Summer Days

We are well into our third week of summer and the days are drifting by fairly quickly.  But wow, is it HOT and steamy already.  Consequently, we are not spending a lot of time outdoors.  I havent blogged much because we're not doing anything terribly blogworthy.

In the last few days we've celebrated Marty's birthday, our anniversary, and we've played lots of video games.  We watch TV.  We fix meals and snacks together.  There's a lot of extra cleaning and meal prep with everyone home, and yet everyone is always hungry and the house is always a mess. Explain to me how that works?

Then there's the routine doctor's visits for allergy shots, grocery shopping, and errand running, as well.

Yesterday we had to run three long errands.  At the last minute I stuck on an extra one.  Sam groaned from the backseat of the car and said, "Mom, that's only going to add more time to all this boring running around."  Then he added, only half-jokingly, "You need to plan these things out in advance, so I know when to complain." 

Yesterday we ventured outdoors to smack around the badmidton set we got at Walmart. 

We last about fifteen minutes both times we went out.  That was it for athletic activity for the day.

We've also got a game of Monopoly going. And going. And going.  It stays out and we play a few rounds each day. Lucy came along and flopped on it a couple of days ago and wiped out everyone's properties.

Oh well, even kitties need to do a little Monopoly in their spare time!

And now back to our summer programming.