Hooray for Tuesday!

All I have to say is Tater starts preschool this Tuesday...thank you God!

Ah, the wonders of parenthood!

I must admit, I've been slacking with the blog lately. I must also plead my case...you see, with trips out of town, PTA meetings and planning, back-to-school rearing its ugly head, and lack of time to actually clean and do laundry, I've been a bit swamped. This summer has been excruciating, and I'm pleased to say it's over...HOORAY!!

What has happened since May you ask? Well, among the teeth losing, inch growing, hair pulling days of summer, my boys have learned and done quite a bit. No, we are not one of those families who leave town on glorious vacations abroad or even those who take massive road trips with their kids. We enjoy keeping our money (and our sanity) and prefer to do things a little closer to home. Of course, this may be where the "hair pulling" situations come from, but when you don't have much money, you stay home. Note to self: Come up with a brilliant plan to make money instantly, thus saving my coif for my old age.

This being said, we had an eventful summer. Booga, after some hair pulling, has finally learned how to ride his bike sans training wheels. This is a monumental task for him to accomplish considering we don't have the safest of streets to ride on with the traffic zooming by. He was forced to learn this incredible feat by practicing on our back patio which is only about 20x20. Needless to say, he is really good at turning.

We have also found that our patio is the perfect place to practice fishing for trees. Having bought a couple of children's fishing poles and giving the boys a few pointers on casting, they have become pros at hitting a tree no matter where they are standing in the yard. Don't get me wrong, they can cast a line with the best of them...it just seems to me that the trees in our yard really have a hankering for the casting plug. Virtually sucking it right out of the sky to entangle it in its branches to eat at a later time when us humans aren't around. Yet another hair pulling experience. After several attempts by the tree to entangle the plug so deeply within its grasp that it could save even the pole for later, the instruction turned more towards "see if you can avoid hitting the tree". Now we have two young casting prodigies that may rival the likes of Babe Winkelman. Next step, not jumping into the water while fishing. The joys of baldness.

Having grown my hair back, we embarked on family bike trips to the local high school parking lot and back. I know what everyone is thinking..."that's not a bike trip!" Well, you obviously don't know how out of shape our family was. Exercise has been chasing and playing with our kids. Not to mention the fact that the high school is about 2-3 miles away and it is down the hill from where we live. Did I mention that I was out of shape? Did I mention that the high school is down the hill from where we live? Did I mention that I am out of shape? Oh, wait, yes I did. Well, I am OUT OF SHAPE, and that damn 2 mile hill is a real "get your ass into shape quick" kinda hill when you just want to get back home and sit your fat ol' butt down on the couch in the nice fan breeze. Did I mention that I hate bike rides downhill? I must admit that once the dog days of summer hit, we slacked a bit (okay, a lot) and now I'm in need of more hills.

Then came August and with it the PTA. I know I posted about my never ending volunteer problem. Well, this year, it's gotten worse. Yep, got snagged into being one of the vice presidents this year. Why do I do this to myself? Oh, yes, I enjoy the torture. No, wait, I don't. Anyways, I am now officially in charge of finding fun and exciting activities for all of the families of Booga's school. I'm doing okay thus far, but school did just start. Now you see my dilemma. I have TONS to write about now, but no time to do it! I guess that's a good problem to have. At least I can't say my life is boring!