Those wheels keep on turnin'

You can actually see the wheels turning in my kids latley and sometimes I just don't know where they are going!!

Take this situation....... Yesterday(Monday) Molly came up with these two thoughts all on her own even before school started!

The first conversation happened while we were getting her snack ready for the day.

Molly: Oh mom! Mrs. S told us everything we would be learning in kindergarten! If we knew everything we didnt have to be there!! Guess what!! I know it all!!!

Me: thats great Molly!! Ya' know what that means right??? You go to 1st grade!!! You get to be at school day!!!

Molly: no mom!!! It means I get to take a break!!

Good try sweetie---you still have to go to kindergarten.

Second conversation-this was said as she was passing her playroom to go brush her teeth or something.

She knew we were having company that evening for dinner.

Molly-(a big gasp) Mom! I can NOT go to school, you need to set that timer and I need to clean up my playroom because it is a MESS

Mom- no, you can still go to school, I'll set it after you have your lunch!!

Well clearly both those wheels were going in the direction of "I do not want to go to school)

This next scenario is a little more mindboggling.....

this involves Nick who is 14 and in the i either love you or hate you moods

I fed the kids about an hour or hour and 30 minutes before our guests and us would be eating. So during dinner Nick brings over his story he is writing. Just for his own personal reasons..not school work or anything.

Nick-hey Mom I wrote another sentence for the story I'm writing do you wanna read it.....

Mom- thinking in my head..."seriously"?..out loud....um maybe after our guests leave.

after about 5 minutes

Nick-Mom does this word right here need to be capitalized in this sentence?

Mom- in my head...again?? seriously??? You didnt care when I offered to proofread it yesterday when i read the whole darn thing. Out loud-Yes Nick, it does

after 10 minutes or so

Nick comes over to give me a hug while im still sitting at the dinner table with our guests......

sigh...im still trying to figure that one out!!

Day One down!

Well today was day 1 of school and I tell ya I am already missing the fact that before the kids go to bed I can't give them the "noone better wake me up to early" talk!! Just kidding I actually never did that but I sure am going to miss not being able to "sleep in" until like 7 or 7:30!

Nick was up bright and early at 6 am and got himself up and out right on time. Joe was next up at 6:50 and got himself up and out. I woke Molly up around 7:20 and we got her all set. She picked her outfit and told me the night before that I could put curls in her hair. I was thrilled!! I didn't have to ask her if she would want me too!! She was definitly nerrvous but I was very thrilled that she had no tears while we were waiting in line! When I picked her up though I saw her red blotchy face and knew she cried. The teacher said she did fine though and that she was just nervous! We took her out to McDonalds on the wayhome. Nick came home and was very happy that all his teachers seemed really nice! joe seems okay with his teachers too.

Oh, and yes I was a bad mom and did not get first day of school photos of the boys.

Poor "Sunshine"

we had to put Sunshine-our lemon tree out for yard waste removal. She was dying and I have no idea why but we had some water leaking from somewhere onto the wood floor. So Sunshine is out as is the container we planted her in.

is it fall????

Well lets see cooler temps, fog over my pool and the Pumpkin Pie Spice creamer i'm using in my coffee latley sure points to fall!!! It's all good with me though! I love fall!!!

I discovered something!

First off I discovered when I wieghed myself yesterday that even with going to Disney where we ate all our meals out and going to South Dakota where the majority of our meals we out at restaraunts, I still wiegh what I did when i stopped going to Wieght Watchers in the beginning of June! That is FANTASTIC news!! Anytime I was on a diet or whatever before I would have surely gained some wieght back by now! Yay me!!
Now in just about 2 weeks the kids will all be in school. Molly starts kindergarten so she will only be gone for a half day. But I am looking forward to it because it will enable me to establish some sort of routine for myself! I placed an order on Amazon for a DVD for a Kettlebell workout it will arrive next week sometime. I will be creating a little routine for doing the Kettlebell workout, some walks by myself or with friends and most of all a cleaning schedule for the house!
I have always loved Back To School time cause I look at it as a fresh start. Now this year it's a fresh start for myself too!!!

settling in!

Well here I am finally updating the darn blog here!! Well lets see, we had the canoe trip, went well over all, rained the weekend we were there again, this better not become a routine or we wont do it anymore!! Then the kids and I went to South Dakota to see my brother and sister in law and thier family! That was fun! We saw lots of neat things on the way and it was great seeing Tom and Chris and my nieces and nephew! It was fun but I think we took our Michigan weather with us!! I packed for high 80's temps and we had low 70's temps!! i had to buy Molly a sweatshirt and myself a hoodie while we were there!!!

August will FLY by!!!

Slow down time!!!! You go much to fast sometimes!!!!

So today we all need to make sure we are packed for canoeing! I am looking forward to it!! Nick and I will be sharing a canoe and Paul will be with Joe and Molly. That is the current plan and i dont see much need to change it! When we come back Sunday i'll need to get laundry started right awa y because Thursday we are taking off on a trip to see my brother and sister-in-law and thier family!! i am really looking forward to these trips!
Once we return it will be the start of Vacation Bible School at the church and I really need to get the kids ready for back to school!!! Phew theres a lot to do and get done this month!! all fun though so that is a very good thing!!!!