Day 4: I wonder if Rock Stars get up for Ibuprofen and go straight back to bed?

Courtesy of "Just Brenda"...


"How did Burger King get Dairy Queen pregnant?"

"He for got to wrap his Whopper."

I can't post Just Paula's joke, because "It just ain't right...".

Other things overheard at the Cheesehead Hash...

"Please pass the schnapps!" "Start Suckin!"

"Just Brenda and Just Paula in the circle for having the same haircuts!"



"Ditka!"

"Waukesha sucks!"

No Dead Squirrel, "58" doesn't beat ANYTHING in Mexican.

I also had to say, out loud, several times that there is "No Puking in the Mommymobile." Ever.

I'm sure I'm forgetting a ton but a couple of 36 yr old moms partied like we said we would. Like ROCKSTARS. And then Paula got up and ran 5 miles. Like a ROCKSTAR in training. I opened up a diet coke and waited for the icepick to stop stabbing my left eyeball.

What I Did On My Summer Vacation

Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets.


So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don't, and believe that everything happens for a reason.


If you get a chance, take it.
If it changes your life, let it.


Nobody said it would be easy;
they only promised it would be worth it.


This made me feel lighter today. And so did the time I spent at home. I have a feeling that my hometown will always be "home" for me. It's not that way for everyone. Some people can make the place they live their home. I haven't yet. Home is a place I go back to, to feel the most like myself. Even after 15 years, familiar faces and familiar places all bring back so many memories.

The lake was in it's most glorious mood. Not angry and muddy.




I was able to spend some relaxed time with my parents who are so good to me and hang with my nephew who grew up when I wasn't looking.

I was kissed by thousands of butterflies as I rode my bike along the almost deserted Point Beach Rustic Road.

I got to spend time with my best girls and their kiddos and got to watch mine and theirs play in the same pool that I spent entire summers in when I WAS THEIR AGE. And very little had changed, aside from being smaller somehow. And the familiar faces!




This trip, more than other recent ones, stirred up long ago forgotten memories. Happy ones. And I am grateful.