Countdown to Disneyland Two days to go--both of which I work--and I sit here typing this instead of packing or doing anything important, such as make transportation plans. (Does anything ever change?)

And the answer is: Blood, Sweat, and Tears.

For one thing, to get to the Hala fruit, you have to get past the razor sharp leaves, all of which are out to cut you into a million pieces. THEN you have to break that solid ten pound sucker into a hundred pieces. Each one of those pieces has to be scalloped individually with a small pocket knife and made into these orange "flowers." It took me (and everyone at my table) over a half hour just to cut ONE. But as we practiced it got faster. Took five of us on my table two hours to make three leis. The greenery is Laua'e.

Oh, and since we are going to be gone this week and the chicks still need round-the-clock care, my friend that ordered them is going to care for them till we get back, so we didn't pick them up yet. Plus, hubby gave away coop #2 to a boy up the street so we still need a home for them.

Okay, NOW to pack. I'm seriously going to try to pack me and the twins clothing all into one carry on. Possible?

  ¶ 1:37 PM 11Mana'o

  This House Could Use a Couple More Chicks.. Our baby chicks are finally going to be here tomorrow! Hubby started to make their coop yesterday. He moved the wood and stuff into the extension to work. The battery died on the drill so he had to manually screw in all the screws, causing a painful blister on his hand and everything...only to find out that all that work was for naught--
The assembled frame is too big to get back outside through the door!! lol!

So as I type this he is outside tearing apart a bunch of pallets to create a different coop. After all the wood and chicken wire he bought he said "Now they have to make $40 worth of eggs for us"
This morning we went to a birthday party today for the cutest little girl
The twins with their "My Little Pony" birthday things
  ¶ 3:49 PM 6Mana'o

  M.I.A. Looking for missing grandmother... She's tall, with dark hair, laughs a lot, eats fresh fruit all day, used to miss her grandchildren so much she'd call to talk to them. Missing for a couple of months. Doesn't return calls even if messages include invitations to join family trips to Tahoe and now a trip to Disneyland in which she can see her "grandbabies." I'm taking them in less than two weeks, and they'd sure like to see their grandma.
Just yesterday Z was singing "YIPPity Do DAAA, Yipity AAYYY My oh my what a wonderful day!!" just like his grandma taught him. Even though I've told him a zillion times it's ZIPPITY do da with a Z, not a Y. He sang verses that didn't belong and told me it's Grandma's way. lol.
Waiting, waiting..
are you still there, ma?  ¶ 5:43 AM

  Heavenly Hana This is where we camped this weekend.
  ¶ 7:29 PM 8Mana'o

  Hoppy Easter Knowing I had to work on Sat/Sun, we had our egg hunt on Friday. The twins didn't know the difference anyway : )
Thinking I was smarter than the average bear, I thought I'd save money by buying bags of snacks and candy that WEREN'T individually wrapped like the Easter candies were. I stuffed the eggs with sunflower seeds, assorted local snacks like honey balls and iso peanuts, loose skittles and Starburst. Wellllll, as you can imagine, the candies fell out as the twins opened their eggs, so I had them open the eggs over their picnic table, but it all became one big messy pile. Note to self: stop being a miser and cough up the extra $2.00 a bag for a clean Easter next year, you nitwit.
Then I met up with some friends and we went kayaking on the south side. We paddled straight out towards the whales we saw when we got there, but there were no whales while we were out. Though there were lots of turtles. I'm telling you, turtles are very curious and social. Every time I have seen them, whether in a boat, canoe, or kayak, they will swim around and pop up to watch us. They hang around. They are so darn gorgeous. I love me some sea turtles.
  ¶ 8:58 AM 12Mana'o