Enter your password to view commentsWhen Jeff and I moved to New York in June 2000, we lived in a great apartment complex. That first day, when we were moving all of our stuff into our new place, we met our next-door neighbors: Vicky and Natalie. (Well, they lived kind of across from us and upstairs, actually!) We had no idea that we would end up becoming such close friends with them. They are like family to us! And recently, during Vicky and Natalie’s trip to the Midwest, they stopped by my parents’ house in Columbus, IN, to visit! It was so funny seeing pictures of Vicky and Natalie in my hometown! :) I thought that I would share some neat photos that they took:
At the beginning of this summer, when Lucas graduated from preschool in June, I felt overwhelmed by trying to figure out ways to keep our kids busy, active, and learning. Well, now that July is almost finished (how did that happen?!?), I’m trying to cram in lots of fun activities before school starts in September!
Also, I’m finding myself seeing the summer through Lucas’s eyes. I think that it’s because he’s going off to kindergarten this fall and things will change immensely then ~ he won’t be at home with me anymore during the day, like he has been for the first five years of his life! And this summer has been such a different (and sometimes difficult) one for him, although fun, too, of course.
- My poor husband ~ he started feeling queasy yesterday afternoon and feels pretty miserable today. :( We were invited to a cookout at a friend’s house this evening, but I cancelled. (I know that I could still go with the kids, but I think that I’d rather hang out at home and relax ~ we had a pretty busy week, and I feel like I need some “recovery” time!) He thinks that he has food poisoning ~ maybe from some fruit that he ate at work. I hope that he feels better soon (and if it’s actually a virus, that he doesn’t pass it along to anyone else!).
- Lucas and Meredith did VBS at Loudonville Community Church this week and really enjoyed themselves. We’re tired from getting up early, though (6 a.m. for me!). They had tons of great activities planned for all of the kids, and it was wonderful to see so many teenagers involved. Lots of people went to a lot of effort to put it all together. I was a “teacher” in the infants’ room, although I basically just helped take care of the babies. :) It made me a little teary seeing Luke and Meri take their handmade Operation Christmas Child shoe boxes into the sanctuary to help other children in the world! I told someone that next year I’d like to help with making the signs and decorations. I have a cute video of Lucas singing one of the songs ~ let me know if you’d like the link.
- I made Martha Stewart’s cherry streusel coffee cake for an event last night, and it was a big hit! Really delicious … it could have used more cherries, though. And they turned purple like blueberries, although maybe that’s because they were dark cherries! For tomorrow, I’m going to make a fresh fruit tart (so neat that it uses limeade concentrate ~ I bet that will add a lot of “zing”!).
- This upcoming week … Lucas will continue his summer camp; we have a primary school playground playgroup on Tuesday morning; I have a dentist appointment on Thursday; Meredith’s preschool class has a playgroup on Friday morning; and I have a meeting Saturday morning, followed by a gymnastics birthday party for one of Meredith’s classmates (need to find a gift ~ according to her mom, she’s into Hannah Montana!).
- I can’t believe that we’re approaching the end of July!
Because now, I’d be a millionaire! :) Seriously … SillyBandz are so simple. And they actually remind me somewhat of the “jelly bracelets” that were so popular in the ’80s. I wore tons of those on my wrists.
Luke and Meri received dinosaur and musical note SillyBandz from a preschool friend, but today at CVS they spotted Disney Princess and “pets” ones. I think the ones Lucas is wearing in this photo are even scented! Meredith likes to wear them all together to make “one” bracelet.
Oh, and in this picture, Luke is wearing his color-changing shirt (it reacts to sunlight, which we don’t have any of today because it’s raining here ~ I want some color-changing nail polish!), and Meri’s wearing her “Little Miss Indiana” T-shirt (I *love* it so much!) ~ both from Gran and Granddad.
P.S. Lucas threw up a few times again this morning, on our way to VBS. :( I really think that it’s due to allergies. We stopped at CVS and picked up some children’s chewable Zyrtec … going to give him some before bed tonight, and hopefully that’ll help him feel better. Now to clean the puke out of my car … ICK!!! :(
I got up at 6:30 to get the kids dressed, fed, and ready to attend their first day of VBS. (I’m also working in the infants’ room.) Then, I hopped into my car and discovered that I forgot to get gas after church yesterday … the light was on, and the needle was almost over the “E.” Ugh. :( I figured that maybe I had enough gas to get me all the way to Loudonville (it takes a good 35 minutes to get there from our house), but as I drove down our road, I got nervous and didn’t want to chance it.