Mom twisted my arm again...

She forced me to go down stairs and play again. She is such a bad mom. hehe I was actually a little bit productive. I actually made 7 pages this month 4 of those were tonight. When compared to April and May when I made zero pages I feel very productive. These are simple pages but it seems that's my style these days. I'm ok with that:) I've even use some old paper I had. Oh my the horror of it.

Just a glimps....

into the weekend.
Jordan had a football jamboree. I've got to be honest with you... I was lost the whole time. I have NO idea what was going on. But I did get a couple of pictures. Nothing great. I was too far away. Jordan is #85.
Makayla and I took pictures for her leaf project. This is the sad face I looked at most of the day. She is having a hard time with her new found singleness. We are doing a lot of talking and reassuring. We are trying to undo what he took 8 months to create. We are trying to keep her busy. Well that's about it for now. I want to take the kids on a picnic tomorrow after church. If it's not 100 degrees we may do just that!

Will I EVER learn to be adaptable.....

I don't think so. Every time I think that I can finally relax and coast.... well things change again. Bummer.... I really liked things the way they were. I had become content.... well at least for the time being.... contentment is one more of those things that I struggle with. So... Makayla and "the boyfriend" are not a thing anymore. I'm ok with that in the sense that no one will ever be good enough for my baby right? But it is soooooooooooo difficult watching her deal with this. I walked around all day feeling like I was 15 again and had just broke up with my boyfriend.
We are also chest deep in National Honor Society paperwork. After all this work this kid had better get in!!!!!!!!!!!! Man I can only hope that college applications are not as difficult and time consuming.Mom twisted my arm and made me go back down stairs and scrapbook tonight. I actually made a page. Can you believe it? I sat down, picked out some picture, and made a page in less than 12 hours.
So I'm working on adapting again.... I'll let you know how it goes....

Well hello there old friend...

What have you been up to since the last time we talked? We have been getting back into the swing of a routine. All three kids have practices nearly every night. We have not all had a week night dinner together since school started. I make dinner and we start eating at 4 the last shift comes through about 8:30. Then there is the homework thing. I promise that when I am a teacher I will not purposely send homework home. Now hold me to that!
I think we have the building (Creations Unlimited) sold. So we have begun the process of cleaning it out. We just walked away from the whole thing when it closed. We even left trash in there. It was a mess. It's really kind of embarrassing that we left it like that. But we were in survival mode. Trying to figure out our lives. So now we get to mess with it.... Here is just one load of trash. I just started throwing everything away. What are we going to do with all that stuff! We already can't park in our garages.
Now here is the exciting news!!!!!! I scrapbooked with my old scrapbook buddies this weekend. We spend about 5 hours snacking, talking, snacking, scrapping, talking, talking, snacking... you get the picture. I only got 2 pages done and those still need a little work. But.... I enjoyed myself. I have got to do that more often! I have just got to plan it and forget the deadlines, dirty house, obligations and go crazy for one night.... my goodness someday I'm going to be dead and than I won't have ever caught those books up! So here are my pages such as they are... I still need to journal.. there was too much talking and laughing to do that while Christina and Andrea were around. I can't wait to do it again!


One week of school down and 17 more to go. The count down is on!!!!! Later.....

Back at it....

I cannot believe we are back to school. I took my normal pictures this year. I tried to take pictures of the girls at their lockers but they took off in some Olympic pace fast walking to get away from me. I am really missing them already.

Where oh where has our summer gone?

I would love to find an extra week or two of summer. Does anyone know where I could find a week or two. I am so bummed! This is the kids last summer night. Tomorrow might is our 1st official school night. AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! It makes my heart race and I just might eat the whole pan of Rice Krispy treats to drown my sorrows. I cannot believe it is over. This is the first summer that I have not been ready to pack the kids up and leave them on the school door steps a couple of days early. I wish I could figure out how to pause time if only for a couple of days. So I'm going to drown my anxiety in Rice Krispy treats and the Olympics.
I did get Jordan's bedroom painted and we spent the day buying school supplies. So I think everyone is ready, well everyone has what they need but they are not ready to go back if you know what I mean. Can you believe I waited until today to buy school supplies. So unlike me.
I hear to beach calling me back. If only Cher and I could really turn back time.....

Picturepolooza

Mom and I took the kids on a road trip. It was only a week long and covered over 2000 miles. We stopped in Kentucky is see my BFF (hopefully you know I'm being a dork). We spent the day with Susan and her family. We laughed until we cried several times. This is a picture from her back porch. Must be a rough life. And just for the record... when you leave Missouri and it is 110 heat index you really don't want to hear anyone complain about 85 degrees. Next time she calls and complains about how hot it is I'm going to question her about what the temperature is. The kids played a little woofle (sp)ball.
And we were obviously not sleeping enough for Jordan. I can not figure out how to turn off the underlining bit on blogger right now. I'm too tired to mess with it! We were off to Michigan next. The is Lake Huron. And that is a hugh barge going under the Canadian American bridge. Did I know we were going to be that close to Canada? No. So we didn't get to go over the bridge. Next time I'll bring passports. I had to take a picture of my kids playing with Playdough. If I had bought them Playdough at home they never would have played with it. But at Aunt Cathy's they had a blast.
Aunt Cathy took us to the beach at Port Huron.

How many cousins can you fit in a baby pool. I think we were at the limit!

This was our last stop and it was very unplanned. We wanted the kids to see Lake Michigan. I didn't want to drive into Chicago so we just pulled off the road. And we found this awesome beach in New Buffalo Michigan. The kids had a blast. I enjoyed just setting an watching.
Jordan was very happy about this stop.

This is Makayla and my cousin Amy. When I look at Makayla I am often reminded of Amy. They have similar smiles. Right now Makayla's is a little bit silver but they even have the same teeth. I love looking at my kids and seeing my family in their expressions. They're similarities go even farther than the smile. They also have the same hands. Even though Amy lives 900 miles away I am constantly reminded about this funny cousin I have who have hands just like my daughter.