Mother Nature is going through some mood swings this week. I’m right with her because I believe in supporting other mothers.
Sticky heat ping-ponged with torrential rain, meaning one too many days where the kids (after a hearty morning of Awesome Camp, which is what I’m naming it because it is, truly) just melt and flop inside.
You know what accompanies indoor melting and flopping during rain and awful heat? Continue reading Surviving Summer Funtimes: Week the Second
This past week, we went from 3000 degrees to 4 degrees in the span of a couple days, which meant storms, dreary weather, and cooped-up children who, in such situations, see me as the in-house entertainment director.
Wrong.
The first in a series of posts that are supposed to be weekly but probably won't be because it's summer break and I will definitely be incapacitated by ALL THE FUN within a few days. To both record the summer fun and to be considered fun at parties that I'm not invited to, I will share with you weekly notes about my family's dangdongdarnit summer funtimes. Short notes, though, because I am too busy making sweet summer funtimes to have much time do anything like hide in my office and write while they knock at the door and wail plaintively. In fact I would assume that the Funtimes will be so time consuming that by early July, these entries will be but two words.
We’ve been on summer break for almost 25 hours now, and I’m calling it — I am the best mother ever and my children will have the most unbelievably perfect summer since the invention of the Snoopy Sno-Cone Machine.
Today, the first full day of vacation, I woke the kids up early because the boys had an early dentist appointment to have their first “getting braces” prep, which for one of them involved getting a tooth pulled. He will be spending the rest of the day jamming wads of gauze into the bloody gap in his mouth.
I think the only one having a better day today is Paul Manafort.
Stay tuned to find out what next week will bring, which most likely will be my kids expressing an intense desire to live in a place with year-round schooling.
Jackie Pick 