Starting the Transition

Two weeks from tomorrow, school begins for the kids. Given the heat here lately, we've all been kind of cooped up indoors and I think school will be good for us, and I think everyone is ready to get back at it...even myself. The one thing that really makes me sad is that it's back to the clock watching...kids have to be in bed by a certain time so baths need to begin by such and such and I need to have dinner on the table by this time in order to make it all "flow". I love the fact that in the summer, we just eat whenever we get around to it, and if it gets late they can always take a bath in the morning. I suppose this would get old after a while though, if we didn't have the school year to make us better appreciate the freedom of summers! Anyway, because the little one is definitely not a morning person, we are beginning our transition to school mornings tomorrow. We'll have two days of making sure everyone is up by 8:30, then the rest of the week by 8, and then next week it will be a normal 7:30 wake up. UGH! I haven't missed that either! Because I'll be subbing in the schools, there is a chance on some mornings the kids will have to be up even earlier than that, so it's really important that they are in bed the night before at the correct school bedtime...and losing our fun loving, stress free, hanging out summer evenings, is what I'm going to miss the most.

I surrender!

It's hot. It's unbearably hot. I do not like heat. I don't like it at all. One or two days, that I can get through. This, though, this is ridiculous! Right now the heat index is 97 degrees. I guess I should be grateful we didn't hit 100, at least that I am aware of. This is about the fourth day in a row it's been absolutely miserable. And tomorrow you ask? Yep, more of the same. UGH!

Last Hurrah

We are kind of having our "last hurrah" this week. After HT's soccer practice last evening, we made the 90 minute trek to my dad's cottage. It's so peaceful up here, and we, as always, are having a wonderful time. Sadly, it's really almost too hot to enjoy the outdoor activities, but there are still plenty of other fun things to do. We just can't believe how quickly the summer has gone by, but we are so grateful for the wonderful memories!

Sweet Corn

One of the really awesome things about living in our rural community is the abundance of the roadside sweet corn stands. I have great memories of my childhood, where my mother would buy corn on the cob at the local farm market and we'd sit on the side porch getting the corn ready for the boiling water. Now, I don't have a local farm market, but there are plenty of farmers who just set up on the side of the road. My husband had picked up some the other evening and commented that the sign said it was the last week. Yesterday, I just kept remembering how sweet and juicy that corn had been, and off I went on a mission. I returned to the exact same stand my husband had visited earlier in the week and picked up two dozen ears. I didn't make all of it last night, knowing that it would cover a few lunches that way as well. It was just as sweet and juicy as it had been earlier, and I loved watching the kids devour it with the same enthusiasm I had at their age! It's always nice to make a dinner they actually like to eat!

Free Friday

We are having kind of a "free" day around here. My wonderful husband is working on the garage organization project, but other than that we are just kind of hanging out. We had friends over yesterday which required us to clean the house, and since that was accomplished I'm just enjoying the fact that it's Friday...and trying not to think about the fact that school begins again in a little over three weeks!

Hotter than, well, you know

Yes folks, it is sizzling here! I have come to truly understand the meaning of oppressive heat. Today I checked weather.com at noon, and it was 93 degrees, with a heat index of 112. That is completely insane! The dew point was 80, which I'm not sure I've ever been aware of before. We had a shower around 2 this afternoon that cooled things down to a heat index in the low 90's, but by this evening the regular temps were reaching that point again. As I write this after 7:30 PM, the heat index is currently 102. Thank goodness for a/c!

Home sweet home

We are all very happy to be home! We had a wonderful trip last week to Gettysburg with the in-laws, and then stayed through the weekend until yesterday. I'm not a person who enjoys traveling, so July was rough on me. Now it's August though, and we are looking towards a new school year. What? It can't be happening already!