To think my last blog took place a few months earlier when summer just began scares me! Where did the time go? I will sum up our summer overall....
1. Trip to Taos with great friends...lots of kids and plenty of blackmail material, but a great kick off to summer!
2. Our 9th wedding anniversary....I will blog about this later...
3. Trips to Las Cruces to stay with my parents here and there...
4. Weekly playdates with my great friends and their children...fun for them, therapy for us...sweating to death...swimming..playing...laughing like crazy...a few tears...priceless.
5. My beautiful sister visiting ABQ! We love Auntie Nebin!!! (oh..and Uncle Dave too!)
6. Pheonix trip - we visited Steve's Aunt Cindy, Uncle Dan and family...SO much fun...visited the Grossology Exhibit, Diamondbacks game....swimming.....shopping....IKEA...visiting their boat during fireworks....amazing...we miss them already!
7. South Carolina trip....I (for work) visited Rock Hill SC for a training in a FANTASTIC HS program called Teacher Cadet...went with fabulous ladies and we had a ball and actually learned alot...
8. Slept in..need I say more?
9. Housesat our friends one-eyed weiner dog "Irene"...she ran away about 5 times and the 5th and final time we ran around our neighborhood withour pajamas on at 6:30 am screaming"Irene!!! expletive, expletive!!!"...BTW, we did find her, thank god!
10. I cleaned my new classroom while the kiddos played and did arts and crafts - AKA..undid all that I did!
11. Attended Mason's T-Ball games, and Madeline's ballet class....
12. Went to see
The Honorary Title in concert at the Launchpad...Steve's cousin's Sunni is dating the guitar player....my friend and I were easily the most senior people there and were scared we would see students! It was fun and they are fantastic!
13. Spent too much time on my Facebook page...
Due to crazy conflicts with first days of school, back to school meetings, Madeline's Montessori school being closed for annual cleaning, she got to spend a week with my parents. As always, after carefully packing, giving kisses and talking about not bossing Ee-ma and Popsy around (this is what she calls my mom and dad), she happily left with my dad to spend a week away without blinking an eye or shedding a tear...something that at the core makes me feel so fortunate about. Although I lived across the country from one set of grandparents, and 30 minutes away from the other..the memories that I have still fresh in my mind are ones I will treasure like most adult grandchildren. The smells of my grandparents house...the cereal they would always remember to buy me when they knew we would be coming (which for my PA grandparents was not so often, but somehow, my Nanny Jean always had Quaker Granola for me - no nuts, no matter what), or the undivided attention we would always get when we were with them (lots of Old Maid games, shopping, and swimming). I know now that it is my chi
ldren's turn to create and experience the same memories....and my parents have done a knockout job so far....all the way from the sweet cereals that we won't buy at home and they NEVER bought for us growing up, to tea parties and painting...they get it all when they are with my parents. My mom emailed me about Maddie waking her up at 2:30 at night just to say to her "I just wanted to give you a hug and a kiss Ee-Ma"....that was enough for me to know that my parents have become legends in the minds of my children....and just how lucky they are to have them...and how lucky I am to have them as parents. From the summer lemonade stands that my mom organized, to the tea parties using her childhood tea set, to my dad playing music for them while they dance, and chasing them around the house while they are in a fit of giggles....lots of treasure hunt walks with ziplock bags in hand that come back with mostly garbage AKA "treasures" they get it all...attention, love, laughter, a few tears and lots of memories....how lucky they are...
