. :) He however did not plan on the massive bus load of Boys and Girls Club of America kids being there. Not the most relaxing situation. Whatever we will make the best of it. Well, we spent the next hour doing the following....
- Yelling "Watch out for the baby!" every 5 minutes.
- Speaking with their camp counselors since EVERY TIME we walked away from our stuff one of the kids would steal one of our sand toys.
- Staring! Oh my, did they stare. Every time we took out a snack 1 or 2 would come stare and watch us eat. ( Kinda sad considering some of them probably don't get their 3 meals a day but still creepy.)
So yeah it didn't turn out to be the day we had originally hoped for. However even with all the hiccups and extra "wild things" running around the lake we had a blast. Family time for us 3 is a very, very precious thing and comes very rarely. I'm blessed to have the time we have and shouldn't take it for granted. In 3 years it will be even rarer. So right now Little Dude and I will take Daddy however we can get him :o)
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