The idea of making a post has seemed more like a chore lately--I think it's the heat. I don't want to do much of anything, and yet I have so much to do! Yesterday I had some things I planned on getting done and then I fell asleep for a few hours! Oops. Today I am all doped up on Diet Coke so I'm raring to go. Here are the rest of the photos that I said I would post days and days ago:
Here's Jeremy at his sixth grade "promotion." He made the all A's and B's Honor Roll:
Here is Jeremy with a group of his friends. Sadly only one of them will be going to the same middle school, but I think they will still keep in touch:
Here is Kaylynn terrorizing Jeremy at his Sixth Grade picnic. I have some good video of him being a goofball, but I have to figure out how to post it:
This is Amy's kindergarten promotion. She is in the lower right corner. I was a bit grumbly about her promotion because I think it's silly to do in kindergarten and it made me miss Kaylynn's 8th Grade promotion (Dan went), but it was really cute--they sang a lot of fun songs:
A picture with Amy's friends Layla and Jackie:
Anna's class had a family picnic on the last day. The fruit you see is half of the fruit salad that I cut up for Jeremy's party (at a cost of about 30 dollars that filled 2-2 gallon bags) that they did not even get to. Amazingly we managed to eat it all in the next week:
This is Kaylynn before the Eighth Grade Dance. She got a picture taken with her friends, but we haven't gotten them yet. I'm not sure if Dan took pictures of her graduation because I had the camera for Amy's and he had the video camera. I'll have to see if I can get a video clip. But for now, here is my beautiful daughter who really likes polka dots:
I'm amazed that I made it through that last week of school. I'm not really good with that crazy-busy lifestyle that many people embrace. I try to avoid it, but often it finds me and there is not much I can do about it.
It's Friday! I'm going togo get the Friday Fill-ins . . .
Okay, here they are:
1. If I could be a fly on the wall I would spy on the North Korean government.
2. Jealousy is destructive but inevitable.
3. When I see a shooting star my wish would be that I could have more energy. I am just so dang tired all the time!
4. I'd rather be cold than hot any day!
5. Certain songs when I hear them make me wanna shake my booty.
6. If time were in a bottle where would the genie go?
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to finish watching The Great Escape, tomorrow my plans include seeing Chris, Tiffani, Evan, Jared and MEGAN! and Sunday, I want to hold Megan alot!
1. Holidays in the summer are explosive.
2. Well-done hot dogs are my favorite things to grill.
3. My thoughts are usually a chaotic mess.
4. Sleeping in my own bed after a week at girl's camp is what I'm most looking forward to this weekend!
5. My favorite book so far this summer is Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood.
6. Running five miles is the best way to begin a day. Too bad I am incapable of doing that.
7. And as for the weekend, last night I soaked in Dave and Lorena's spa for a few hours, today (Saturday) I worked on cleaning up the paint mess in the living room and then went swimming, and Sunday, I want to really and truly kick back!
Girl's camp was pretty fun for sleeping in an A-frame and only getting four hours of sleep four nights in a row. I had an awesome cabin filled with great girls who loved to read! Someone was definitely inspired! Most of them were also Office fans, but I had to discourage a couple of "That's what she said" jokes. My cabin was at the top of the hill, so I was able to work on getting "buns of steel." My biggest challenge (unless you count the fact that we had to back in when parking our cars) was a girl who wanted to go out at night to other cabins and do pranks. Apparently she is known at camp for doing this. But I love her, she's a lot of fun and a good person. I got to talk to a lot of people, leaders and girls, and looking back I think I must have talked to or meet about 50 new people.
The food looked delicious, but I avoided most of it due to what is probably my gallbladder. For the last four or five months I have had a squeezing pain in my right side, and the doctor says it is probably my gallbladder--I have an ultrasound coming up to check things out. (I feel really old writing about this, realizing I am getting to an age when conversations with other people consist of reports of various bodily aches and pains.) She told me to cut out any fatty foods for three weeks, and see if that helps. I think things got worse before they got better (plus I think I ate something with lots of cheese that day), because I had a really bad night with pain and weird sensations that resulted one hour of sleep. Looking at the silver lining, I did get to watch Splendor in the Grass, an old movie with Natalie Wood that I remembered from my childhood--but I should save that for another post. Anyways, the horrible night has given me fat-a-phobia, and I have cut out anything high in fat, which was most of the camp food.
I was able to do two of my favorite things: hiking and volleyball. It was hard to live without secular reading for a week, but I am still alive and mentally stable . . . ish.
Here's a picture of us Ninja Turtles:
Here's a picture of all the kids who were at the scrapping party, some sleeping (including Dan in the blue sleeping bag), and some watching a movie:
This is what happens to an egg when you leave it soaking in vinegar for a couple of days. It actually bounces:
Kaylynn was upset about something, and this is how compassionate we all are--everyone comes and mimics her, starting with Dan. I'm sure someday she'll talk about this with her therapist:
Someone was asking what the Great Taste was like, and this is a picture of one of the booths that were set up side by side in a couple of rows. Look at me--you would think I would have a happier look on my face being surrounded by so much food:
Here are some rolls that Anna made from a cookbook she bought at the book fair. They were actually supposed to be pretzels but she decided she didn't want to do all that work. They're the frozen rolls, decorated with food coloring:
The next couple of pictures are of Anna after her class production of Twelfth Night. She played Mariah. These are her friends Annabelle and Eliza:
And this is Jeremy wielding a sword in his class performance of Hamlet. He was one of the guards:
This is the state of our living room right now. We were going to paint last weekend, but after my sleepless night and Dan having to work very late Friday night, we didn't get as far as we liked. Between Dan having to work a bit at home, me getting ready for camp, three "graduations", various end-of-school parties, and my attempt to finish the book for the book club I'm hosting, our painting prep is going pretty slow. But the kids love the new couch arrangement. They have been taking turns sleeping on it:
And that's all for now, but stay tuned for promotion and party pictures!
I'm so proud of myself that I remembered on my own to do this! I got about 1 hour of sleep last night, so maybe that's the secret. We'll see how weird my answers might be:
1. A smile is best if it's not perfect.
2. Taboo is my favorite board or card game.
3. I would love to have more of the outdoors in my life and less worrying.
4. When I think of the Summer Solstice, I think of Stonehenge.
5. I just remembered I need to go to the library to return some things.
6. One of my favorite song lyrics goes like this: "There's a little bit of something me in everything in you." (Matchbox Twenty)
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to paint prep for living room, tomorrow my plans include chauffering to Saturday school, dance festival costume fitting and Shakespeare party and being Dan's lovely paint assistant and Sunday, I want to rest???
Wow, I did that pretty fast for me. The only one that took me a while was the favorite board game. There are a lot of good ones like Trivial Pursuit, Tribond, Apples to Apples, etc. I only hate Monopoly.
Have a great weekend everyone!
Perhaps you have been blinded my my new background color. I have a million and one things to do, so of course I sat down and started messing with my blog. I know it is not as beautiful as everyone else's blog, but I don't have the technical skills for anything fancy, and I'm usually pretty happy with simplicity. (Plus this only took me about three minutes.) I'm just not sure about yellow yet. Maybe I need to add Coldplay's song "Yellow" to make it complete. I guess I had better get back to work, or at least take a nap so the machine that is "I" can run more efficiently. I just needed a little bit of dead brain time (or brain dead time?).
