Recipes for living, loving and laughing:Jo, Elliott, Cloey & Zoey's adventures

The Spoon Theory written by Christine Miserandino   This is a much read if you have any physical limitations especially an autoimmune disease.

This was written in 2005. I hope it answers some questions.  My husband and I got married close to 20 years ago. My daughters were almost 3 and a little over 5. They took to him immediately and even told my parents that they liked him and thought he was cute! I was a step mom to his son who had loyalty issues to his own mother and never bonded with me. My girls bonded with my husband in spite of some very difficult times. What they tell us now is they see us as any other family. We had some problems and bad times; but we also had a lot of good times. They do not, much to my surprise, hold him hostage for those bad times. Their biological father was fairly absent. He sent me the requisite very low child support on time and visited them once a week usually. There were many weeks he missed visits or was late. He never knew who their doctor was or dentist. He never brought them to a school event; never saw them play soccer or volleyball claiming he was out of town wor...

This has been a great adventure. We love Georgie, had great visits with family, enjoyed the beach and loved watching the girls have fun. In all we spent 26 nights in campgrounds.  The last day was spent at Jupiter Beach, which is dog-friendly and very nice.  Jupiter Beach There is an upscale "campground" close by, which we would consider going to next year.  Heading home we are supposed to hit rain but no snow. Elliott is nervous about winterizing and of course isn't totally comfortable driving. We decided that we would winterize at a campground in Richmond, Virginia. Yesterday was thankfully uneventful. We stopped at Wal-Mart where Elliott rested and I got groceries. We slept at a Wal-Mart at exit 57 in South Carolina, which was very convenient. Our campground stop was at KampsAmerica, which was actually in Ashland, Virginia not Richmond. This would have been a great place to chill if we had time. We woke up to snow but since ...

You may have read about us being itchy. I thought it was from sand fleas but no such luck. We showed everyone Elliott's back and sea lice make perfect sense because of all the beaches we have gone to this one is full of seaweed. Dried yucky seaweed. It doesn't seem to have done anything to the girls but they did like to make on it.We weren't in the water but we looked it up and it fits exactly. We have aloe and I am going to coat us in it. Since we were not in the water we aren't sure this is sea lice. Whatever it is is bad enough never to go back to Walton Rocks!

Well Jo did do laundry on Thursday. Our site, which is quite nice, was flooded. The picture is before this area of Florida got seven inches of rain. In spite of the fact we could hardly get out our door we decided to take advantage of the birthday deal at Benihanas. Jo wanted to turn around as soon as we got out of the campground but we didn't. Of all roads to take we took A1A, saw a car nose down in a ditch of water, roads were closed so five miles from the restaurant which would have taken another 1/2 hour we turned around and found  Federal Highway. That was fairly easy going. We decided to eat at the number one rated restaurant in Fort Pierce Casa Azul. It was excellent. Jo wrote a review on trip advisor we were so impressed with the owner and the food. Today, Friday is fairly nice so we will be heading to the beach. Saturday was a magnificent beach day BUT the reason we remembered that we said we wouldn't go back is because of the sand fleas. Jo was bitten up two ye...

We decided to stay here one more night so we will head to the east coast of Florida on Tuesday.  Jan. 4 was Jo's birthday. We went to Dennys where jo got a free grand slam, took the dogs to the beach, where they much prefer being held than interacting with dogs and then went to our favorite buffet Crazy Buffet in Tampa where jo got their $20 buffet for free. It was another day on the dog beach. We will post some pictures of our last couple of days which are pretty much dog pics. Zoey is doing a lot of barking (: sorry for.the.duplicate.  We are now in Fort Pierce. This is our third time at Road Runner Campground in spite of being 45 minutes from the dog beach, Walton Rocks. It was cloudy and rainy today (Thursday) it might.be a laundry day. The pictures are from yesterday.

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We think because the girls have each other they prefer not to play with other dogs...just people. Having said that Hanna was an only child and she would not look at dogs or people.  This is Cloey and Zoey asking daddy to pick them up. You can see a little dog very close by.

We decided to post pictures rather than add to our st. Pete post. DeSoto is so special. We love camping here (electric and water), going to the off leash dog beach and the girls played in the beautiful fenced in dog park.Probably the nicest one we have seen. Hanna hated it. We do realize that the girls are afraid of other dogs but zoey will let them run after her. They both hide behind our legs. They love people though,!

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We actually had fun at the campgrounds new years eve party. We talked to some friendly people and although many were our age we still didn't find anyone like "us" and only people who really know is could understand the complexities this entails. It is a gorgeous day once again and back to the beach. Tomorrow we head to Fort Desoto state park, which is one of our very favorites and where there is an off leash beach. We'll add on to this post tomorrow.

A friend shared her friend's blog. I think you might like Lesa's list of her favorite books of 2013.  lesasbookcritiques.blogspot.com/2013/12/favorite-books.