Checking In

Hi everyone!! Sorry I haven't been around lately. Well, around blogland that is. I've been around here, at home of course. Otherwise, I would have been missing and there would have been a national call to arms and so forth:).

I never realized that getting 3 kids ready for school would be so much work! Bear in mind that for the past 8 years, I've only had to get Josh ready but that was so routine I was used to it. This year, we had to get the boys registered, get blue cards, fill out forms, get supply lists, buy said items on supply lists and on and on and on and on and....well, you get the point. Not to mention the fact that Josh has decided he just MUST have $100 shoes this year. That's fine though. We kicked in $50 and he's working odd jobs around the neighborhood to come up with the rest. He only has $20 to go and those unnecessarily expensive Nikes are his. Not happy with the price tag, don't think any shoes should cost that much;HOWEVER, I am quite happy with his enterpreneurial spirit. This time next year, he wants to have a real job (as in a paycheck and all) so he can buy his own school clothes without our help. I am thrilled at the prospect, even though he has an ulterior motive. See, he thinks that just because we don't buy them for him, then we won't be able to say anything about what he buys. WRONG! As I have mentioned before, this is not a democracy in our household. It is a sprinkleocracy. We're lenient enough, but we're not crazy.

And I am trying to cram as much fun into every day that we have before school starts. (Because this is the last free summer that my babies will have for 12 (at least) more years!! The rest of them will just be mini-vacations in between grade levels.) And I must admit, I am actually having a great summer, the first one I have had in a long time! Must be something about being smoke-free I can actually go out and DO more without having to take a smoke break every 20 minutes.

And speaking of doing more, I am going out to play now. What, you thought 40 year old women didn't do that? Think again!:)

Peace allllllllll....................