{"id":671,"date":"2011-10-24T12:58:18","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T16:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=671"},"modified":"2011-10-24T12:58:22","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T16:58:22","slug":"weekend-developments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=671","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Developments"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s official. Saturday, we finished unpacking the last of the boxes from our move. Well, with the exception of a couple of my old boxes of teaching materials sitting in the garage right now. Which I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll hurry up and do right after I post this, because we all know how likely it is that I may need to whip out a tenth grade pop quiz on gerunds for the small people someday soon.<\/p>\n

You just never know when a set of old grammar tests might come in handy around the house.<\/p>\n

Like, probably never. Specifically, the never that means for all of eternity never.<\/p>\n

But I digress over a hypothetical of no merit.<\/p>\n

So now I undigress. And you see the general directionlessness this post is already taking. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t look for a thesis statement in this one; I can already sense that there won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be one.<\/p>\n

We also spent time at Home Depot and Lowes Saturday night, much to the small people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s complete and utter boredom, deliberating over flooring options for the small finished area of our ground floor. As you might recall, we bought a house that had pet-loving renters in it prior to our move. Did I mention that these pets were either simply not housebroken or were, but clearly suffered from continual bladder malfunctions? Yes, unfortunately for us, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s true. The carpet in two of the bedrooms had to be replaced when the tenants moved out, in fact, presumably because of the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153accidents.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

So, needless to say, the remaining carpet has to go, and we have now narrowed down our new flooring options to wood laminate, and are trying to decide between these two shades.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The fact that they are both on sale has everything<\/del> nothing to do with why we chose these two shades. Since this area is essentially just an owner entryway that houses the washer and dryer, and is not really an area anyone will spend much time in (except me, The Family Laundress), we really don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t much care one way or the other. Pretty much, I just want the seriously gross<\/em> out of my house. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fraying my nerves, folks, and driving me to thesislessness. And made-up words.<\/p>\n

Then, Sunday afternoon, we decided to go for a walk\/bike ride. Basically, the boys wanted to ride their bikes, LCB and I wanted to walk, and my daughter wanted to do a combination of walking and riding in her stroller.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It appears that we also reentered what I call the Yee-haw Phase. We do this once every month or two, where the younger two kids run around all day in cowboy hats and I run around after them, in an unstereotypical fashion, belting out \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yee-haw!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d after them with what I feel is my dormant cowgirl prowess. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just one of those largely inexplicable things.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>So, when we went for a walk\/bike ride later that day, my younger son rode cowboy style, and I bit my tongue, not wanting to embarrass my kids with my unbridled enthusiasm in public.<\/p>\n

It was hard. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know why.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>When we got home, one of our aviary friends was waiting for us, tranquil and unmoving for quite some time, despite the nearby antics of a couple of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153cowkids\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I birthed long ago.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This morning, I woke to high tide on the marsh. The bird was gone, but what remained was the urge to yell \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yee-haw\u00e2\u20ac\u009d over the quiet waters of the marsh, just to see how it sounded.<\/p>\n

I refrained again, figuring since none of the neighbors appear to have roosters, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re probably not into the whole \u00e2\u20ac\u0153loud noises early in the morning\u00e2\u20ac\u009d thing.<\/p>\n

Neither am I usually. After all, I am the one who, after I first married LCB, kept asking him, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Do you really need<\/em> to talk in the morning?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just say that, if he had yee-hawed me first thing this morning, it would not have been pretty.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, my post today would have taken a decidedly different turn, one with a clear-cut thesis statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s official. Saturday, we finished unpacking the last of the boxes from our move. Well, with the exception of a couple of my old boxes of teaching materials sitting in the garage right now. Which I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll hurry up and do right after I post this, because we all know how likely it is that I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[625,512,105,100,465,623,624],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islandlife","tag-beach-house-flooring","tag-beach-mom","tag-island-life","tag-island-living","tag-island-mom","tag-walking-on-our-island","tag-yee-haw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","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=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}