Sunday, July 17, 2011



This is me, this morning, taken with the webcam but filterized with Photoshop, just for fun. I am really looking forward to the hair cut I will be getting while I am in California! I had a slow start to the day, sleeping in until 10 a.m., thanks to earplugs. Owen had a friend sleep over last night, and they got up pretty early, as I expected. Luckily Scot got up and I was able to catch up on some sleep. When I got up, I saw the email about the adopters being approved for Dottie. They came and picked her up this afternoon. I hope she is settling in well. I gave them the blanket she had been sleeping on while here so she would have something familiar with her. The timing was actually pretty great since we are leaving on a series of three trips and she would have to be shuffled off to someone else's house while we were gone anyway.

Yesterday Scot and I saw Horrible Bosses. It was pretty funny. Next on my list is Harry Potter, but I will wait until the crowds die down. Rio and Kung Fu Panda are both at the cheapy theater right now, so I'll probably take the kids to see those if we get a chance. Our days seem to get booked up pretty fast. I'm hoping to get one more trip in to Elitch's this week since it's supposed to be pretty hot. It's easy to spend the day at the water park part of it!

The kids are signed up for their fall sports, which will be baseball and soccer. I knew Declan wanted to do baseball again, but I was surprised when Owen said he wanted to, also. They both have friends playing, so I'm hoping they get the teams I requested for them. I still need to get school supplies, but that can wait until we're done travelling. We'll still have two weeks left of summer after we get back from Pittsburgh.

Friday, July 8, 2011

I am back, but knows for how long! It is hard in the summer, not because the kids are home (although that can be hard sometimes), but mostly because we have no real schedule. I don't seem to do very well with less structure to my days. I am trying to not worry about it and just be flexible, but it seems like I am never home at the right time to think about dinner since we are often taking off for spontaneous excursions. I guess I need to focus on crock pot meals but I can't seem to get it together enough for that, either.

We just got back from 6 days of camping. It was nice to have the pop-up for the extended time since we are usually just camping for a weekend. I had enough food and only had to get more ice and milk as the week went on. The weather was nice, apart from the day we arrived and the night before we left.

I am being summoned to play Lego Harry Potter, so I will have to tell more tales of summer later!