It's August

Ahhhh...a week of relative freedom......sorta....    Most of my tutoring kids are done for the summer now except for my 'regulars', and Vacation Bible School is over (yea).   I need to be cleaning house, and I got the laundry done, but  that's about it so far. I should be vacuuming and cleaning the cat box right now, but I am procrastinating.


It's really, really hot outside. I think that I just read that the temps in Topeka were topping out around 112 degrees.  It said it was 96 here at 2:50; I'm not sure if we were accurate or not. It seems like a big discrepancy even for the distance.  It just feels hot that's for sure. 


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Whew!

Whew! What a week!  Those are the primary words that come to mind today.  It has been just a crazy week.  I've been 'in charge"...or the 'organizer' for VBS for the last three or four years, and this year has been, by far and away, the very hardest week EVER.  I know a lot of it just comes down straight to me....I just haven't been into it this year...which I find disturbing, because I have LOVED VBS in the past.  Things have gone well enough this week, nothing really comes to mind that makes me think that something has gone wrong, or spoiled the activities...I also think the kids have had a good time  I can't help feeling, however, that I have failed somewhere.  I' don't think I've necessarily discovered it yet, ....

I feel like I need about a two or three day period to just SLEEP....I know that I wouldn't be able to do that....my body doesn't let me sleep past when I usually wake up in the morning, but it sure sounds inviting. I hope I get some tme to veg this weekend.  The only problem....my house is a pigsty from neglect this week. I did clean up the kitchen this morning and cleared off the dining room table that had been the catch all all week.  Now I need to sweep, vacuum and dust, and that will help.    ...oh, and do laundry...geesh...I have quite a bit of it done, because I've been able to at least transfer clothes fto washer, to dryer, but that's usually as far as it goes...then it sits in the clothes basket....or if it does come out, then it is stacked in another clothesbasket, and we've been living out of them. I need to have some time to put clothes away, too.  DRUDGERY!!!....
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;..........................   Maybe I need a vacation!


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Vacation Bible School 2011

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Swimming Lessons Summer 2011

I have ended up having a little fish on my hands.  The child who would not even put her head/face in the water at the beginning of last summer, is more than willing to spend most of her time in the pool, going under and back up, under and back up, etc.   She LOVES swimming. 

Allison took lessons this summer from Stephanie, a local girl who just graduated from high school this past May.  Stephanie is Wonderful!  She is so sweet and a really good role model for Allison.  We will miss Stephanie as she moved to California to go to college right after we were finished with lessons.  

I am really proud of Allison...she does a really good job in the water. She loves swimming. Oftentimes anymore I wonder if we had an indoor pool where she could swim year round, would that be something that she could/would do on a more serious competitive manner or is she too young to even think about that?

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Swimming Lessons 2011

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Happy 50th Anniversary, Margie and Glen

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Poor baby...

My poor girl has a bad summer cold.....  I can tell that she is feeling pretty miserable.  She actually sat down in the easy chair tonight in the living room and looked at this bag of board books that I sent home with her from the radio station that were there since she was a baby.  She actually sat there for a long time.  She doesn't do that ordinarily.  She sounds really congested. She was a little bit better spirits tonight than she was on Monday night though, so that is good. She was kinda whiny and easily crying.  She tells me that she's not sleeping well either. She wants to go swimming in the worst way, but I'm afraid to take her in the water with this cold.  Hopefully she will get over her cold soon.

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Lovin' cousins

I LOVE this photo...we were in the hotel hallway the Sunday morning following Debbie and Chris' wedding, and Allison was down on the floor and Shelby came and put her head to Allison's head....so sweet!!!

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T-Ball Summer 2011

These photos were actually taken a few weeks ago, but I haven't taken time to update the blog lately.  We were supposed to have the first t-ball game this past Wednesday evening, but lo and behold about mid-afternoon the skies opened up and wouldn't quit for a long time. I told Allison that  I thought her game was cancelled unless she wanted to swim to the bases.  Hopefully, we will have our first game this Wednesday.

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It's JUNE!!!

...which means only two and a half months until school starts again!!!!! Yee haw!!!

Who'da thought how hard a 6-year old would be to keep entertained?  Well, the fact the weather has been super funky does not help at all.   We've had hot weather, really hot, where you don't want to go out because it's hot and sticky; then you've had cold weather; then we've had rainy weather, grass is wet, weather dreary, rain and storms; it's been virtually impossible to get into a summer routine yet.  Not to mention, none of the summer activities really begin until June  Summer reading program at the library begins next Tuesday for five or six weeks, so that will help. We were supposed to have our first t-ball game last night, but, guess what? It was rained out!  Today we really don't have anything to do (Allison-wise). I on the other hand really have TONS to do but none that I can engage Allison in helping with (i.e., tutoring planning, VBS planning, etc.)  The stability and routine of the school year is really good for us!

We already had one friend over earlier in the week to have a playdate; I think we will try to have someone else over tomorrow. HA!

This weekend thankfully does have a few things going on.  The Big Blue BBQ is in town which is kind of like a festival; free movie Saturday morning for the kids; Days of '49 at Hanover Friday and Saturday with parades both nights.  Awww...the weekend will provide some opportunities...thank goodness! :)


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