Summer Days are Here

Okay, after a week at the lake (sick with strep), a week of VBS prep, a crazy week of VBS itself, and a week of an icky cold, I'm finally ready to start summer for real. Last week was supposed to be a chill out and hang out sort of week, but it wound up being an awful, sickly, sneezy, grouchy week. I'm MUCH better now, though.

We did manage to have some fun last week, I guess. Monday was a totally lazy day, Tuesday, we watched Allison S. and went to the pool for a few hours. I had garden Tuesday night. As usual, I wasn't looking forward to going, but it turned out to be a nice evening. Wednesday we had an awesome lunch at Trisha's house (chicken fajitas!) and picked up our farm share. Thursday, we all met Tim at lunchtime, and Zachary got to pick a new bike. He's not super-excited about it yet. He's pretty sure his old bike was just fine. Even though his knees hit the handlebars when he rode. Friday, we managed to get to the library and grocery store. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was in on audiobook. We're all kind of excited about that. Jackie came over for dinner and spent the night. She did some water balloons and crafts with the boys. The loved it. We watched Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince LATE into the night. The boys weren't in bed until after 11 PM. Meanwhile, Jackie was asleep on the couch and Tim and I were almost asleep asking them if they would just watch the end in the morning.

Today was productive for a change. I cleaned out the horrid basement. Really? An entire day just to make it respectable? Ick. I packed up 2 big boxes for goodwill and delivered the ball pit to friends with younger kids. The little tykes playset that was down there AND the "box house" went away as well! The bad news is there was evidence of a mouse, and I'm completely grossed out by that evidence. There's more work to be done (including setting mousetraps), but it will have to wait for another day.

Dinner tonight was yummy, and mostly from the farmshare - "Chard-Tomato Peasant Pasta" and a big, delicious salad. Not sure what is Peasant-ish about the pasta, but it WAS pretty good.