A Fabulous California Trip (Or, How I Became the Mother of 3 Teenagers)

This looks just lovely, doesn't it? Well, this is the view from my PARENT'S hotel balcony in sunny Southern California. 

THIS was the view I spent most of last week looking at. Rolo, wondering where Dad was. That's right--I stayed home and watched my younger siblings as my parents went off and got a tan. 

There was about a 60 degree difference in temperature (80 versus 20), but we still enjoyed ourselves while the parents were gone--right Anna? We went swimming a couple times at the AF rec center (yay for swimming! It is saving me!), Derek came over when Nate made his famous "extra cheesy" good potatoes, Alex went to Preference, and Garrett broke his phone! Twice!

  Woo! We partied at Pizza Pie Cafe! That look of disgust Nate has is just masking how thrilled he was to hang out with me all weekend.

I mean, really, who would choose this:

Over this:

Seriously though, I am very glad my parents are back (though I think they're still adjusting to life back in the real world).