I have such a bad habit of reading my emails and all of my friends blogs before I write my own entry.  The problem with that is, most of the time, I don't get around to my own entry.  Time's up.  The kids need me.  I need to eat.  You know, all the unimportant things in life.. hehe....

Yesterday we went for a walk on our city's new walking trail.  One way leads to the bad side of town, and the other leads to a nice city bordering us.  Or so I thought.  We didn't walk very far before the trail just ended.  The kids thought we walked miles upon miles.  I really couldn't tell you how far we walked, but I think we were gone about an hour.  But that's walking with four kids and collecting leaves along the way.  And you can't forget the dog poop we had to keep avoiding.  (lovely city I live in)  I am glad we went.   We were walking along "la la la", when all of a sudden, "AHHHHH".  My mom screams and jumps back leaving poor Princess C in the line of danger.  I didn't know what the problem was, but I was imagining a swarm of bees.  So I put my arms around C and yanked her back.  Alas, it was only a snake.  A very fast moving, leaping aross the trail kind of snake.  So then I'm yelling, "Quick!  Boys!  A snake!  Come look!  Do you see it?!?!"  I was right about to tell them to pick it up, when I imagined my hubby killing me for allowing the boys to touch a creepy crawly.  (they aren't allowed to kill spiders because he is afraid they will die from a bite).  You know what hubby said later when told about this??  "They should have picked it up.  Spiders bite and are poisonous, that's why they aren't allowed to touch them."  Ummm... ok.  Spiders poisonous, snakes harmless.  In reality, up here in IL, they are both harmless.  It's not like we live in Australia.  Oh well, who can figure out hubby??