Summer time
Summer time is in full swing and oh my gosh I’m loving it! My work schedule, although? Not a lot. Carving out time to weblog is difficult however I’ve been doing this for 15+ years so happily I do know this comes and goes and the time to dive into the weblog extra deeply will floor once more. Since we now have mainly zero camps booked for our boys this summer time (okay, one, and it’s a one-week morning VBS camp), I’m absolutely immersed in summer time mother mode which suggests our days are full of pool time, lake time, playdates with pals, park visits, bike rides, Pepper walks and one million a great deal of laundry, 99% of that are seaside towels.
Yesterday was such a great one as we had pals over and the youngsters didn’t step foot inside for practically 5 hours. Chase and his buddy Tommy are one hundred pc obsessive about fishing and fished continuous off our dock and on the fringe of the lake for 3+ hours straight.
They caught a bunch of sunnies however the catch of the day got here when Tommy reeled in a 21-inch catfish. The catfish wriggled towards me within the towel Tommy was holding as I measured it and I believe my scream might be heard miles away. The important thing to their fishing success? Frozen shrimp!
One other spotlight of the day yesterday got here once we walked Chase to neighbor’s home for a morning mini sports activities camp of types. Our neighbor’s twin teenage sons hosted a bunch of elementary-aged college boys for a morning of outside video games and lake enjoyable (in lifejackets) for $25 a child and I believed this was the good thought!! Chase was in heaven and is hoping they’ll do it once more quickly. I might completely see our boys organizing one thing like this for youthful children sooner or later, particularly if it entails fishing, lake enjoyable, and so forth.
Rhett additionally had an awesome thought within the late afternoon when he advised busting out our outdated water bounce home!
My buddy Carrie and I needed to giggle as some severe mayhem ensued and I believe it might be time to improve our water bounce home to one thing greater as WrestleMania wants somewhat more room. Undoubtedly let me know when you have any suggestions for a water bounce home that works nicely for greater children. We’ve beloved the one we’ve had for years (it was a implausible reward from my mother-in-law when the massive children had been toddlers) however I’m considering a bigger one would possibly make a great mixture birthday reward for our three summer time birthday boys.
Orlando Ladies’ Journey
Backing up a bit, one other early summer time spotlight occurred for me final weekend once I made my approach to Orlando for a ladies’ weekend with my school pals.
Each single individual in our eight-woman crew made it which was such a deal with, as various schedules and household commitments usually make this subsequent to unimaginable. It was completely great to be collectively and our location was good as Orlando has tons of flight choices for simple journey and our lodge choice was implausible.
We stayed on the J.W. Marriott, a lodge I principally keep in mind from my school days working as an intern for SeaWorld in school once I used to ship brochures to the lodge in my Shamumobile (sure, actually). Fortunately no brochure supply occurred throughout this go to as we principally spent our time sipping drinks as we floated alongside within the lazy river. Heaven!
We additionally crammed our time with waterslides (I laughed so onerous), stay music, unworn outfits, piano bar scream-singing, caftails (cocktails + caftans — apparently it’s a factor), dancing, school reminiscing and hours and hours of speaking and laughing.
I miss these ladies so, a lot and being collectively felt like probably the most relaxed and great type of enjoyable. They’re the easiest and we’re already planning our subsequent journey!
And now since all of our early birds are awake, it’s time to get this summer time Wednesday rockin’! We’re internet hosting one other playdate at our home at present and I’m hoping to squeeze in a fast exercise earlier than the insanity begins. Hope you all have an awesome day!!
