Summer is Finally Here!

Ahh, I made it!  The last few weeks of school where exhausting, time consuming, and SLOW.  We had been crawling to summer, and now it is here.  And in the short time that summer has been here, we've accomplished quite a bit.

1. Made a trip to Colorado.  Got to watch my 'little' brother graduate high school, and then see him move out of the house.  I cried.  Not really sure why since he's less than an hour away still instead of eight.  I suppose it has something to do with the fact that I remember him as a baby, and now he's a man.  Crazy how that happened!

2. Baked and succeeded at the Lego cake for Wesley's first birthday!

3. Learned after making and frosting four cakes in a 24hr pd, that as much as I enjoy baking, I have no desire to do it professionally.  So when I grow up I will not be opening a bakery of my own as I previously dreamed.

4. Sent my baby girl to our church's day camp.  I didn't realize how grown up Lizzi was getting until I took her to day camp.  I saw other kids crying about not wanting to go, and yesterday she tells me that 'you don't have to come in Mama, I know where my class is'.  Yes Lizzi, yes you do know where your class is but this Mama still needs to see you off to your new adventure!

5. Weeded and mulched my garden.  Of course you might laugh when you see just how small my garden is this year.  But I haven't had a garden in two years, so I told myself to have baby steps with successes along the way.  So I'm starting small, and am hoping to get bigger each year.

6. Got a blister doing manual labor.  The previous owners had this nice rock garden by the front door.  It grows all sorts of strange looking weeds.  I know I said rock garden, but the weeds apparently think it's their new sunspot.  I have different ideas.  So I started to hoe out the rocks.  Grabbed Phil when I saw how deep I was getting and not hitting bottom.  He got the bottom for me, and we started to move the rocks, and now I have a blister.  But I think that I am going to wear this blister with pride, because I was getting down and dirty with my summertime, and I liked it.

7.  Challenged Abi to read 100 books by the end of the summer.  Um yeah, she took me very seriously.  She's read over 60 books already!

8.  Told my son that he was still my baby.  I guess Wesley didn't like that so much.  In the few days since I've said that, he's started walking everywhere, tried to eat his supper with a spoon, is attempting to use sign language, and got frustrated trying to put his lego boat together.  Wesley is such a go-go-go guy that to see him sit still long enough to try and piece a toy together was pretty neat.  Oh yeah, and he actually sits on my lap and lets me read stories to him!

If summer keeps up it's nice leisurely pace that's jam packed with wonder, I'll have lots of memories for years to come.