Gusty Goings!

Yesterday the gusts began again.  We are still yet to take down the bimini.  It is either ignorance or we are just hoping it really does rip away so we have to get a new one sooner than we are actually able! It picked up around mid day and through the night there were gusts up to 50 knots for sure.  The wind was howling and the boat was healing right over but the babies were sleeping.  No Mark and I did not take advantage of this ourselves to finally get an early night, instead we finished securing the boat and then settled in for a marathon run of t.v. (for us anyway) with Biggest Loser and Parenthood.  I love Parenthood because it makes me feel like a normal person however I wish it didn't come on so darn late because when Marley rose because of the wind at 3am and then Jacob at 4am I was not a supermom at all!

Marley at 1 month with Uncle Adam
on Alibi



What I have forgotten to mention was that yesterday was also Marley's 3rd birthday! I can not believe my little girl is a whole nother year older.  Mark and I spent all day saying "Three years ago today...." which isn't hard seeing as we were recounting a 25 hour labour and delivery! Still I held back tears all day thinking about what a big girl she is becoming.  She on the other hand was living it up.  Again this is the first year she actually understands the concept of her birthday (like Christmas) and is enjoying all the attention that comes with it.  We celebrated with a family dinner at Frong and Onion the night before and a few presents first thing in the morning over breakfast.  Which ment that she decided to read her new books and we were not ready in time for the ferry.  That was ok, it also ment we had to drive in which allowed me to give her, her first shout out on the radio for her birthday. The cool thing was we walk past the DJ for the radio sation on our regular walk to school so when I mentioned who we were he was really excited and played Marley's two favorites back to back; "Stir It Up" and "No Woman No Cry" from non other than the legend Bob Marley.  What an awesome birthday she had!



Marley 3 years old on Blew Horizon



The next day (today) the wind was even worse and they actually canceled the Dockyard ferry which ment driving in again.  I drove back to Blew Horizon and had the shock of my life!

There hanging in our dock lines (running from the stern of our boat to the dock) was our neighbour 3 boats down! His feet were on the dock, his head resting on our transom and his arms slung around our lines.  At first I wasn't sure if he was dead or alive as I ran down the ramp.  I shouted to him and he just asked calmly if I could help him up.  I was like *@!!L! SURE!!! I grabbed him and pulled him onto the dock.  He rested for a minuite and I asked him a few things about him and how he got into such a situation.  He was really calm about the whole thing and eased my worry about that he wasn't seriously injured.  I could not get him up to standing though, he was like dead weight trying to lift so I called Mark and asked him if he was nearby to come quick.  He in turn called the Dock Master who came and helped me get the poor old guy up and walked him with his cane to his boat.  It was all really disturbing and while most people are frightened that one of my children will fall overboard I am now far more concerned about the more likely event that we find this poor old man to have fallen overboard when no one is around! What if I hadn't happened to come home?! I am all for living your dream but you should also know your limitations.  It was really scary!

Crashed

Well on the drive home from picking Marley up from school I had a great topic idea and thought out dialogue for tonight's post... Hoses and Hormones.... I was going to explain the frustration of running out of water mid-shower to have to then in your towel and soapy hair run up the companion way onto the dock to turn the hose on and fill up the tanks when living on a boat.  I was also going to discuss the fact that my baby is ONLY 4 months old.... sometimes it feels like he has been here forever already.  Its hard to remember what life was like before him but then I recall as my body is still recovering from 9 months of creating him and then 6 hours of labour.  I think with your second especially it is very easy to forget that not long ago the latest bundle of joy just arrived! The signs are there though, my hair is still falling out, my body is still stretched and misshaped, overall I still feel and look like I had a baby!
However, tonight is going to be an early one; Jacob has not continued sleeping through the night and with the holidays approaching we are all exhausted!  I promise to revise this site soon; was rejected from Adspace so I need to really examine what is required out of blogging.... night time reading "Mom Blogging for Dummies" however tonight I don't think i'll make it past the introduction!

My favorite things

So Jacob and I have the same favorite spot on the boat.  Looking out of the hatch above Mark and I's bunk.  However we like them differently.  He likes it when the windscoop is up and the brezze blows in tickling him and creating an ora of blue in the cabin.  I like it at night when the lights from Bone Fish Resturant twinkle on the waves between us and them, the reflection can be seen on the glass as I lay in bed looking out beyond the hatch at the stars above.  LOVE

Yet again the wind has picked up and although dad is on a Boys Night Out it doesn't look like we will be going out again this weekend :(  I am sick of the weekends being windy.  As soon as the weather gets nice I am ready to cast off the lines and head to the open ocean and start home schooling from there.  Maybe we should wait for an engine first.  How can I feel stranded when we live on a boat?! I will post once the weather improves because lately these posts have been more about my mini dramas than babies on boats.

Night Rider

Well its been difficult lately to find something to post about.  All day I think of things to tell the world but recently all the mini dramas and stories that come to mind do not have much to do with raising babies on boats.  It's important to me to keep with this theme although recently we haven't had much boat action.

On Tuesday night we went for an evening cruise with Auntie Lizzie.  It was the day after the government changed the ferry to the winter schedule.  Boy does it suck! Not only do I now have to wait until 10:00 until I can leave town in the mornings after my walk (I had gotten to the point where I could make the 9:10 ferry after only arriving at 8:20) but the last ferry to Dockyard leaves Hamilton at 4:15.  Although I am not a regular working commuter... that sucks! Anyone who lives on a boat in Dockyard- or even lives in Dockyard for that matter and has a regular 9-5 in town can not use public transportation to commute.  That is just silly.  There has been quite a bit of adjusting in our little community to this schedule.  Today and yesterday we were the only boaters on the ferry in the morning and there have been many people stranded in town.  On Tuesday night after we dropped Auntie Lizzie back in town to her bike and grabbed a little something to eat from that great grease pit on the wharf there was a lady who was stranded in town.  She had just moved onto her boat last week and was unable to get back to Dockyard.  I suppose like hurricanes a little distress with the new schedule will only bring our little growing community closer together.

Night Rider Strider!

Tonight in an attempt to get Marley sleepy (we have a bit of a hard time putting her to bed, even after a long day at school and then a play in the park with Nana and Auntie Abbie!) we took an evening walk out to the pier.  I used to do this every night when I was pregnant with Marley. That is the nice thing about Dockyard in the winter... just when you get sick of all the tourists the disappear for a few months and the place becomes quiet and peaceful, then when you are about to go mad with the silence they reappear with all their karaoke and silly questions.  On the way back to the boat, we stopped to my poor damaged car (I scratched it bad on Tues afternoon :( of course right after paying for it to be insured and tested for TCD) to leave the pram in it (we still don't have a dock box).  We also grabbed Marley's Strider bike (def something to look into if you have a toddler!) to put back on the boat.  She decided she was up for a little night ride to the dock.  She was hilarious with her little pink helmet balancing her way along the road and then down the rap to the dock shouting "RIDER coming through... RIDER!!!" LOL we gave her the nickname 'Night Rider" for the night and then off to bed. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my1TAI3rulo