Simple fixes

The weather here has been delicious. We have been waking up in a timely manner which allows us to walk Mia up to school in the mornings, which is a much missed tradition. I usually only sport our garage door opener to make for easy access in and out of the house. This morning was no different. When I finally made it home after my hour + long conversation with some friends, I pushed my easy access button and went inside. Later, when the siren songs of beautiful weather pulled me to the park, I was shocked to find a non functioning garage door opener.

I can't tell you how grateful I was to have the garage door opener fail us post shower and post fed and napped kids. I resolved to get a new battery at the store after fun park playing and call it a day. Only problem, the new battery did jack squat. Fernando fiddled with it and amazing made our fancy built in the van car opener somewhat work, but strangely the openers are still a bit finicky.

While this was going on in the garage, I decided to get some laundry done. After loading some very stinky clothes, I push the on button. BUZZ! My washer wanted nothing to do with starting up. I fiddled and reset and did all the searching for solutions on line. I even reset the outside breaker. Nothing. My last resort was to see if something was catching things up on the inside. I moved the clothes around and found nothing out of the ordinary. Upon shutting the door, I pushed the on button one more time. BINGO! I guess my front loading washer has no problem starting just so long as you shut the door all the way. If only our garage door could be solved so simply.

Seaworld for the New Year

One of my favorite purchases of my life is SeaWorld Passes. We have more than gotten our bang for our buck. With fantastic weather and no school, SeaWorld became our home away from home. This day, we enjoyed the other side of SeaWorld with the Dolphin pool and Sharks. The kids loved to stick their hands in the water and hope for a possible encounter. Strike that, Talia dreamed of touching the water, but with her short arms and tummy on the platform rule it was out of the question. That wasn't really great for her. Luckily, there were some posters with the majestic "fish" as Talia called them. Then in the Shark exhibit, the kids were mesmerized. Talia kept singing Drummer Boy. what a good use of the day.