June 5, 2017

Welcome back, my lovely bead program!

Today Austin did his morning jobs, vacuumed out the Escalade and washed the outside, cleaned out all of the piano music in the cupboards of the library, organized the toys under the stairs, rode three miles on the exercise bike, and all before lunch!

Yep, we started the bead program up again today.  It had everyone bustling around busy as a beaver.  I don't care if it only lasts a day, it's been such a lovely day. :)

The girls needed a few things for girls camp, so we went out shopping and left the boys home during Lance's nap.  We had so much fun!  We found some fun, new summer clothes (that weren't on our shopping list, but we bought them anyway!), and I snagged up a few new pairs of shoes (my shoe wardrobe is always a little lacking), and we got some cute secret sister gifts for the girls to take to camp.  Then we stopped at Harmons for some snacks for the girls to take to camp.  Emma informed me that one of the girls in her tent announced that there was a four-bag minimum candy rule to be in her tent.  So she just HAD to have at least four bags of candy.  I finally said, "Which of your friends made that rule?"  She laughed, and said, "Me."

So she threw five bags into the cart.  Oh boy.

Greg had a rare work dinner at The Rib and Chop House.  So the kids helped me make waffles and strawberries, sausage, and scrambles eggs for dinner.  It was delicious.  They all thought so.  Then I took the little boys out for a swim.  As soon as I said swim, Lance's eyes lit up.  He ran and got his swimsuit (he calls it his "swimsoup") and was ready to go.  And wow is he a swimmer.  He just flops and jumps and kicks and swims.  He's under the water more than he is up.  I have to watch him every single second.  But it is sheer joy on his face as he does it.  I still can't convince him to wear a floatie. I've now taught him to grab the edge and make his way, hand over hand, back to the step.  He's starting to be able to come up on his own for a breath, almost.  But he can hold his breath for a really long time.  It's crazy.

We got in our jammies and watched a couple episodes of Relative Race to end the night.  It's a good show.  I'm touched by people's innate need to connect with and find members of their family.  We just need our family.  And we all know it.  It's a beautiful thing to see.

I've still felt pretty sick today.  But I can tell I'm on the mend. So it'll be back to running in the morning.  One more day and the girls will be off to camp.  I'm going to miss them!  They mean the world to me.  I love being their mom.  I am so very blessed.