The adventures of two boys and a wee girlie

Seems like they are going by faster and faster! Hard to believe we will have a teenager in the house in 6 months. Terrifying and exciting all at the same time. Christmas was a smashing success and the children were spoiled by the wonderful grandparents in their lives and their parents might have had a small hand in that as well. We have been enjoying a somewhat relaxing break from school and work. While it would be wonderful to have some more time off, but need to get back to reality and work on finishing out this school year. Next year we will have 2 in middle school; heaven help us! Knock on wood we are having a rather good school year all around and I think next year might be even better, fingers crossed. By the time I get around to updating this again they will probably be in High School. Lol!

With only a little over a week of my summer “break” left and four weeks for the kids, summer has once again sped right by. Time sure does fly when you are having fun! The two youngest spent a week in Indiana with grandparents and were treated like royalty; which is exactly how it should be! We enjoyed having an only child for a few days and got to spend some time seeing what that was like: QUIET! It was good to have them back home and resume the normal state of chaos that is our household. I took the two youngest for a quick visit to Asheville for a couple days over the weekend to see their “Aunt” Debbie. Asheville isn’t really their scene, but we found a few fun things to do. They aren’t much on the sight seeing, but they were troopers! We are going to try and enjoy the last few precious days with some movies and maybe even a trip to Six Flags, and at least one or two more trips to the local pool. I discovered just a week or so ago that the oldest had a 20 page math packed he is supposed to turn in his first week of middle school and two books to read, so we have buckled down, which is really putting a damper on his summer, but it will help get him back in the routine of things, hopefully! I’ve got to start getting my back to school lists together so I’m not scrambling the last few days before school starts. Maybe I’ll put that on my to-do list for tomorrow!

Here are a few photos from our trip to Asheville:

Dragged myself home after another 10 hour day and 3/5 of the family were planning to take a dip in the pool. I opted out because I got a little too much sun over the last few days, but the oldest was just being obstinate because he did not want to have to take a shower after because it is not his “normal” shower night; suit yourself! Since everyone else was getting outside I told him to take a break from his electronics, before they fry his brain, and I started vacuuming. After about 15 minutes of driving me batty with “when is my punishment over?” all while I am trying to vacuum, I told him he could help out and vacuum his room if he was so bored to which he informed me that “vacuums are electronic and you told me to take a break from electronics!” Hard to argue with his logic sometimes!