Selfless acts

Tonight one of my besties reminded me of what it means to be selfless. We (at her encouragement) went to the Ausherman fun run in Waynesboro. I ran the warm-up mile with her. Now this is my Boston qualifying friend. My 2 mile jog equals her 1/2 mile. Anyway she stayed with me, came back for me and crossed with me. She didn't care that everyone would see the ridiculous time. She only cared that I did it. She was the same when her and her kids plus my Nick ran the next mile. She was there purely for the joy of health and encouraging a friend, a friend's kid and her own family. Thanks Amy- Nick is still holding his ribbon ;-). I may even get up in the morning to run or jog or walk.





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Robot

He slept until noon then built a robot.






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S'mores

Enjoying Summertime with friends


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At a loss for words

I wish there was a chip implanted in my 6 year old's brain that I could download information from at the end of the day. He has always been a rather unique child. Tonight as I walked outside to ask him to stop using the lawn sprinklers as a rocket launcher I discovered a suspicious liquid on the garage floor. It was pee! He saw me and said, "what? I wanted to see what would happen." What did he think was going to happen?!? I was at a loss for words.


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Taylor

So Taylor came to live with us for the summer!!! I think the universe knew I was just about to lose what sanity I had if I didn't get help. I confess that my husband's CONSTANT travel schedule and Nick's struggles have finally broken me. Anyway, she arrived on June 8th and we couldn't be happier. I think her body is missing Mississippi though because she is in bed with a fever and had the throwie uppies...no fun. But we'd rather have a sick Taylor over no Taylor. Very grateful for the time we have with her. I promise to post happy, non-sick pics soon ;-) and be sure to ask her all about the Braves if you see her- she loves to talk baseball- lol!!!


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Disappointment

When I was a kid I used to say I'd rather have have a whoopin' then a lecture. To me there was nothing worse then knowing someone was disappointed in me. Apparently the same holds true for Nick. Yesterday he refused to go to a rather intense soccer camp that he chose to do at Dickinson College and I layed on the parental lecture of not quitting, you gotta dig deep...follow that with a day of chores, no tv or video games and you get this...a kid who is up before you, dressed and has muffins ready to be put in the oven. I almost feel bad- almost.


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Blue Poop

I try to be the food police in my house. I have a goal this summer of getting away from all things processed. For now I try to offer as many gluten free, preservative free, dye free foods as I can. A child attending public school makes this task difficult. Although the nation's schools are in an overhaul to fight childhood obesity, the school my son attends thinks it's appropriate to give out gobs and gobs of candy for playing learning games on an almost daily basis. Clearly that's something I have a problem with but the list of things I struggle with in our school system is so long that one will have to wait for now. Back to my point.  I was outside watering the flowers when the door flung open. I looked and could see no face for all I could see was a giant mouth and that squiggly thing that dangles at the back. Epiglottis I think it may be called. I thought, here we go. Tattle tell central. But to my surprise and my neighbors delight I hear, " Mooooommmmmmmmm! Parker just pooped and it's BLUE! Should I call 911?"

At first I was annoyed knowing that it is all the dye from said candy but then I decided to be grateful. Thank you Blue number whatever because thanks to your pointless existence we may have our first evening in weeks that doesn't end on a, " is it too early for boarding school note". I kid-sort of...