The twins had their last day of first grade today. School met for one hour, yes one hour only!
After school we had some friends over and the kids had a big trampoline water fight.
Then we went to our town pool for a couple of hours before we got rained out.
And I wonder why I’m tired all the time 
(Can’t believe my babies are second graders now!!!!)
We’ve got another virus between the kids which totally sucks! I don’t remember any summer that we’ve dealt with so many illnesses!
It’s a beautiful sunny day though and the healthy kid and a half want to be out. So we went to my sister in law’s pool.
Instead of being in the pool, however, they’re hanging in the hot tub! I can relate to that
Do you think kids should be contained to the house when they’re sick?
This is what the summer’s been looking like so far…pool, pool and more pools! (With illness and trauma mixed in…)
You would think I’d be living it up a little, right!? Wrong! I’m so tired! (And that’s why you haven’t been hearing from me.) But these kids, I tell you, are loving their lives of leisure.
The twins had 2 weeks of half day camp. Tomorrow is the end.
Oh good camp is ending.
They said in unison.
Finally we can get a break.
Can you even imagine these little guys are lamenting about the strain of attending camp for 10 days (which they APPEAR to love!)? And then in the next breath is the daily beg request for ice cream.
Oh and incidentally my son got up the nerve to go down the water slide at our town pool. He ended up losing his balance and coming down headfirst and backwards. And this, of course, was my fault.
But even though we’re in a heat wave (and thus frequenting some sort of pool everyday) you won’t ever hear me complain about the steamy weather. I still love summer, dammit!
Who else is dead tired?
(I know my friend is…she just texted me to say “I’m so tired I’ve been taking advantage of the Starbucks treat receipt!” )
I love this day.
The sun is blazing. The skies are blue. The pool is perfect.
The kids are enjoying watermelon on the grass!
It’s the beginning of a great summer holiday weekend. (Only sad part being that the summer flies from here.)
Happy 4th everyone!
We plan to be outside everyday. How about you?
Hey have you ever heard of futureme.org? It’s a web site where you can create an email to send to the future. I heard about it last summer and today I received an email I wrote exactly one year ago.
Well, I must have been high when I wrote it, or else in need of a lot of positive affirmation. Wanna know what I wrote? Here it is:
Dear FutureMe,
Are you living in that GC house you saw again today?
Are M, M & L fighting all day and driving you crazy? Remember what blessings they are and how blessed you are in general.
Don’t sweat the small stuff!
I love you.
Yes I am living in that house I toured one year ago. And yes my children still fight constantly. And those are good reminders to myself. The ‘i love you’ is very strange and embarrassing and I can’t fathom that I wrote it.
And speaking of the future, I am reading a completely riveting book, The Passage, by Justin Cronin. Can’t. put. it. down. Which is why I haven’t posted here in a while. In fact, I locked myself in the bathroom last night for a few moments while my little guy was having a tantrum and read a few pages! It would be great to have a wireless reading device for this one though as it is well over seven hundred pages, heavy to lug around.
Not that I really have the time to be carrying a book around to read…yet I continue to fanatasize about more visits to the adult area of the pool…
We’ve been going to the kiddie pool, however, at least three times a week and I noticed my girl’s hair was getting a green hue to it. I had always thought green hair was a myth but there it was, right before me. I sought out some advice on Facebook and ended up finding Ultraswim shampoo at Walgreen (thanks Joanne!). That shampoo is great. If you find it pick up more than one because the stores can’t seem to keep them in stock.
It’s been so hot here but you won’t hear me complain. Summer is my season and I say bring on the heat!
What have you been doing to deal with the hot weather?
Well, it’s very exciting here today because grandma and grandpa are in town. The kids are wildly happy and are all over them. The first thing my girl said to my mom after she hugged her was,
Grandma you have old skin on your knees.
Then she looks at her puzzled and says,
Why don’t you have children?
We were in the pool earlier today and I was pushing my little guy around singing ‘”everybody’s gone surfin” and he shouts out,
I know who sings that…The Boys!
He went on talking about his favorite subject, cars…
Why are there so many Lincolns? Oh, I know they use them for taxi caps! Mommy what color was your little car, the Chrysler Pizzeria?
