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At the beginning of the summer, our Thursdays became free all.day.long. (I used to babysit three days a week and now I’m down to two).  I decided we needed to reserve this day for some special excursions.  This was especially the case because JJ is going to summer school and I’d hoped this would give him something fun to look forward to at the end of the week.

I sat down with the boys and explained my idea to them.  We plotted out the Thursdays for the summer and each boy got to pick where we were going to go – they were super excited.  We decided it had to be places we didn’t usually go on the average week.(a.k.a. Larson Park, Warson Woods Park, etc)

So far we’ve gone to the Science Center, the Rocket Park and Kirkwood Park.  The Coaliers have been doing them with us (Sadie is in Summer School with JJ)  and the Olivers joined us for some wet fun at the Rocket Park.

This past Thursday, we went to Kirkwood Park and just when we were leaving we spotted the Kirkwood firetruck watering down some camp kids and we managed to join in fun…how often do you get to do this?!?!

Yesterday John and the boys went to the Webster Pool ready for an afternoon swim.  Just as they got their suits on, the lifeguards were getting everyone out of the pool because lightening was spotted.

The boys were sad, but John promised that they would all go again this evening.  So this evening we were ready to go to the pool, but we waited to long and forgot the pool closes early on Sundays.  Whoops, this time we blew it.

John was sad because the kids were going to be disappointed which they were, tears were shed but slowly dried when we decided to set the little pool up in the backyard.

JJ insisted on wearing his water wings to make it feel more like the “big pool”.  Slowly, everyone got really into it and had a great time.  Stunts were being performed down the playground slide splashing into the little pool and the boys were successful in thoroughly soaking everyone involved.  John did make the comment that it wasn’t fun to shoot me because I didn’t give any sort of reaction when I got shot.  I’ll have to work on that.

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I admit,  I have been lazy with pictures and the ones I do take are on the iPhone, so forgive my poor quality.

Today we had  Make-Your-Own Ants on a Log for snack….

I provided the cut celery, peanut butter, cream cheese and Craisins and the kids went to town making their own snack.

What the picture doesn’t show is when they got creative.  They got out peanuts and red hots for optional toppings.  Yum?

Does everyone always have red hots in their pantry or is it just us????

I have slowly started to get the itch to start blogging again.  SO why have I been gone so long?

There are a couple reasons.  The first is 4 kids is A LOT going on!  I just got to a point where I had to let go of some things until I felt like I could manage the basics (meaning laundry, dishes, showering).   I needed to feel like I was doing something well, so blogging was one of the things that had to go for a bit.  I’m definitely not there completely yet, but have been getting a glimpse of free time here and there.

The other reason I stopped was a bit more personal and I really can’t go into because it is not just my story to tell.  I would love to tell you about it in person, so ask me sometime.  It’s a story of when life gets hard, but now I can see how it has God’s fingerprints all over it — – which makes it all the better to share.

So I hope you and yours are well and keep checking back!