Summer Days

We’ve had a week of just summer.   It’s been nice summer weather and we haven’t been over scheduled so much that we’ve felt like we were running around from one activity to the next.   We’ve have whole sections of days where we didn’t have a single thing planned and we figured out smoothing just beforehand.   It’s been relaxing.

My parents came into town today to see everyone.   They joined us for dinner tonight and tomorrow we’ll get to spend a lot of time with them.   My mother asked what a good time would be for them to come over; I looked at my calendar and told her, “we have nothing on our calendar other than to be with you all, pick your time.”

Next week the children have camp again, but next week starts the countdown to our New Jersey vacation in which we go visit my brother- and sister-in-law and their two children.   That’s a summer week worth waiting for.  For now, I’m just enjoying the easy-going days while I can before school starts back.

The Big Boy Update:  “Oil bath”   My son has seen Star Wars exactly two times now.   He’s seen it over the last week and tonight he asked if we could watch Star Wars again.    We decided this time we had a chance of my daughter staying awake for the full movie so we said sure.    We were about fifteen minutes in when my son suddenly said, “oil bath.”  As I looked up, it was right when Luke had gotten the new droids and was about to walk inside and offer C3PO an oil bath.  

The Tiny Girl Chronicles:  My children weren’t exactly getting along the other day so I decided maybe an assistant on my trip to the grocery store would give them some space for a while.   I didn’t care which one, so I asked, “who wants to go to the grocery store with me?”   My daughter and son ran by me as my daughter replied, “no one.”    I went to the store alone.

Fitness Update:  I’ve been trying to wedge in some sort of cardio here and there while my children are with me over the past week.   The Apple Watch has made it easier to tell if I’m doing a good job of this.   I’m doing okay on the exercise front.  Now, if I could just get into the “not wanting to eat everything in sight” mode, I think I’d have a calm and relaxing life.