last days of summer

Some of the trees on our street are already beginning to turn color. Such a change from last year when the leaves stayed green until late October. Most everyone here starts school tomorrow, but we won't start up our school until mid September. David has a week of vacation in September and the plan is to start when that is over.

From August 2008

We have done some more swimming out at the little neighborhood lake and Jan and Alec can hold their own now (I do make them wear life jackets when we swim in a lake, even though they can swim just fine without them. The dark water is what makes me nervous, once something sinks, you sure are not going to be able to find it so I want my kids to float!)

From August 2008

We have had cooler temperatures in the morning and evening so they have had opportunity to wear their new sweatshirts!

From August 2008

Jan and Alec are pleased about starting school. I am realizing that I need to have a schoolbook for Anne too. I tried to get her to use crayons and a coloring book one day last week when the older kids were writing in last years school books. She let me know that she was not fooled. She wasn't using crayons, she needed a pencil and a real paper. It should be a fun year of learning for all of us.

From August 2008

From August 2008

David managed to get a few hours of sleep last night so he took the kids to Alec's flag football practice tonight. Jan counted out .75 in pennies to spend at the concession stand. All three girls can get a treat for that much money and they feel pretty special sitting on the grass with their suckers.

From August 2008

Alec eats up the chance to play football. Several of the other boys just are not that interested and their attention span is gone after half of practice. I think that the coaches have an amazing amount of patience and do a good job of teaching them what to do and how to do it. We were at the concession stand just before leaving after practice last week when a boy came up with a ziplock bag of change and asked "Is this enough to buy a hot dog?" While he was waiting for it to come he high fived Alec and informed me that "Wow, Alec is tough! He is just a little guy, he is only five and I am six and he can knock me down!" He was a pretty little guy himself but he sure walked like he thought he was six feet tall. The girls and I have fun people watching while we wait for practice to be done. Lots of funny people out there. I bet we do our share of providing entertainment for the other people too.



I won't say what this is but it has been a common happening this summer and we hope that we see less and less of it.