When I decided to take the summer off, apparently I mentally took off until September. Life with two elementary age children really is busier than any other time we've experienced so far. Babies are high maintence, but they don't have spelling homework.
Then there was that time before kids, just watching tv, exercising, cooking dinner later. I love these boys and I know I'll miss this when they are grown, but dang if this rat race high speed chase that is school age isn't draining. I'm not a go-go-go person by any stretch of them imagination, in fact I just folded laundry from Sunday, and that was all because one more thing was added to my plate that day and kinked the entire chain of how I usually operate.
Neurodivergent much? I need someone to diagnose me formally so Jeremy has to admit just how off kilter I can be.
Anyway, life lately. Also, ignore my sentence structures... I teach English and know how they should look, but I'm typing on here as I speak. Plus I was listening to a podcast recap of Acts 20 this morning and giggled and cried my way through, the podcaster mentioned how Paul wrote -- and if the Apostale Paul can use more run-on sentences than he should -- then so can I.
I repotted the front terra cotta pots over Labor Day weekend. The mums weren't mumming anymore. We had such a wet summer and then BAM! September has been bone dry. Far too dry for a lazy gardener.
I grabbed a few flower varieties that supposedly don't care if I forget that I have responsibilities. If someone could relay that info to the shrub I rebought and need to replant, please have it pot itself.
I finally got my hands on Elliot's Kindergarten graduation photo. He's such a cute little goofball. I wish I could write down everything that comes out of his mouth, but I never remember it all.
Really both boys keep me laughing, they definitely got my Dad and Granny's sense of humor. Not too long ago I told them to be sure to water the dogs before I left for work and Harrison's response was "And be sure they get plently of sunlight."
Nothing special here, just walking back to the car after dinner in downtown Lafayette one Saturday. I was going to take a photo of the boys and a sweet lady stopped and asked if I wanted a picture of all 4 of us.
This was the real excitement of summer. I never even posted about it on IG.
On our way home from dropping the kids off with my mom, the day before we went to Brazil on a mission trip, our car engine just gave up. As we were driving Jeremy said the back window kept getting dirty, then the oil light started blinking. We pulled off the road and a big fat trail of oil had followed us down the road. The engine blew a gasket, the car was so done (and I had just put new tires on it). We had to call a tow truck and beg a friend to come get us from the nearest truck stop, 1.5 hours from home.
I've repeatedly said I was driving this until the tires fell off, and technically they did since they all needed replacing that Monday. Then Thursday the engine blows a gasket and would have to have been totally replaced!
So we had to buy a new car, and spent any spare second we had on that mission trip trying to line one up; just so we could show up and sign papers when we got home. Not exactly how I wanted to end the summer.
After much negotion with Elliot and his constant waking up at hours that just don't work, we finally got one of those alarm clocks for kids that show colors.
I has helped a bit, they know to stay in bed until the clock is at the very least - yellow. Ideally they'd wait for green, but Elliot is a yolo child and convinced he is going to miss a second of daylight.
It's been mostly successful, there have only been a few monrings where has been up way way earlier than I want to see them.
I need to gather up some more photo from the summer and share them. Vacation. Mission trip fun.
