School is finally over the and kids have mixed emotions. Mallory was really sad and said that she cried when she left her teacher, and Julianne was glad that her school year was over. Nathan was confused and did not understand why he was not going back to school. The kids have done pretty well over these first few weeks of summer break. They had a basketball camp which Mallory loved and Julianne did not appreciate. So that may be the last time we sign her up for a sports camp. She claims that sports camps are boring but she likes art camps. So that will be good for next year to know. We really don't have much planned for this summer. The girls are taking a few art camps, Mallory is taking a hors back riding camp, Nathan is doing a mini soccer season and he is doing the local safety town. So that is about it. I think they will be starting their local soccer season before we know it but I am glad that most of the activities are behind us.
The girls just finished up with their softball season and surprisingly they loved it. They both really enjoyed it and had a great season. Mallory improved a lot during the season and the coach said that she has the best batters stance of the league. Julianne also really improved and really like playing catcher. She is also thinking about trying to pitch next year so that is great to see her take that initiative.
We had our family reunion last week and everything went pretty well. We stayed at a local water park hotel and that was great for the kids. I must say that Lindsay is a crazy girl in the pool. She just wanted to walk of the ledge of the pool and go in without me holding her. She was crazy. I put a life jacket on her because of that and she screamed the entire time it was on. She is too small to swim alone with the life jacket and it was too big so I still had to hold her and she was also not thrilled with that. She would have drowned if we were not there. She was so persistent on going in by herself. So we ditched the pool and went to the water park where there was a zero entry point and she was much happier with that. She wants to do things on her own, in her own way and does not want to be told otherwise. I took her to a soccer meeting last night at the local library and she wanted to run around the entire library. If we went to go and grab her she would scream bloody murder. We would carry her back to our meeting and she would run like there was no tomorrow out of the room, up the stairs and into know man lands. I would have loved to let her go where ever she wanted and see how she reacted. Would she ever stop to see if I was behind her. At what point would she become scared that she did not know where we were. I don't know how she would react but she sure has a mind of her own.
Well we have some wired virus going on around this house. Nathan had a fever this weekend. I took him to the doctor thinking he had strep because he had white bumps on his throat. Then he broke out in a rash and it got worse last night. He was so itchy. Mallory is feeling the same way. The doctor is suppose to get back in touch with me since the overnight test did not show strep either. So I don't know if it is hand, foot, and mouth disease or not. Julianne had that when she was about 2 and it started on her face and hands. So this is a little different, so who knows.
Well I have pictures but I have not put them on photobucket so I will try to get them up later.
Things I am grateful/thankful for:
-seeing my entire family every year
-everyone getting along and feeling less negative energy/judgements
-Lindsay and her go getter attitude
-meditating with our family every night (we started this a few weeks ago)
