Families

I'm back in my sewing room after a short family vacation. 19 years ago, I married my soul mate. I had a 12 year old son. He had a 10 year old daughter and a 6 year old son. I read somewhere that it takes 7-1o years to put together a blended family. We definitely found that to be true. The kids are all grown and gone, now. One is married. One is married then divorced. All are college grads. One lives in Maryland. One lives in Austin. One lives with his wife in Dallas. We all met in Austin the day after the 4th of July. There is this FABULOUS water park just south of Austin called the Schlitterbaun. We spent the whole day there. What fun! The original part of the park is built into the hillside along side of a river under grand old trees, so the lines for the rides are in the shade. Also, the rides may take you right into the river. Maybe the highlight of the day was when my husband and our oldest son decided they were tired of bumping their bums on the bottoms of the rides so they were going to ride the raging rapids on very small child size innertubes. We all tried to tell them the tubes were too small, but to no avail. Sure enough, they couldn't stay sitting on the tubes! Finally, they came bumping down the rapids, sitting on one tube and holding on to one or 2 others! It was hillarious! I am sooooooooo glad our daughter (who lives in Maryland) had the idea that she wanted to do this. On the way back to the hotel, our oldest remarked that for a little while, he felt like he was 13 again. I said this time it was way better than when he was 13. Back then, I felt soooooooooo responsible for everyone, that I couldn't really enjoy an outing like that. This time, I could just relax and enjoy it. It was soooo much fun!!! I want to go again!!! Love you kiddos!!! And next time, we'll START on the scary rides!!!