So Bummed

I thought my kids school started on the 29th of August but I just found out it starts on the 22nd. Do you know what this means?! I have to go back to California a week early! I am not sure why, but that week seems like a big deal to me. I don't want to go back then. Here are some of the things I am going to miss. My family, a race that my sister and I were going to run (this would have been my first race....sob), my family, my baby nephew being born, my mom and sister-in-law's birthdays, less time in El Centro with James gone (he is going to Tucson for work), my family, the cool weather and did I mention my family? I am really bummed about this. So bummed that in am close to crying. 4 more weeks is all I have left. :(

Picture This

I have a story I would like you to picture. A day with 8 children. During the day there is playing, fighting, teasing, screaming, crying, laughing and sometimes complete disobedience. The children are out swimming in the warm summer sun (you know it is not in El Centro because I did not say 'hot summer sun') when one of the many is getting a lecture from their mother. In the middle of said lecture the child turns around and just jumps in to the pool. The mother, having lost all patience jumps in to the pool, fully dressed to haul the child right back out. As she is jumping in she hears gasps from all around, one of which came from her mother, the child's grandma. The mother throws the child to the ladder, (really, it was not a throw because water is up to the child's chest, so it was more of a push) and unceremoniously hauls the child out of the pool and reads them the riot act as well as the other 3 that belong to her about minding, not screaming and fighting. One of the nieces says "Aunt so and so, did you know that you jumped in to the pool?". Haha. Welcome to a moment in my life.

Bring On Summer

Summer in Utah. Warm weather (not scorching). Days at the Rec Center. Parades. Fireworks. Dog shaking in fear because of said fireworks. Bar b ques. Shrimp boils. Family, family and more family. New babies (not mine!). Swimming and tans and sun screen. I love summer!