Life after our 'visitors list' is done for awhile.
Wow…how boring is life when you have no one coming until September! Now it’s time to go back and rethink some of those fun things we did in the beginning and some of those other things we still want to do. It’s funny the more comfortable we get here the harder it seems to find fun things to do…maybe that’s why Indiana started getting so boring and it’s totally up to each of us to add color and creativity to our lives and our children’s lives so they are able to really truly learn how to FIND or make up a good time no matter where life takes them!
We ended up buying our Sonlight Home School materials early this year and we got them in the mail this week! HOW FUN it was to go through this big ol’box of books and watch our kids jump up and down with excitement over what we GET to learn this year at school! If it were up to them we would have started school the day we got the box! But mom needed at least this week to prepare for the year and get things together to be ready. SO I promised the kids we’d start the next week (the same week as Keegan’s birthday) much to my surprise Keegan says, “YES! This will be the best birthday week EVER!” what a nerd in the making! Ha!! I LOVE it!
This week was mostly spent catching up on laundry after Riah’s visit, stocking back up on food, etc. We headed for Salinas and ended up getting the van’s oil changed…and of course a nice ice cream visit! Mommy’s gut IS getting big and I’m NOT sure it’s ALL baby!! Ha!
Saturday we ended up at our mall close to home because they had a celebrate kids’ day! It was cute! Grissom got to use a net to catch rubber duckies out of the fountain…good and NOT so good…that was the same fountain we have to run and grab Grissom from getting into EVERY time we are at this place, and now he got to play in it! Great! Keegan got a tiger shark painted on his face, Ella a dolphin, and Grissom the ever so loved red ‘slug-bug’ but the rule was NO slugging because of this bug! Ella also got her hair braided by the local hair salon! They got candy, and they go to pet bunched of animals! It was cute! Sunday we hung out at the park.
Monday was our ‘first’ day of school; Ella – first grade, and Keegan – our big Kindergartner! How much fun we are having with that! Ella’s reading on and slightly past a 2nd grade level while Keegan is starting his journey to read…Ella’s also starting strong by memorizing the first chapter of Psalms! Holy work load!
School was a nice change of pace for the week of Keegan’s birthday. It gave me and the kids lots to do during our foggy July here in Monterey. Now…Keegan…IS MY SON because Monday he announced to the entire family that this WHOLE week was HIS…cause his birthday is in this very week! Ha!! I’m SO proud of him.
Mark and I asked him what kind of a birthday he wanted but had to stop asking because he kept wanting to be home with his cousins and friends…so we picked a MONSTER birthday! How much fun we had getting stuff to make it as fun as we could and we must have succeeded because I’ve not seen Ella this green sense his last birthday, ha! So with El being the enviously green monster it fit well! Daddy also happened to be working days this week (they switched for awhile); this made it possible for us to have our traditional birthday dinner and gifts!! So we tried to keep it as normal as possible. We started out with gifts from the family (before it got too late), then his pick for dinner; tuna casserole (gagged the entire time making it!) then back to our family gifts for him! Then we finished with a nice monster cake! AND the real excitement came after everyone fell asleep because early that next morning we were leaving FOR Keeg’s birthday to go on a family camping adventure/ home school field trip!
Once the kids were in bed Mark and I packed up the van and hit the hay!!
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