Seasonal Polarity

Today we spent a wonderful day at the coast. Emma tried to wake up at 4am this morning, but we managed to squeak out another hour of dozing. We all clamored down stairs around 5:30 and had some form of breakfast. Emma was still tired (maybe if her and Reggie hadn't been up for an hour at four telling jokes) and wanted to go back to bed after breakfast but Collin managed to keep her up. I got things together, took a shower, and then we loaded the car to head out.

We made a couple stops before leaving town (the most important being coffee and gas), and Emma was out before we made it to getting coffee.

She slept until about five miles from my dad's place

We visited with him for about a half hour, but it was so stinkin' chilly that we couldn't let Emma be out in it too long even with her coat and shoes and such. From there we headed in to town to the mall, where we were utterly disappointed in our search for new tennis shoes to replace the ones lost in the half drowning a couple weeks ago.

Yea, I don't remember if I mentioned that or not but we had to toss our shoes from that day... They smelled horrid.

Using our AAA membership got us a free coupon book and a sheet of coupons. I snagged a set of new drip pans (we have to replace them when we move out per the lease) on the cheap thanks to these coupons, and then we also picked up a couple calendars for the upcoming new year.

I probably said and thought this a thousand times today, but holy crap it's November. How the heck is this even possible?! On our drive home after a wonderful visit with our nearest and dearest friends, I was thinking how crazy it was to see all the trees bare and then I remembered that it was November now and winter is seven short weeks away.

The weather today was typical Oregon. For those of you not familiar with our amazing weather, it varies greatly depending exactly where in the state you are, and can even vary depending on what block you are on within the same town. It's awesome. In the summer months when it is sweltering in the Willamette valley it is commonly chilly (by comparison) and foggy at the coast. Come the fall/winter months it reverses. At home today we never made it out of the forties but at the coast it was in the low sixties by the time we left at 2pm.

:Pretty cool, huh?

My brain is kind of flitting around from thought to thought.

The time change is really throwing me off this time. The Fall change normally doesn't get to me so much but now with our dear little monster it is putting me through the ringer. Mostly from a logisitcal stand point. She normally is in bed between 6:30 and 7 of her own accord. Well, tomorrow, what has been her normal will now be 5:30-6 and in turn we fear her waking up at 3:30-4am instead of around 5am. As luck would have it she had a late nap during the trip home from the coast. We somehow managed to keep her little butt up until 8pm tonight. Our goal is to get her to sleep until the new 6am... We'll see how that goes.

I am expecting this next week to be a little rough with regards to our sleep schedule.

Tomorrow we are going to visit Collin's mom and hang out with the rest of the family. This has become the weekly norm. It would be so much better if it wasn't under such sad circumstances. But such is life.

I am hoping to be in the right frame of mind to do a sharing sort of post in the next couple days. I really do want to share my love of my rice/slow cooker and my crock pot. I know they have become more and more popular again and I would love to share some of my thoughts, just the thoughts haven't been there the past few posts... Huh, wonder why.

Good night, and sweet dreams.