Camping!!!!

I can't think of a better summer time activity than camping. I love it. It's relaxing and refreshing, and I always feel recharged after being in the fresh, clean air away from city noises. The kids can get as dirty as they want and you don't have to worry about it getting on your freshly mopped floors, then you don't even have to worry about bathing them at bedtime... just let them soak when you get home. :)

This trip was extra great because we went with the boy scout troop. That meant there were plenty of parents there to help watch all the kids, and plenty of friends to occupy my kids, which meant I could actually sit down and enjoy the sunset with a hot cup of coffee.

Three days, two nights, and now we're back home with the bad part of camping... laundry and clean up. Blah.

Summer 2013

Well, I didn't really post that much over the school year. My kids were both in school and had different schedules with their extra circulars, plus I went back to work full time. I've been hanging on by a thread... Barely.

Towards the end of the school year show and tell was no longer well thought out and matching the theme of the week, but instead whatever plastic gold we could dig out of the car seat cushions in the parking lot. Reading logs got looser and looser on what I'd let fly as counting, and towards the end I even let my son pack his own lunch and he went to school with chips and a cookie. Yes, chips and a cookie.

My first reaction is, "Thank goodness it's summer!!" But that joy is shortly followed by fear. It's hot. The kids have energy. I partially work from home. How is this going to work???? Here we go on round two of finding 104 days worth of activities for them.

Day one it was my husbands idea to take them go carting. Go Daddy, great idea! We found a place that was reasonably priced and the kids had a blast!!