Ha! Hahahahahaha!!! Ha.
Ok, now that we've had a good laugh, I'm going to go completely out of order and write down what I want to remember about this summer so far. I'll come back to March, April, and May sometime. Probably.
This summer has been so blissful and fun and chaotic, and most of all, FULL. There has been a whirlwind of lazy mornings, soggy swimsuit and towel piles on the floor, playdate after playdate, attempted camping (without somehow ever succeeding, more on that later), and picking and eating raspberries right off the vine and warm from the sun. We have weekly long, long, LONG drives to the allergist for Leannan's peanut allergy treatments (as of today she is up to 7 peanuts in the morning and 7 at night! Miracles! We only have 4 visits left!), but also long hours of staying home where I listen to countless cries of, "I'm bored!" while I am working, until I relent and Netflix wins so I can get some stuff done.
Sweetheart has been full of so many fun ideas this summer. First, she decided that we need a theme for each day, so only princess dresses should be worn on princess day, and only ballet leotards on ballerina day, etc. Then she decided that we needed a pool party and they both put on their swimsuits despite the fact that we have no pool. After a long "pool party" in the bathtub, I threw shampoo on their heads and declared that close enough to a bath for that day, and decided that toweling up the swampy bathroom could definitely be counted as mopping it.
Princess has spent the summer full of expectation. She has been on the verge of so many things that she couldn't do before, and has been jumping off the walls with excitement and incredibly timid, all at once. She was so excited to finally be able to start swimming lessons, but wait, does that mean she actually has to get in the pool? She wasn't too sure about that. She also can't wait to be a gigantic Kindergartner, and asked me so often when school starts that I printed her off her own calendar so she could mark off the days and count down. She also decided to make things exciting and swallowed 2 pennies, just 4 days before Marquis's insurance from his new job kicked in. As a medical transcriptionist, I have typed up many reports describing the removal of coins and/or other foreign objects from a child, and each time I would laugh. Thanks, karma, for coming to bite me in the butt! I couldn't decide whether we should go in to the doctor or not, but Marquis convinced me to at least wait until she had some symptoms before we went in, and I'm glad I listened to him because everything came out okay in the end (Get it? Har, har!) and we got our 2 cents worth (Ha!! I'm hilarious! Actually I stole these jokes from people who commented on my Facebook post about it, but ssshh, no one needs to know that, they can just keep on thinking I'm a comedian.)
And my garden! When Marquis and I bought this little house, we thought it was so funny that we had gone from apartments and townhouses where someone else always took care of the yard, and then we bought this place that has a bazillion fruit trees, a huge garden spot, and more grass that it is humane to make anyone mow, ever. The past two summers we have lived here I have sort of attempted to grow a garden, and both times it has been apparent that gardening isn't necessarily a talent I was born with. But this year? I'm so proud of my garden this year! Our fruit trees have been producing like crazy, and so far I've been keeping up and able to get it all preserved in one form or another before the birds eat it all or it goes bad. I did kill everything we planted the first time in the garden, and since we replaced it most things have continued to live! There are definitely still more weeds than anything else, but I have been able to spend at least 15 minutes each day in the garden, and I have been enjoying myself so much! I love that my girls are also getting in there and seeing firsthand where their food comes from, and that they are learning from a young age how to grow and take care of their own food. They have even learned to take any ladybugs they find right over to the kale, and so far that has been enough to keep our kale free from icky aphids.
Overall, this summer has been a whirlwind and I have definitely not been able to keep up, but every once in awhile, after I tuck the little girls into their beds at night, I have been able to overload our dishwasher, gather up the soggy swimsuit piles, sweep up the corners and put our cute little house to bed.
What a glorious, beautiful summer!
Life is good.
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