Two Week Hiatus........

While my mom was here visiting, I took a two week hiatus from blogging. Usually when my mom comes to visit I try to stay off social media (I try!), limit my phone calls and, only check my email once a day. I try to just live in the moment with my mom. My best friend thinks I seclude myself and ignore her phone calls ;) Most of my friends have their mom in the same city and they get to see them every week. So, when my mom comes I try to take in as much of that crazy lady as I can.

I'll spare you all the play-by-play of everyday but we did a lot of eating, shopping, going to the parks, and tons of playing outside! It was great to see that Madeleine still remembered her. She even managed to call her granny. I'm pretty sure my mom teared up when she heard it. Mommy and daddy even manged to sneak some date nights in, as well. My mom has a fractured shoulder so we would normally leave after I bathed Madeleine and got her in her pajamas. There was one time that we came home and Madeleine was still up watching Tinkerbell. Only granny would let her stay up past nine!


The visit was great but, of course there were just a few hiccups. First, Morgan managed to get poison oak on 80% of his body during some training. That man is highly allergic to poison oak and poison ivy. I swear if he just looks at it he gets a rash! Well, this time it was all over his body! It was like he saw it and just threw his whole body into it. He usually gets it every other year, so we are kind of used to it. Luckily, I never get it but we were a little scared because we have Madeleine now. He pretty much didn't touch her for two weeks. I pretty much made sure he didn't breathe on her, hahaha. Of course, this terrified my mom. Anyone that knows my mother knows she a big old scaredy-cat!! She wouldn't touch anything Morgan touched and if she did she scrubbed it with hot water and soap. Poor Morgan, it was like he had the plague!

What else happened..... an earthquake happened 50 minutes away from us. Not only that, there was a small aftershock that we felt.  In my mom's head.... the whole house moved, the ceiling almost caved in on her and, it lasted a whole minute. What it actually felt like.... I thought Morgan was shaking his leg in bed and it lasted maybe 5 seconds. The dog didn't even wake up. I'm pretty sure that she got no sleep that night and she prayed all night long! The next day she watched the news all day and kept saying, "They say a big one could be next!" I lied to her and told her we have an earthquake survival kit. I probably should get started on that before the "big one" hits.

Well, that's all for right now but here are some pictures of our little cutie pie. I'm going to try to keep up with blogging more. See y'all later!

These were at the mission in San Juan Capistrano. I'm pretty sure my mom spent 30 minutes in the chapel praying that an earthquake wouldn't hit.