I'm taking a break from my company to type this blog post. My sister and her two kids and our friend G and her two kids are here. I think my husband is looking for things to do just so he doesn't have to deal with the seven kids currently staying here.

They are all behaving rather well, all things considered.

They arrived yesterday afternoon and we had everyone asleep around 9:30 which is pretty good.

Today we spent the day at the pool and had a wonderful time...though I think some of us got a little too much sun.

Tomorrow we are tackling Hershey park with all seven kids with varying heights.

PRAY for me.

I'm guest posting over at Turtle Droppings today while Tortuga is off enjoying some blog free time.

Inspired by this post about my SUCKATION last year I decided to write up a post about how you (and hopefully I) can avoid another disaster this year.

We leave for camp on the 7th.

However, I have made some preemptive moves to avoid a similar disaster.

• The dog is not invited.
• We are not camping in a tent; we are camping in a cottage.
• I am bring at least two bottles of wine.

Here's hoping Tortuga is having a wonderful time. Be sure to visit her and leave us both a comment, will ya.

They're like crack....we need them.

The Great American Scrapbook Convention was a lot of fun. Even my friend, B, who doesn't scrapbook had a good time. Best of all is that there were lots of stamps with turtles on them! I got quite a few of them and can't wait to show you some of my creations. These are some from the show.






My mom, who is a beginning card maker, was enthralled by the creations on display. She joked about how she should get started on her Christmas cards on Saturday for the 2011 holiday.

Especially, if she wants to make this one.

As you know Mother Nature is a fickle bride or so I've read in a poem or two. Last March we had a hail storm that took us a little by surprise. Neither my husband nor I had ever shoveled hail before and though we heard it came in golf ball size this was the first time we ever saw it. It was like free dippin' dots from heaven. However those dippin' dots were a little destructive.

We figured we wouldn't see it again in our lifetime.

Then May 14th rolled around and we saw something new. Baseball size hail.


When it comes in the baseball size variety it's even more destructive. It slashes the shingles on your newly shingled roof. It punches holes in screens and siding. It dimples your vehicles.

T-ball went out on a HOT note. Yesterday's game was a warm one, but it was a lot of fun. The Coach handed out trophies at the end and the boys were all smiles. Here's little G on first base. He had two hits and used the T once. I was really proud of how well he did this year.