Baseball games twice if not three times a week. Lots of rain. Chores from our chart getting done. Open gym for middle school basketball tryouts. 2 nieces birthdays. A trip to a scrapbooking store and out to lunch with my BFF. A lot of blonde in my hair. A basketball tournament. A graduation party. A movie date with Doug. A sleepover for Kate's birthday with her 3 BFFs. A trip to see Transformers--there were 15 of us. A baby shower. A going away potluck for our Pastor. I0 books. 5 scrapbook layouts. At least 2 trips to the pool a week. Zach got his first cell phone--Kate her second-with a keyboard-for her birthday next week. This was our June.
July will be hectic for us too. But this summer I am not freaking out about being busy--this is our life--and in this moment we are busy. We say yes to whoever asks us first, say thanks but no to anything more than we can do and that's what it is. We are headed to St. Louis at the end of next week for a mini vacation. We are going to watch the fireworks on the river, take a trip to Grant's Farm and the Science Center, and hope to see an old friend and her family while we are down there and we will finish it all up with a trip to see Zach's diabetes doctor. He's been doing better than last time at keeping his blood sugars in the normal range. Good for him.
After we get back from St. Louis--I have one day to do all our laundry, plus go into work for a few hours to help the new pastor get ready for Sunday's service then BFF and I are headed to Florida for a few days for a little girls time out. We plan to do some scrapbooking, lay by the pool, drink a few margaritas and relax a lot from our everyday lives. I am taking a couple books and a couple magazines. Dawn sleeps later than I do--I can get some reading done. Some more reading done.
Before I know it summer will be gone and I will be wondering where it went.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
June here we come!
I was looking at my calendar this morning trying to find a Saturday to schedule our card club and low and behold--we have exactly 2 Saturdays free before August and one of them is a maybe. What is up with that? This weekend is a AYBT tournament that Zach is in. 3 games on Saturday, 2 on Sunday and Kate and I will have to miss on Sunday, our church is celebrating our graduates and since she "graduated" from 8th grade she is being recognized. I hope we can catch the last part of the second game because it starts when we get out of church. Doug also mentioned going to a 1st Sunday market in Decatur--it is supposed to be a huge flea market type atmosphere with antiques and crafts. He knows I am always up for that. I better measure the places I need stuff for and write that down so I have it. I need to stick a tape measure in my purse also.
Doug talked to our loan officer today and we are going to close on our home loan tomorrow or Friday. Finally! Majority of work is done (the stuff we borrowed the money for--and the bathroom too) so it is only right we start paying huh? It will be a relief to know a payment amount and start paying down. The way it is now we will be 68 when we get done paying for this house. Plans are now to pay extra every month to get 2nd mortgage paid off and then put those amounts toward the loan every month. I don't want to be almost 70 and still paying for the house. I'm sure Doug will work until then (notice how I didn't say I would--although I could probably still do the church secretary job until then. ha) so no big deal, but...come to think about it...Doug's mom and dad are still both working and they are 68 and I don't see them quitting any time soon. I think it keeps them young. My parents are 10 years younger and my mom is retired. My dad talks about it non stop. I don't know what they will do when they both are off. They don't like to travel. Hmm...I digress.
My BFF is coming over today and we are going to "play". That for us is scrapbooking, talking, discussing the house, talking, complaining about whatever, listening to some good music (well, to me it is all good, but she doesn't know some of my music--she's too young--Hmph!) and some more talking. I don't know how late she is staying--we usually have to stop at 2:30 and go home to get our kids, but it's summer! YEAH! I wonder if we will actually accomplish anything project wise--I know we will get some mental health problems solved because that is what we do for each other, but scrap book pages...we will have to see.
Doug talked to our loan officer today and we are going to close on our home loan tomorrow or Friday. Finally! Majority of work is done (the stuff we borrowed the money for--and the bathroom too) so it is only right we start paying huh? It will be a relief to know a payment amount and start paying down. The way it is now we will be 68 when we get done paying for this house. Plans are now to pay extra every month to get 2nd mortgage paid off and then put those amounts toward the loan every month. I don't want to be almost 70 and still paying for the house. I'm sure Doug will work until then (notice how I didn't say I would--although I could probably still do the church secretary job until then. ha) so no big deal, but...come to think about it...Doug's mom and dad are still both working and they are 68 and I don't see them quitting any time soon. I think it keeps them young. My parents are 10 years younger and my mom is retired. My dad talks about it non stop. I don't know what they will do when they both are off. They don't like to travel. Hmm...I digress.
My BFF is coming over today and we are going to "play". That for us is scrapbooking, talking, discussing the house, talking, complaining about whatever, listening to some good music (well, to me it is all good, but she doesn't know some of my music--she's too young--Hmph!) and some more talking. I don't know how late she is staying--we usually have to stop at 2:30 and go home to get our kids, but it's summer! YEAH! I wonder if we will actually accomplish anything project wise--I know we will get some mental health problems solved because that is what we do for each other, but scrap book pages...we will have to see.
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