I'LL BE BACK

It is the last official Friday of summer and I have big things planned today!

The exterminator is coming.

Exciting right? I know you are asking yourself how I could pack so much into one day. It is a gift - my time management is exceptional. I can block one hour a day with stuff better than anyone.
Hope you have a great weekend. Pray you are able to worship in the house of the Lord this weekend with family and friends. See you Monday!

MONSTER TRUCKS AND X GAMES

We did not do everything on our list this summer. We never went and stayed at a hotel with a pool. We never went to the zoo. We did not take a single educational field trip like I planned.
We did do some things that were not on the list. We went to a mini- monster truck rally and we went to the local skate park. Here is the proof:)

Man child with his mad skilz!

SAFETY FIRST (Where is P when you need him?)

I have no clue where that stance came from. No one is more shocked to see it than me:)

MUD BOGGIN - or something like that.

Needless to say all my men were plotting how they could participate next year.

Dude get ready cuz it is ON!

I had a picture of the first aid kit that we had to use at the skate park, because we all knew that was inevitable. Alas, I took the picture on a public park table and the graffiti mongrels wrote some very not nice stuff that showed up just in the corner of the pic- so it was a no go. Yes I could have cropped it - but nahhh.

Hope you have a great day!

REALITY BITES

So it's a little after 7 on Wednesday and I need to confess something.

I have failed.

Our "2 week practice run" for school has officially flopped.

I am relishing in the luxury that is the fact I don't have to be walking out the door right this very moment to get the men children to their respective child care providers.

The fact that I will not spend hours today looking over data and color coding numbers (because the process matters) and trying to figure out what I did wrong in getting juniors to take a state test seriously and not be consumed with Prom has motivated me to do nothing but sit right here on my couch and enjoy the fact that I can.

Not to mention the boys have been plotting against me for two weeks with their nightly routines. They are the best tag team sleepers I have ever seen. One night MC 1 can't sleep, next night it is MC 2. I can not tell you the last night HH and slept in the same bed all night long. Even this morning when I arose from the 2 ft. long couch in the boys room, I found HH on the couch in the living room. He did not even know I had left him 4 hours earlier.

Sadly come next week reality will kick in and most likely kick me in the backside.
It is a kick I will gladly take.
Besides I can take a nap in the afternoon.

2 DOWN, 185 TO GO!

This is what happens when MC 2 gets his own straws.

And this is what happens when he finds my purple nail polish.

And I have signed up for 185+ days of this:)

(Actually I may let him start doing mine - he does a much better job!)

WHAT DID I DO?

To back track - so I was looking for a title for Friday's post and I thought

"hey isn't there a song about a peaceful easy feeling?"

"Yeah I think there is. I think it is by the Eagles."

So I googled song lyrics by the Eagles that included the phrase "peaceful easy feeling"
Uhm... the song is called "Peaceful Easy Feeling" by the Eagles.

Rocket science, people, I was destined for rocket science.

Okay so Friday I told you all the things I did not do. I know you were asking yourself all day long -

"What is she doing?"

Well lucky for you I took pics for most of the day.

First I made this:

Eat your heart out P-DUB! (and I say that with all the bravado of a woman who knows she would fall on her knees and weep if she was ever invited to the Lodge, and would enter with the most humility).

Then I refereed this age old battle of the wild:

Then the men children and I went here:

and came home with these:

Then we dined on this:

And that gets us just to lunch. I had pics for the rest of the day, BUT I HATE UPLOADING PICTURES TO BLOGGER! SO, I will recap:

I did laundry

cooked fajitas for supper (homemade pico & all)

bathed the kiddos and off to bed.

Feel better now don't you. You thought I sat around eating bon bons didn't you?

Well I did not!

It was Hershey's Dark Chocolate:)

and YES it is a K-I-N-G size!

PEACEFUL EASY FEELING

I've got a peaceful easy feeling today.
Today I don't go back to work.
Today I don't get everybody up and going and out the door by 7am.
Today I don't drop MC 2 off at daycare for the beginning of a 10 month stay.
Today I don't sit through hours of inservice thinking of all the things I could be doing in my room.
Today I don't give myself multiple pep talks about what the new school year holds.
Today I don't pray that God will use me in the classroom and bring those kids I need to minister to into my life.
Today I don't reunite with friends I have seen on a daily basis (excluding summers) for the last 10 years
Today I don't gather with my peeps at the local Mexican restaurant.
Today I don't do what has been my routine for a decade of my life.
Today I don't fall back into my comfort zone and the safety of what I know.
And today,
I've got a peaceful easy feeling.

WAITING ON FALL

MC 1 & I took a little trip to town the other day to finish up shopping for school supplies. While we out (and MC 2 free) we went to one of our local craft stores. Now I must say Christmas ornaments in August is just really, really wrong. It is as though we skip all the holidays just to get to the one we get stuff on. Don't get me wrong, I love Christmas as much as anyone and am looking forward to being able to decorate for it starting December 1st and not December 20th. However, I enjoy Thanksgiving as much, and the onset of fall, and fall fests and harvest festivals and all the goodies that come from September to November. I would hate to miss those.
Okay off the soap box and back to the point....
So while at the craft store I bought these:
and these
and this
Can you tell I am just a tad bit ready for September 1? Why September 1? Because according to our unofficial handbook of decorating that is when I can pull out the fall decor and go to town. Granted it will probably still be 99 degrees with 100% humidity, but it is the mind set people, it's the mindset.
Don't know what I am going to do with any of this. Make a wreath - OBVIOUSLY. Just don't know what kind. So if you have any suggestions I am all ears.
Hope you have a great Thursday!