Mid-Summer

Off to the second day of the second week of swimming lessons today. The monsters swim from 9:45-10:20 every morning... and we are lucky enough to have a neighbor with an in ground pool so we reinforce swimming lessons a couple of times a week in their pool. Glee's hair is as green as any respectable mermaid and Thomas is trying, but still doesn't like his head under water! He's getting there, jumping off the edge yesterday.

I get to do a little reading while they swim in the morning. And we have been heading to the library a couple of times a week to stock up on Rainbow Fairy books and Bionicles and Captain Underpants and Robotech movies that they watch with X. Wow, who knew the library would have so much cool stuff? I have a couple of books out now for fun, one knitting book and a couple of reading books. I read Odd Girl Out about girl aggression and bullying. That should come in handy for girl scouts next year.

We had an amazing time in Colorado. Glee bathed 5 puppies one day, and spent a lot of time playing with them and kissing them. I held my new niece who was the shining star of perfection. She's lovely and reminds me of all the reasons I don't want to have another baby. I spent a lot of time talking to my youngest brother, helping him figure things out and mature a little (I hope). I spent an evening or two gazing at the milky way, out on the deck, as a cool evening breeze blew by and cooled the temps down to the high 70's. We even got to go to a wedding reception that was unlike any event I have ever attended in my entire life. The groom, my brother's friend, is 27, his new bride, 43. She has five kids ranging in age from 18-25. It was a real interesting event... and reaffirmed my hillbilly roots. Scary.

Now we are looking forward to this weekend spent on my aunt and uncle's time share boat, cruising out to Catalina and hopefully seeing dolphins along the way. Glee is convinced the mermaids will sing to us at some point. I wonder how I could make that happen...

Summer, in full swing, is really nice. I have lots of work to do for PTA before school starts, and that kinda sucks, and also organizing stuff for girl scouts next year. Thomas will be old enough for cub scouts, and I want to make sure he has that opportunity. So much for volunteering. I am hoping to actually get some more paying jobs (and forcing myself to make time to do those jobs) since everyone in our house will be gone from at least 8:30am until at least 3pm everyday (except me, who will be trying to drum up business!).

Hope your summer is peachy too!