What a Visit with Marc’s Padres!

So how often can a woman say that she really likes her in-laws?  Well this First Mate can.  And wow what a fun time we just had with Marc’s parents, Ken and MaryEllen (Mel).  Ken and Mel are in St. Pete Beach for the winter and jaunted down here to Fort Lauderdale for a few…

Camden: Captain Dinghy

I had soooo much fun driving the dinghy yesterday.  I could only go slow because the sign said I had to go really slow.  We had to blow up the dinghy more – Daddy did that.  The dinghy and my motorboat had a race – Daddy was the driver of the dinghy and I drove…

Our First Week Under our Belt

This past week has flown by.  It’s hard to believe we’ve been on the boat for nine days now.  Even though it’s next to impossible to get things done on a boat when you have three kids, Marc and I have actually managed to get some items checked off the “to do” list.  And the…

Goals and first days …..

We are now 3 days into this journey as we moved aboard the boat this weekend.  We are having a great time and all are adjusting well.  We do need to watch our water usage as we have been using a ton.  Homeschooling is going great and Jen is doing an amazing job as the…

Joellen and Cam: We Have Pets!!!

  Today Camden and I got pets.  We each got two Hermit Crabs.  I named mine Crabby and Hermie.  Cam named his Bert and Bob. We had to present are resons to are parents why we should have Hermit crabs – Here we are presenting are 7 resons — 1-They don’t poop and smell like cats 2-Easy to take…

All the fixins……

–boat fixins that is — There are more projects that we will likely do (ie – adding watermaker and dodger) and likely additional things will break but hey, that just gives us more stuff to blog about — So when we bought the boat and went through the survey, we identified the items that we…

Camden: Bye Friends!

This is my clas.  Well not my class anymore.  I miss them.  I had a Crismis party on the last day of school.  We wached the Poler Express and drank hot chocklet. This is my seckend grade techer.  She is asome.  I wish she could fit in my sootcase.  She makes me smile like ckraze. This…

Joellen: Bye bye Cherry Tree

My last day at cherry tree elementery was December 20.  It was a fun day because we had a Christmas party. But it was also a sad day because I had to say goodbye to my friends and my teacher.  I will miss my classroom as well.   There is a cowch in our room that…

And We’re Off!

Check out the side of our U-Haul…Stowe on it!!!  For those of you that have only known me since 1999, you may not know that my maiden name is Stowe.  How cool is that?  When Marc pulled into the U-Haul dealership in Indianapolis, they walked him over to our rental trailer and he belly laughed when…

From Dream to Reality

So next week,  December 18th 2013, we will move the last bit of our stuff either into a small u-haul that we will pull with our mini-van to Fort Lauderdale or it will go into our 10×15 storage unit that holds all of what we own.   (before being full) (trying to figure our where to put…