Actually Chrysler Pizzeria is about as good a name as PT Cruiser!
He also loves volcanoes and learned about Mt Vesuvius in camp this week and told me all about it…
There was a big volcano that covered everything in fire and dash.
My little one was thrilled to be swimming in her aunt’s
hot pool
But then she got too hot and wanted to go back to the
cold tub
And speaking of which I was talking about why certain foods belong in the freezer and my son says
otherwise the ice cream will turn to melt!
I hope we all don’t turn to melt this weekend…gonna be a hot one!
If your child needs to poop, puke or piss, please remove him or her from the town pool to do it.
If your child has recently done any of the above unexpectedly, please do not take him or her for a visit to the town pool afterwards.
If your child pukes in those bushes right next to that town pool, please do not then bring him or her into the pool.
You see, every time your kid does one of those things in the pool, it closes for at least one very long hour.
And, it is usually right at the beginning of that very long hour, that MY children innocently and excitedly arrive at the pool in this 100 degree weather ready to cool off.
And then it is really torture for me to deal with them not fun for any of us.
Thanks a lot for your cooperation.
One of the consequences of a continuously buzzing brain is schedules, and lots of them. Few could understand when I would awaken one twin newborn to feed her when the other was feeding as well. Or when I would plan to be home during the times that they napped. I think, unbeknownst to us at the time, we even alienated family members with my our “rigidity”.
Yes I tend to be more of the Type A kind of momma but also any twin mom will tell you that schedules are a must for survival during those early years. I still plan to be home most days in the early afternoon so my kids can all lay down for a rest and we will sometimes leave events early so that they can be in bed by 8 p.m. (because no matter when they go to bed, they awaken at 6 a.m.)
But this festive 4th of July weekend was different. To start with, we went to the pool early Saturday. Before long, several of our friends arrived. The kids had fun frolicking and I even got to have a 20 minute vacation at the adult pool with my equally grateful mom friends while the dads watched them.
We thought we would stay until they stopped having fun…which never happened! We finally dragged them out of the pool late in the afternoon as I was fearful they were frying (which they were…..one sunblock application per 5 hours in the sun is not enough!) They hadn’t napped and were cranky messes when we got home. But we all had fun.
On Sunday we went to a pool party late afternoon with the idea we’d leave around 7. Although I could not relax for one second with a thousand kids in the pool, my guys had the time of their lives. The biggest thrill was jumping off the diving board…what a sense of accomplishment they felt when the entire party cheered them on!
The kids also experienced their very first fireworks.
It was exhilarating watching them. My son was cheering like he was at a sports event and the girls were dancing under the stars worshipping the lights…unaware that they are usually sleeping at that hour.
I’m realizing that they are getting older fast and it’s good sometimes to let go of plans and be able to cherish every special moment.
I was thinking all last weekend about how I could write about Father’s Day with a tribute to my husband but found myself struggling with how to best articulate my thoughts.
So we were at the pool on Saturday and as I trudged around in 6 inches of water I noticed that many of the parents, like myself, appeared as though they were going through the motions of having a fun time. Some just looked plain miserable! I’ll even admit I often glanced longingly at the adult pool, fantasizing about having an hour to myself to snooze in the sun.
But there was my husband, completely immersed and splashing and swimming with the kids…
This picture about sums it up better than anything I could write. He was the ONLY adult completely submerged in that pool. I even saw other kids gravitating towards him.
He is a stellar dad.
So I want to give a post Father’s Day shout out to my awesome husband…we love and appreciate you!
AH summer.
I pull out the kiddie pool, fill er up and the kids frolick. Not!
My kids have a problem with little things like Biting, Pushing, Hitting, Shoving. You get the idea.
SO mom came up with a great new game one 90 degree day.
It goes like this. We all play nicely in the pool or get sprayed with the hose. Mommy just loves this game and is sure the neighbors are overhearing these commands,
Stop pulling down your sisters bathing suit or you’ll GET THE HOSE AGAIN.
If you bite your brother, you’ll GET THE HOSE AGAIN.
Mom, don’t spray me again!
Has the sadist within me come out in my parenting? Because I enjoyed this a little too much!
Hmm, what would Hannibel Lecter say?
