We're gonna need a bigger boat.....

There is a commercial on right now that says the average person gets to experience 25, 000 sunrises...( 32,000 average for the LuminosoClan) image that counter... huge number...

Throughout all our sunrises, we are lucky enough to have people come and go in our lives.. we see friends grow into family and other make their impression only to move on.... unfortunately we see family drift apart.. and fortunately pull back together... We experience events that change us forever and miracles that touch our hearts... We experience the wonder of our babies being born...we feel the pain of people passing on... lots of good, lots of bad.. in the end lots of life...

That is a broad stroke of the brush look at our lives... Thinking back and ahead at the Dot counter, makes me realize that while I have a lot of sunrises, I need to focus more on the time between sun up and sun down... so much happens in our busy lives that one day blurs into the next and a handful of days are gone before you realize you missed them... You never get them back... they are gone...

Life isn't too short... it is the days that make it up... that go by to quick

OK... sorry about the Nietzsche moment...


A slow day.... great weather, you could see people enjoying the sun back on their faces for the first time in a while.. Big Sis and her friends, actually were trying to get tans today... didn't want to break their spirits but you need to lay out in the sun a little longer than 5 minutes... I guess the right thing is not to lay out in the sun, makes sense given what we know.... To me it is one of those things... I still hang out on the beach most weekends... nothing compared to the days, when I was on the first beach at Sandy Hook by 9 and off as the sun came down...

I was moving some of the "stuff" around in the basement today and became fascinated by the Car seat and the insurance industry approved platform it sits on... Man things have changed in 6 years... I think Little Guy's seat was more like mine as a Small brat... than it is like the baby in a bubble technology Dot will experience... I remember mine... a piece of foam, sitting on the hump in the back of an old Plymouth Fury II... It had a little plastic steering wheel that was bolted to a steel frame... And to my brothers, yes I remember that Fury.. if you turned the wipers on, tuned the radio to a high side of the AM band it made a sound like breathing... throw in the emergency flashers and it sounded like a heart beat... ( the things we remember or the stories we were told.. over and over again... like Strawberries as big a your fist... See Mom, I listened)

Back to the day... The kiddos had a walk a thon at school... great event.. Big Sis was the unofficial photographer... I looked at the camera when she came home, I think she took 500+ pictures... I am sure she will want to print out at least half of them... Can hear Toots now...

Little Guy... was in his glory.. anytime he can run with his friends is a good time... While it raises great cash for school, I think it is a great tool to start Easter break... after an hour of walking in circles... the kiddos fall asleep real easy at night...

Tomorrow starts... "can I go to ______ House.... Can I call _______ and have them come over... or the dreaded... what are we going to do today..." Tomorrow also starts... Toot's nervous breakdown... Can hear it now... "No you can't.... no s/he can't, I don't know.. go pick up your room... And the ever popular... Stopping hitting your ____. "

I'm going to the office....

Well that's it... The mind is shutting down... Thank for the continued encouragement and thoughts... Keep those letters and cards coming in....