{"id":274,"date":"2011-06-13T12:37:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T16:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=274"},"modified":"2011-06-13T12:37:39","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T16:37:39","slug":"the-island-family-voyage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"The Island Family Voyage"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Island Family is on the road for a few days. It looks like we are in for an as yet undisclosed change in the next few months, so we have some work to do to make it happen. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll keep you posted.<\/p>\n

Right now, the impending change has resulted in me trying to write sitting on the floor with my computer propped on a diaper box. As I type, the three small people and the one large person are running around me, shooting each other with Nerf guns. That, coupled with the raging headache and sore throat I woke up with, is making for an unusually challenging posting experience. Yet, I am a professional, so HEAR ME ROAR. Or in this case, TYPE FORCEFULLY.<\/p>\n

When my daughter saw me starting to pack for what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll call the first leg of our voyage, she got all excited and wanted to pack her own suitcase. I was rather curious to see what she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d do, so I gave her free reign.<\/p>\n

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Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what she did. Hmm. Kind of looks like my suitcase. Actually, it looks like my brain feels right now.<\/p>\n

Before we left, we also encouraged the small people to go out and enjoy the ocean for a while since we would be gone for a week.<\/p>\n

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My eldest chose to do martial arts in the waves as his coastal activity of choice. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d give anything to know the full details of the internal drama going on in his mind when he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s out there doing this. When I ask, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll gladly give me the title of the drama, like Lord of the Rings<\/em>, for example, and a ten-second summary, like: Frodo is with me, he has the ring, the Orcs are closing in on us, and I lost my weapons in the last battle. But it would be fun to see all the details he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s imagining, sort of like a virtual reality game of his mind. Okay, now that I wrote that, that sounds seriously creepy, and I hope we never have the capacity to do that to people, because I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to keep my mind to myself, thanks so much. At least on this blog, I let it out in very controlled, albeit scary segments.<\/p>\n

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My middle child decided to use his powers to torment every possible living creature that tried to burrow just below the surface of the sand. After all, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got a whole week to rest easy after he leaves, so why not provide them with some excitement that will live on in their minds while he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gone?<\/p>\n

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My youngest decided she needed to go fishing with her net. This is always entertaining to watch because first she gets mad at the poor fish for not making it easier for her to catch them, and then she becomes mother-protective of them once her dad<\/del> she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s caught them. She then hovers around the Disney princess bucket they are in, yelling at anyone who comes near it not to touch the fish or knock over the bucket because \u00e2\u20ac\u0153we have to keep them alive.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Next, she plays with them for a while, trying to feed them with things clearly not meant for fish consumption, and then pours them back in the ocean so she can catch them again later. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very humane compared to what she would inadvertently do to them without supervision.<\/p>\n

Well, I just heard my son yell \u00e2\u20ac\u0153My gun has booty power!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as he aimed his Nerf gun at his brother. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not sure what that means, other than I think that might be my final curtain call, as complete and utter chaos appears to be about to ensue.<\/p>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m off to find pain medication, and maybe a nanny to handle this domestic disturbance. Over and out, my friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Island Family is on the road for a few days. It looks like we are in for an as yet undisclosed change in the next few months, so we have some work to do to make it happen. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll keep you posted. Right now, the impending change has resulted in me trying to write […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[224,227,222,100,225,223,226,229,228],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islandlife","category-island-parenting","tag-fishing-nets","tag-i-cant-think-with-a-cold","tag-island-family","tag-island-living","tag-island-vacations","tag-nerf-gun-fun","tag-on-the-road","tag-packing-suitcases","tag-water-martial-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}