Barry’s home… thank goodness!
It has been a long few days with Barry in DC visiting a friend. The kids have been crabby, and I have been crabby and it just has been a crabby few days. We had friends stay overnight on Friday and while they always have a good time playing with their buddies, they always stay up too late, get up too early and then are crabby for like 2 days afterwards! I know I could have put them to bed earlier, but hey, it is summer and they were with friends. They went outside and caught fireflies and were just laughing and running around the backyard… how could you send them to bed? They actually played pretty well this time too. My friend’s son is pretty competitive and likes to always be the best at whatever they are doing and Carter is not that way, so sometimes there are some arguments, but this time, none. I was so glad!
We went to the farmer’s market on Saturday and ended up going later than I would have liked due to rain, so it was crowded and warm and my kids were thirsty and could not find just the right treat, so they were bears! But, we survived and then after our friends left, we hit the pool in the afternoon for a few hours. It was nice to just sit outside and let the kids just play together and have fun. Not too many weeks left with the pool, so we have to enjoy it while we can.
And the Americans just won the men’s 400m relay!!!! Wooo, hoooo! Way to show France what we can do!!! Michael Phelps rocks! That race was friggin’ awesome!! I love watching the summer Olympics… swimming, diving, gymnastics… it is always so exciting. Speaking of gymnastics, the women’s team really had a tough time, both with their routines and the judging. Some of the girls just got robbed on their beam routines, but what can you do. It is a whole new judging system that is supposed to be better, but who knows if it actually will be or not.
This week will be pretty busy. It is the last week of the kids’ activities, besides swimming, so it will settle down the following week. I also leave on Thursday for our girls’ weekend. This year it is kind of disappointing because we are not really going anywhere. No cottage, no camping, no hotel, no nothing! I am staying at my sister’s which will be nice and we are just taking some day trips. I just hope next year we will actually “do” something. It will be nice to get us all together though and that is what really matters.
