Category: summer

one child is harder than five children

Doug and the older boys have gone camping for the weekend. Even though the weather is beautiful, they are having a fish fry tomorrow and he took my camera, Doug won’t have any fun. He is in one of his woulda, coulda, shoulda moods and will spend every moment thinking he should be doing something […]

I love summer vacation

I love that the mornings start late and I can still listen to the birds singing while the teenagers sleep the daytime slumber of vampires. I love the suspension of time as we live without the suffocating schedule of school, homework and bedtimes. I love listening to all of the children playing (and bickering) together […]

word of the day

Caveman Sunscreen – The layer of dirt and filth that covers my children after a mere moment outside. Mom says: “I don’t care if it’s your summer vacation, you still have to bathe.” AND “Playing in the sprinkler is NOT the same as taking a bath.”

clone me please

This is one of those weeks that people without children just can’t comprehend. We have multiple events at four different schools every day and night this week. Monday’s marathon starts with the morning school bus shuffle and there is not an unscheduled moment until 9 p.m. Tuesday is only slightly less packed. I just need […]

tmi

The heat index is 105, so I think I’ll wear underwear with snowflakes on them. What? You don’t think it’ll help?

lightning bugs

The lightning bugs are pretty much gone now, but a month ago the children were catching about 25 a night, just playing in our cove. Except for three that got set free in the house (to disappear) and one that got squished by a jar lid, we let them all go free.

the smell of elephants in the summer

Since the heat index is around 100, I am giving in to Amy’s begging and taking the children to the zoo tomorrow. Did I ever tell you the story about the time I had a heat stroke at the zoo and ended up on a gurney in the medical room? Or the time Noah had […]

because I couldn’t find a g-rated weather quote

“The weather out there today is hot and sh***y with continued hot and sh***y in the afternoon. Tomorrow a chance of continued cr***y with a p***y weather front coming down from the north. Basically, it’s hotter than a snake’s *ss in a wagon rut.”

be safe Sarah

Tomorrow morning, Sarah leaves for 10 days at a Florida beach with her best friend’s family, she found the place she is staying in at The Florida Review Guide online. Her friend’s father is a law professor at UT, but he’s not a blogger. I’m not very well-versed in Catholicism, but it seems that they […]