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Brain fog and summer vacation…

As a homeschool mom and blogger I often wonder why my blogs are not eloquent and thought-provoking. As I sit typing there are three extra kids in my house. That makes 7. One son is feeding a neighbor, two are on the trampoline and a few are upstairs on the XBox. The girls are running around screaming as they play some imaginary game.

Since beginning the process of editing the pictures you are about to see I’ve stopped, vacuumed the kitchen and den, made lunch for myself (only), came back to the computer, looked for a Bible, put a load of laundry in the wash, remembered I was supposed to be working on photos……

Came back to the computer.

Got up again to “lay down the law!”

Tried to remember what I was going to blog about.

Got up again to send them all to the pool.

Asked one son to flip the laundry. Asked another if he wanted to go to the Apple Store because his iPod touch dropped in the driveway yesterday and I ran over it. YIKES.

Remembered I needed to go to the grocery store.

Then sat back down to blog. Now baby girl is in here complained about her brother choking her and “He could have made her die!!!”

And I wonder why my thoughts are scattered and my brain feels like that commercial of the egg frying.

So before I must get up once again here is my scattered but posted post. (Does that even make sense??)

Fun In The Sun

Our Fourth of July was spent in SC as stated in my previous post.

We had a blast seeing friends from our home of 10 years. Several families joined us for the Fourth. One made a Corn Hole game and we ate ribs, hamburger, hotdogs, shrimp and steak. It was a feast, I tell ya!! Makes me hungry even thinking about it.

While we missed many of our friends because they were on vacation too we enjoyed the ones who stayed behind! Thanks guys!!

Here’s a few pictures from our trip.

Two men who should not be allowed in the same county!

Maybe this tells you a little of the story of why!

The host of our Fourth of July event. I don’t care what anyone says, he’s a good ole man!!

Fighting in the pool.

Let’s get the girl!

Brotherly love! Our friends from KY whose son’s wedding we attended on Sunday.

These two have been great friends since they were wee ones. Now he throws her in the pool and loves to carry her on his shoulder. Wonder what the future holds here?

The end of a spectacular evening! The men wooed the women with some awesome fireworks!

Ok, how many sentences is that in a row? Guess I better stop while I am ahead. There is thunder coming from the upstairs and too many boys in the house. CALGON!

Ramblings…

Since I began this post several weeks ago I’ve traveled home to SC for a week long visit leaving left my new user name and password in Fla. So there was no blogging while I was gone. But I was personally able to touch and druel over The Scooper’s classroom nook.

Then we came back to our last soccer game and began a 5 day battle with the upper respiratory crud. It’s been rough on my oldest who has had a fever for 4 days.

I’m thrilled to have a new blog site all my own. I’ve loved HSB but it was time to move on. Time to spread my wings and fly. I hope some of you will still drop by to see me. I can’t wait to see how the new blog design will end up.

Back to Soccer…here’s my baby…my 6.5 year old, size 3 shoe wearing baby…

I don’t know why I love this picture of her. Maybe it’s the look of concentration on her face as well as the signs of the young woman I see her becoming. She’s a mess, this last born of ours. I love the way her hair curls around her face when she’s hot. She can put her pony tail in all by herself now. Quite an accomplishment until the day we visited the Super Cuts. Now she’s sporting a sweet bob again and a trophy.

She was so excited to have her first trophy and toted it around everywhere before we convinced her it belonged on a shelf.

Baby girl and I are diligently learning how to read, my least favorite schoolish thing to do. She’s doing very well I might say but because I find it grueling so does she.

Coming home to FLA has been a bit of a smack in the face. REAL school instead of fun field trips. No friends instead of terrific friends and then a bought of sickness. But SC soothed our souls with 38 degree nights, campfires and lots of visits with my sweet friends.

We’ve made our own little campfire set up since returning. It’s not our big pit we had in SC but it’s a nice iron looking thing that fits a little better in our gated FLA neighborhood. But I wonder still at the house God has for us here. After my hubbie left SC to return to FLA my boys kept the campfire burning in the back yard for three more days. My second-born loves the woods, chopping down limbs and fanning the flames of the campfire. My heart wants him to have those things here too. He’s a boy after all!!!

So we continue to wait and watch…keeping our hands out of what belongs to God…our lives.