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Lately I have been totally scatter brained.

Sometimes I feel like I spend entirely too much time on the Internet and as Slade grows and grows, I get less and less time to myself. I enjoy blogging to let my family and friends get a little peek into my life but when I only have 30 minutes everyday to myself I'd rather spend it on something like...bathing, instead of blogging.

So I have been thinking of just discontinuing my blog. I highly doubt anyone even reads this so it's not like anyone would be missing it. I made a new poll for the whole FIVE readers I have, so you can vote to either keep or toss this boring blog of mine.

In other news:
As some of you may know; Dane, Slade and I live in Wilmington, NC. Approximately fifteen minutes from Wrightsville Beach. So when we heard hurricane Irene was going to be coming through the coast of NC we did what every beach bum does...headed to the beach!! I spent Thursday afternoon playing  in the sand with Slade while Dane caught a few choppy but fun waves. He was kind of disappointed in the onshore winds but regardless he got a little exercise and it's always fun to see Slade eat sand.

Friday was the day it hit land in NC and I spent the day packing, moving all important things off the floors onto high shelves (incase our flood prone house flooded) and praying that Dane's work would call them off early. Luckily, they did! He was allowed to go home at 1pm.

If it had just been us, we would have camped out at our house, lit some candles and played board games while watching the storm. It's not that easy with a baby. You can't explain why your house is 95 degrees and why there's not any lights on. Both of us have been through hurricanes and tropical storms before but this was different. We didn't want to put our child's life in danger- and our families were practically begging us to evacuate, so we did.

The wind blew us all the way to Raleigh, NC- along with everyone else, their mom, and their grand pappy. Traffic was insane, and It took literally 15 minutes to go 4 miles. We finally made it though, and settled into our hotel. It was kind of like a mini unplanned vacation. Slade thought the king sized bed was so much fun (and we didn't mind it either! FINALLY a bed where he wasn't kicking me in the ribs at all hours of the night).

But soon a migraine from hell set in, you know the kind where any sort of light or noise can make you cry? I sent Dane off to grab dinner and some extra strength Tylenol after Slade was put to bed.

We literally ate Wendy's in the bathroom (it was clean and the only place we could talk without waking the baby) which was hilarious. I took a hot bath and watched Keeping up with the Kardashians latest episode before bed.

At 4am Slade was woken by some obnoxious, noisy guys across the hall which in turn woke me up...I was two seconds from walking outside and having a few choice words with them. Instead I got a few more restless, hardly restful hours of sleep before our delicious continental breakfast.

Around 12 we checked out and went to meet my friend Nadia (the pregnant one) for Lunch at their local mall. It was awful and after complaining to a manager (which I've NEVER done, but it was that bad) we got our money back and went shopping. I got Slade the cutest things for this fall/winter.

I also bought myself a new pair of jeans...In a size I'm totally comfortable with. I've come to accept this is probably my new [insert adjective] body. Hardly improved, but I think if I lost anymore weight I may disappear when trying to keep up with my caloric needs for breastfeeding a 20lbs baby boy! I haven't even lost ONE pound working out which I guess is my body's way of telling me that this is where it's staying and there isn't a thing I can do about it! [sad face] I guess my next step will be starving myself after weening Slade (another thing we need to start working on, unless I'm going to be coming to his elementary school every two hours to feed him, HA HA...)
but seriously, I'm {kinda} kidding!


I Digress...
So after my horrible night of sleep, my best offered to let us stay in her cozy apartment in Cooper's room. It's pooh bear themed and totally adorable! We ordered pizza (and Dane didn't even count how many pieces I ate!) They are playing Call Of Duty [black ops] but I'm not a video game gal...so I'm blogging while I have the chance.

Tomorrow we are heading home and I'm glad because I'm sort of homesick and missing my kitties. Our power finally was cut back on at 4:30pm today. Hopefully we don't have any damage or flooding!

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Hope everyone had a swell weekend!