A Super Hero Story

So it’s well past bedtime lastnight and the four of us trudge up the stairs. We let the two darlings sleep in the guest bedroom because they like it and well because I didn’t put sheets on Little Man’s bed after I stripped it the other day.

Kids are in bed – Hubby is already snoring – I hear this buzzzzzz buzzzzz whack!Buzzzzz buzzzzz whack! I’ve heard this sound before, call the kids into Little Man’s room because right now his door is the only one I can shut quickly, call hubby to come rescue us and then shut the three of us in the bedroom while hubby drags out into the hallway to see what’s amuck. I tell him it’s one of those big honking bees again and he understands that as the man of the house it’s his job to tend to it. (These bees are almost the size of my thumb - no kidding! and I swear they have an 18 gauge stinger [ok so you gotta be a nurse or other medical person to know what that means] - that sucker would hurt!) Momma does not do big, hairy black spiders, mega bees that I swear are related to tsetse flies, or bats – oh no! Momma does NOT do bats.

OK so superhero (hubby, in case you got lost there) is in the hallway and I hear the buzzzz buzzzz whack continuing, then I hear pffffffffffffffffffft pffffffffffft (flying insect spray) SMACK! (must have missed) pffffffffffft buzzzzzzzzz buzzzzzzzz buzzzzzzz pfffffffft pffffffft and I think OMG someone’s gotta win this! Still, I’m in the safety of the closed off bedroom and I yell out to our superhero “No More Spray! We have to breathe tonight!" and the response, “OK I’m not spraying anymore” BUZZZZZZZZZ BUZZZZZZZZ WHACK WHACK BUZZZZZZZ BUZZZZZZ BUZZZZ and something that sounded like superhero tripping in his flip flops and then pfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffftttttttttttttt pfffffffffffffffffffffffffftttttttttttttttt
“I said No More Spray!” Then I hear SMACK SMACK SMACK !

Ahhhhh he got it! Cough Cough CHOKE Cough Cough CHOKE (that’s me)
Then between coughs, I said, “I thought you said you weren’t going to spray anymore?” And the reply: “I didn’t see you trying to get it and I couldn’t catch it. The spray knocked it down and then I got it”

Yeah, good point.
Sigh

So kids are placed in the beds again and me and SuperHero climb back into bed, but I swear I TASTED flying insect spray as I fell off to sleep.

~ As visions of sunshine dance through our heads ~

And we are off again to our tropical paradise in Spain. The hot weather and ample sunshine will be a welcome sight. Our first summer in France has turned out to be rather dreary and wet for the most part.

Here's a few of our favorite things in Spain.

I remember when

I'd be driving down the highway with the two older girls and we'd play I SPY for different license plates (different US States). OK so we were in NH and this was fun and it also kept the complaining down in the back seat about how long the trip was. We'd spy Colorado, Hawaii, Texas, Utah, California, North Dakota and think that was pretty darned cool.

Fast forward 15 years later ...

We were driving several hours to an eye specialist appointment for Little Miss
(only the best will do when it comes to eye surgery) and here are the license plates we saw along the way:

Romania, Latvia, Poland, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemburg, Italy, Slovenia, Slovakia, Austria, Sweden, Great Britain, Turkey, Portugal, Spain and France (of course since we are in France)

But seriously,

How. Freaking. Cool. Is. That. ???

Hagatha is gone

Yes, I've changed my name
I'm not a Hag - in spite of what some may say
I'm a Free Spirit with a happy heart

It appears someone has been using my previous blog name to send not-so-nice messages to people I'd rather not be associated with, so I let go of the name and move on

Free Spirit
I answer to nobody - I follow my own rules
and you can't kick me down

HUGS and LOVE

~free spirit~

*~* HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA *~*

(a day late in posting but my heart was with you all day yesterday)

Alanis Morrissette describes me to a T

my earworm today

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I'm a Bitch I'm a Lover
I'm a child I'm a Mother
I'm a sinner I'm a saint
I do not feel ashamed
I'm your hell I'm your dream
I'm nothing in between
you know you wouldn't want it any other way

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preschool music video

Little Miss is the tall one in the blue shirt and white skirt. The kids next to her are in her kindergarten class. Little Man is the shy boy in the navy blue striped shirt.
Enjoy!




the kids in the back are the FIRST graders!



Thanks for looking!
HUGS