Well, I promised again that I would start to keep things up to date and it never happened. Time to write has been non-existent the whole year! But it is summer now, and I am taking a deep breath and sitting down for at least a few moments before I take the kids for a swim. I am not going to attempt to rewind and get you all caught up, this update is strictly where we are now and what is going on this week. I don’t want to overwhelm either you as a reader or myself as a writer by trying to catch up on all the doings not recently chronicled.
So here we are, 3rd week of July and in the very thick of summer. And BOY is it summer. Today was honestly the first day that even walking outside made me just want to turn around and run for A/C. But it did. Standing around and talking after mass nearly made me melt, and then we still had to go to the store on the way home. That made me downright grouchy. But we made it.
So this week is a big week for us, we celebrate our 20th anniversary! We went out to dinner last night and even left the baby (big first there!) and had a nice time reminiscing and list our favorite and not-so-favorite moments of the last 20 years. Only God could have brought us through all the garbage we have lived through and still stayed together. Overall, it has been a very happy 20 years. 🙂
The kids are enjoying their summer. I deliberately underscheduled us for summer and am so glad I did. We needed this down time and the summer provided its own busyness. If I had scheduled stuff too we would have been on the go all the time. Ben, Max, and Tessa have been seeing a friend or two when they can and swimming the rest of the time. I can’t tell you how much I love having a swimming pool during the summer. It is just heaven to always have something for the kids to do.
We haven’t done any official swimming lessons but I have worked with the kids myself. That is going well. Lily can swim and is learning how to come up for a breath, Max is a complete fish now and only uses a floatie to jump off the diving board. Even Molly is in on the action. When we sit her on the top step she will scooch her butt to the edge, take a deep breath and lean/fall in and kick her way to me or Jay. She loves the pool and gets excited just seeing it.
Paisley has moved out again, after living at home the last 7 months. James has graduated and is preparing to start community college and is working part time. Posy is busy as a bee with her little circle of friends.
All in all, summer has been just what we needed – a slowing down from the incredibly hectic pace of the last school year.
We are gearing up to start again, but with two fewer schools to deal with, things should be at least a little calmer.
At least a girl can hope…