Watching the kids roast marshmallows for smores….

Enjoying the sunshine beaming down on me while my feet are up in a chair…

And watching the ducks swim around in the pond, love watching their landing in particular…

Having family time on the weekends is what warms my heart the most but relaxing outdoors? The best pass-time ever!

There is all this talk online about this game, it’s called Angry Birds. Then I went to the movies in Concord, NH with my daughter and her friend the other weekend to see a sign that said something like “no angry birds flying in here. Please turn off your cell phones”. This sign reminded me, I have never played Angry Birds.

I don’t know the first thing about it, but my nine year old daughter does. Now I thought Angry Birds was a game reserved soley for those with smartphones or nifty cell phones, unlike my prepaid one, but apparently you can play Angry Birds online too. This is why my daughter has played Angry Birds before, she found a free game online to play it.

I do not get the game. I couldn’t tell you one thing about it. I can tell you the stuffed animals at Walmart for sale are rather creepy looking Angry Birds and that so many are in love with this game, but that’s about it.

So, have you played this game? What’s all the hype about?

Living the majority of my life without traveling, created a person who never had much interest in traveling nor experience new things. I was rather settled in my life in a small town, of course, I honestly didn’t want to live here my whole life, however, being that I was living within my own comfortable shell, packing up and moving was out of the question.

I remember my first and only trip to Florida around thirteen years of age, my step sister, my mom, my mom’s boyfriend, my sister and I drove down the 21 hour drive to stay a week near Disney Land. The fun times we had were certainly priceless staying at a cute condo or resort area and experiencing Disney Land. This trip was the only trip I had ever taken and again, we drove down instead of flying.

I always had this fear of flying, I firmly believe that only birds were meant to fly, not humans. After starting my Happily Blended Blog and it becoming a huge success, I had to make a decision to fly or not to fly in order to further my blogging career. I made the decision just last year, to fly and I haven’t looked back.

All ready to fly again and again the sky is the limit and hopefully I can spread some of my kids wings by allowing them to travel and experience other ways of life so that when they are grown adults, they are not like me, stuck in my small town ways and able to fly free to make a home of their own whenever their heart desires!

A new vehicle makes me think twice about where my children should sit. We pulled up and checked out a Ford Taurus Wagon, having never seen one up close I was curious just how many buckles there were in this vehicle. As some know, I went from having a van to no vehicle, but I do have three kids with one who is a total grumpy butt and needs his space on trips.

Looking at the Ford Taurus Wagon, I wasn’t sure if it would be a good fit but it seemed to be in great shape and it was able to seat my children comfortably. This car has a rear facing seat behind the normal back seat, which seats two people buckled in.

At first I thought the idea of my two older children sitting back there would be great, they even loved it, but then as 24 hours passed, I started to get concerned about being rear ended. I mean, I can assume a rear facing seat car would have some safety features in it to protect from such a bad accident, but then again I don’t know and my kids lives are not something to mess around with.

I made a decision to put the seat down and tell my five year old it doesn’t work right so as to avoid him having to sit back there and it went over fine. I haven’t had any issues and I honestly explained to my nine year old how I felt it wasn’t a safe idea to have her and her brother back there on a regular basis but on occasion they certainly can sit back there.

I don’t know what I will do about the rear facing seat, probably look up safety features in this vehicle and see what it lists as ideas of who and what age and weight/height should sit back there as well as any additional features that may have been done to the back windshield glass as a way to help avoid a fatal injury with a rear ended accident.

For now I am reaching out to all of you – do you know anything about those pop up rear facing seats that some vehicles have? What are your thoughts on it?

My pug is a sweetheart, I love her dearly. I mean who wouldn’t love a dog that sleeps as often as you would like to, eats twice a day whenever you feed her, goes out to pee whenever you feel like letting her out and to top it all off she lets the kids do whatever?

This dog rules…

Usually that is, until something happens to make her bark and this is just a small list of various situations that make her bark {a lot}, like all disturbed, ruffled up, hair on end .. barking:

• Tom & Jerry, you know that cartoon? Oh yes indeed. Woof Woof Woof!
• Me opening the door to enter, after she just watched me walk out of the door. Woof Woof Woof!
• Wii games – any and all. Woof Woof Woof!
• The wind blowing outside. Woof Woof Woof!
• My typing on the keyboard, in my office – one room away from her, like right now! Woof Woof Woof!

It’s crazy, never seen a dog so disturbed by so many things. The television really gets me, because she barks at it so often I have to wonder if her previous owners ever watched television? Love my Pug, dislike the startled nature she is starting to have all of a sudden.