Summer is here and already half of it has gone by. The kids are having a great summer at
daycare. They are swimming almost every
day. It all depends on the weather. All
that sun and exercise makes them tan, hungry and tired, although they won’t
admit the latter. They beg to stay up
late every night. They have discovered
Duck Dynasty and watch every single episode that they can.
Summer just ticks by too quickly. We get settled into the summer routine, then
we go on vacation and settle into that relaxed mode, then we are back to work
and daycare so our routine changes once again. In less than six weeks, they
will be going to school again. That
means we have to go school shopping (yuk). If I am lucky, we’ll have one really
good day of shopping and get most of their clothes then.
So with summer, we look forward to our vacation time
together as a family. We traveled north again to Portland, Ontario. The weather was nice, not as hot as last year
but we only had one day that was gray with rain sprinkles. The lake was high
this year as we saw some patio furniture on the docks half under water. The fishing was great. Elliott, for the
second year in a row, caught the most.
However, he rarely has a fishing pole out of his hand. Olivia did not fish much this year. She liked
paddling around on a sail board. John
fished more this year than he has in the past but Elliott reeled in the
keepers. Actually, I reeled in one
keeper and Elliott and I supplied a bass dinner before we left. Our week together went so quickly. Always good to return home and get Ruddie. We
missed him so much. He was glad to be
back home as well.
Here are just a few photos:
And then our normal was violated. Early Monday morning, without going into all
the details, John’s gas tank was punched and apparently the intruders heard
Elliott and I talking as he had woke me up.
We called 911 and by the time the officers and fire department personnel
left, it was 4:00 am. Our first workday
back and John had to call in so he could take care of his truck. This event has left us feeling violated. In all the years John has lived in the house,
he has never had any problems. So we now
have a security system. That however, has not helped Elliott sleep better at
night. We are working on that.
One activity that will help Elliott fall asleep starts today,
July 29. Let’s just say, Are you ready
for some football? Ready or not, we are
jumping into the fall sports season. Olivia will play soccer and Elliott will
be playing football.
Schedules will really get busy with school, homework,
practice and games. I am excited and
looking forward to supporting our children and their teammates this fall. Go
Panthers!
See I have jumped right into fall and we are in the middle
of summer. I’ll slow down, as the days go by fast enough.
Our summer has been full to date:
- Swimming
- Ticks
- Mowing
- Weeding
- Harvesting
- Hiking
- Vacationing
- Reading
- S’mores
- BBQ’s
- Lots of parties
- Friends and family
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