crazy days of summer

I can't believe that it has been 2 weeks since I have had anything to say ~ we have been crazy busy, but it looks like things are beginning to settle down!! I love sleeping in, I love not ever knowing what time it is, I love being able to eat dinner whenever we want (we are early dinner eaters during the school year because Zachary still goes to bed at 7!), I love picking up and going to the spray park at 5 o'clock if we want to...I love the carefree days of summer! I'm not real crazy about being hot, but I'll live with it! We made a list of all the things we want to do during the summer: catch lightning bugs, pillowfight, game night, stay up till 11(the kids of course :), have a movie night out in the clubhouse, etc. I can't wait till we are able to check each of these things off. Each check mark is a memory and I want this summer to be full of togetherness and memories! I'm looking forward to it!

The family went and picked strawberries twice ~ I think we ended up picking about 24 pounds!! I made tons of strawberry jam for the first time and I must say, it was quite good ~ 1 jar of it is already gone! It was very time consuming, but so much fun and so worth it! To have the boys say, "I want your jam, Mama" ~ I love it! And, to be able to make it for my hubby was awesome, since it is his favorite! Now we are waiting on the cucumbers and tomatoes for the next project! We have spent many days at the spray park already! Zachary gets his cast off on Tuesday, so we are waiting until then to hit the pool! The doc said he could get his cast wet, but once it dries he can't get it wet again! Zachary is one of those kids that swims for about 20 minutes and then sits wrapped up under a towel for 3 hours! That would never work with the little cast! We have our summer all planned out! Crafts, reading, concerts at the bandshell, community activites, pool, vacation, etc. I like having all these things planned and not having to do ANY of them if we don't want too!! I like having the options with no obligations to be at any of them if it doesn't work out! Living in the moment this summer!

We did get some bad news, which I am trying to forget about till August or so! We have had problems with the school district that we live in...no one can really tell us which district we live in! To make a REALLY long story short: Dylan's school district is different than Zachary's ~ go figure! We opened enrolled Zachary at Dylan's school and another local school and found out that both were denied. The district that Zachary is in is HORRIBLE and we refuse to send him to that school. Then, the same day I got the letter about Zachary, I found out that Dylan may be shipped off to another school too! His class is so big that each year they have had to add a teacher to accomodate the size of his class...this year they decided to just ship the kids to other schools! We are afraid that Dylan will end up being sent somewhere we don't want him at and we will have no control over it by then! Needless to say, Dylan was heartbroken that Zachary won't be in the same school as him for his first year (and we have yet to let Zachary in on that bad news). Needless to say, we talked to Dylan and he is willing to go to a different school just so he can be with Zachary as long as he has the option of going back to his school at another time! We have open enrolled them at a school outside of Ashland and now it is in the Lord's hands ~ we won't know anything until August 19th and school starts on the 25th!! A little stressed but I am determined that I am leaving it in the Lord's hands and I'm not going to worry all summer about it. I am going to enjoy my kids and my husband and the extra time we all have to spend together. Carpe Diem ~ I am siezing the day!!

I guess, on that note, I will close this entry!