Today was one of the first afternoons this summer where I really gave myself an opportunity to just sit and rest and recharge and really enjoy a (sort of) lazy summer afternoon. Number 5 and 7 were invited to a water park with one of their swim team friends. They left the house at 9:30 […]
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I Created The Problem. And Now I’m Fixing It.
We had the longest school year ever this year, and our last day of school was June 29th. Including weekends, today was our twentieth day of summer vacation. And that’s how long it took me to reach my breaking point. Twenty days. The kids have been home for three weeks, but it feels like three […]
The Day I’ve Been Waiting Thirteen Years For Finally Happened Last Tuesday
We don’t have any swim practices or commitments at all on Tuesdays, so on our summer calendar, Tuesday is day trip day. Our first Tuesday day trip was to Kent Falls last week. While most of us would look back on our trip to Kent Falls and say we had fun, there was lots of […]
Tuesday Day Trip #1: Kent Falls State Park
In an effort to keep myself on track with work, to help myself stick to deadlines, to establish some boundaries, to help me from strangling any of the kids and to make this a fun, memory-filled summer for all of us, I made a calendar of events. I explained that all in this post, but […]
End Of Summer Blues
The kids start school tomorrow. We will have a first, second, third, sixth and seventh grader. The girls are all very excited for the first day. The boys? Not so much. Especially Number 6 who has been crying every night for the last three nights when it’s time to go to bed. He has a […]
Because It’s Not An Inspection. It’s A Play Date.
I’m not a big fan of play dates. At my house. I’m more than happy to ship my kids off to someone else’s house, but I rarely have kids over to mine. This started for many reasons. First, we are only a couple years out of the napping stage for our youngest. And being kind […]