Monday, April 6, 2009

Since I’m currently camping in the desert with no electricity or WiFi, I called upon a few of my dear blogging friends to fill in during my absence here at the circus.   They graciously agreed.  So, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of this week, I will feature a different guest blogger from my blog roll for your reading pleasure.  I suggested they write a post that demonstrates how they would fit in here at the circus. 

And boy do these mommas get the circus life!

I hope you will take the time to come back to read and comment on their life at the circus.  I know you will not be disappointed!  

I intend to share some tales from the desert when I return to the land of the internet later this week!!   I’m pretty sure 4 days of camping and two full days of driving with our crew will leave me with a circus anecdote or two! 

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Saturday we ventured out for White Sands, NM.  We had high hopes for some sand sledding. 

I was expecting it to be like this.

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Only there is this phenomenon in Texas we recently discovered called Wind Season.  Who knew?  (Yes, knowledge of this would have been helpful in planning our vacation). 

So when we arrived at White Sands we discovered something called a sand storm.

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And unlike a snow storm, sand storms hurt.  Amazing how wind gusts pelting sand onto your face doesn’t exactly feel good.  I had envisioned the kids loving life as they went sledding in nice 70 degree weather.  But, they weren’t big fans of the sand blasting.

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So instead of doing this,

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the kids rode in the car for 2 hours to do this

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while Mom and Dad did this

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Thankfully though we went with our close family friends and aunt and uncle.  So for the 4 hours of driving to nowhere, they got to enjoy time with their new friend.  And I gotta say, the kids were great.  They sang songs and played phone and make believe.  It was a huge blessing. 

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And even though it wasn’t exactly like I thought it would be, I am glad we went.  Because I have never seen sand like this and it gave me an appreciation of what it would be like to walk in the desert. 

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