I think I’ve been in Massachusetts for almost a month now and Carl for 2 weeks. We are on a mooring in Marion, a cute little town with the fanciest looking school I’ve ever seen. We are up here visiting Carl’s family. Carl was born and raised in this area and moved south to Florida when he was 8. It’s lovely up here, somewhere we can see ourselves settling down, but I don’t know there’s still way too many people around for my liking and it’s not even summer yet.
We are trying to get some projects completed…. or started while we’re here. Carl is welding closed all the forward portholes and having some more grab rails made. It feels good to start some much needed boat projects but to get them completed is another story. We thought we had it tough with 2 toddlers on a boat but now we have a “hold me, hold me now or I’ll break your heart” baby. I’m officially completely useless when it comes to projects now. I’ve started a 30-60 minute class in the morning for the girls. I ordered a homeschooling kit from Sonlight which is helping me keep the right balance between letters, numbers, history etc. So we do school in the morning and I juggle cleaning, kids, baby, food the rest of the day. We are surviving, barely. The little man is a great baby but even great babies are little time suckers.
For the first time ever I’m feeling rather trapped on the boat. I’ve learnt how to run the dinghy in and play bumper dinghy's at the dingy dock, and we have a family car here too but still it’s bloody hard work to get off the boat. Load all the kids in the dingy listen the little man cry (he hates our Ergo carrier) until the hummm of the motor puts him to sleep. He loves himself an outboard motor and generator. We’re a hair under a mile to the dingy dock and with the no wake zone of 5 miles per hour it takes a good 20 minutes in. We have made the run twice being dumped on by rain, once with little wags wetting her pants and about a hundred times with Pri screaming “IM COOOOOLLLLD!!”. Then of course loading 3 kids in a car is a pain in the arse. But all parents have these woes.
We are looking forward to June being a warmer and more sleep had month.
Family luncheon.
Carl and Pri working on toy storage solution from Ikea – yeah baby IKEA!!
Little man loving his Merry Muscles Jumper
Now this is living! This wouldn’t be home with out a minefield of crap everywhere.
