July

July is a great month here at Camp BOY! the boys are loving Summer TJ had his 9th birthday and after me freaking out and thinking it was going to be a replay of 2yrs ago when 1 boy showed up, it wasn't it went well!!! we had 3 boys show up, 1 with a little Brotehr which works well because TJ has little brothers, so at one point I had 8 boys in my house all trying to win Mario cart while they dried off.
Games went well, boys were happy, and all sugared up evenly. I'm still surviving. I did well too this week. I find Birthdays and celebrations a struggle for the quest to get my butt smaller but this one worked I'm down 1.2lbs this week and my loss is now totaling 36.4lbs. I'm happy about that, not so happy about the length of time it has taken to get there but part of me thinks the more time I spend working on this more more practise I'll h ave in living like this, healthier and happier.
This week our city painted more lines and signage! we now have bike lanes! YAY!!!! this is totally a great thing because before this week you felt like you were going to get squished between the cars and the road, the cars and the sidewalks or the people waggling fingers at you were going to find a way to get you back for being on the sidewalk. Sometimes the people are less threatening then the cars, kind of like bigger is more dangerous, but smaller would be less harm? A waggling finger doesn't hurt like smooshage. Yes I just made that word up! smooshage, I like it!
Today we're off to look up something to do, because Trips to the Grocerystore are only SO exciting before you have a munitiny and my helpers want only to go down the crap food aisle. I went on my own lastnight and bought the groceries, it was peaceful and I didn't have to say" nooooooooo" or "put that back" or "What happens if someone finds you but doesn't find me...hmmmmmm?" I send them on missions but now the store is changing it's lay out so JUST when I have them to the point of knowing fruits, TP, Meat, eggs, BREAD, the store moves it!. I will surely lose them all, and that's a different kind of vacation isn't it?
BTW where dooooo kids put all the food they eat? They are eating us out of house and home and still hungry? Where does it go? I can't eat what they eat and still look healthy but they can pack it away? it must be sliding down the back yard on the slides and running away from me in the grocerystore?

The count down to summer

Or the count down to chaos! but fun chaos cause I will have my kids back! School is over for the year. My oldest boys are moving on to the next grade. Today is a 1/2 day and I think it's just fun, running and playing with kids. We opted to send the kids to school so they could have that day of playing. My kids live a bit out of town from their school so getting out and playing is super important when you are 6 and almost 9!
Summer plans for us are all about the Vegging out and me getting my confidence on! I need to learn to take 3 kids to the beach without daddy, cause Daddy has to go to work, (insert snicker)...Sun Sand and sunscreen, Shorts, Snacks and Sitting and maybe some swimming.
When Summer ends, that's when I get my itch on to get back to my Island. I don't know why or what it is, maybe it's the release from school routines, the release from needing to be here M-F? but it's an itch and it's not going away. We hope to make our way to my family cottage as well, the boys will of course LOVE that, outdoors, running, less rules and bed times with stretched limits. I hope the stretched limits will result in stretched mornings too. I think TJ will totally understand the idea of sleeping in, but AJ and MJ will be more interested in truck time, sand time, swimming time and waking up TJ time. Sometimes it's fun to wake up your oldest brother just to hear him yell, scream and be cranky.
My plan for the summer to relax the rules enough to have fun while still keeping a line on routines that are doable. We'll see how that goes.
So there it is ON with Summer!!!

The day that doesn't Happen Every Year

Today is the day that doesn't happen every year, we get 1 more day of winter this year, we get 1 more day to spend money , or one more day to wait for a pay check, It's that day! One more day to get a day older then the year before or the year after. Funny how that works. And if you are a person that gets excited for Christmas count downs? we add more day this year to wait.
Today I'm just reading mostly and listening to music. This is the music I've found today,
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My Son's Idog is very happy about my choice too.