Time Flies

Even if you're not having fun.

Well.. not that life is bad or anything, but there's alot more fun in this world to do than what I've been doing lately.

But there has been some fun..

Like last week we went to the Air Show. It's occurred to me that so many people don't ever get to see an air show, let alone the Blue Angels and The kids and I have seen them at least a dozen times. I'm not THAT into jets, but I AM that excited about getting great photos of them. I didn't do that much of that this time. It was hot and the kids were complaining they were hot and bored so I was doing more juggling complaints and water bottles than messing with the settings on my camera. sheesh. Lack of gratitude, I tell ya. I bet their boy cousins would have thought it was uber cool.

And of course there was Soccer Saturday. It was picture day which meant we were up at the crack of morning getting in uniforms so we could be there 1.5 hours before the first soccer game.. fun times, I tell ya. And lot of cat herding. And someone didn't plan all that great when they scheduled. Or they did.. but the teams all have different color jerseys. Sonia and Joey are black and Kayla's bright green. And wouldn't ya know.. the older team with black shirts had their picture taking time slot at the same time as Sonia and Joey and both bright green teams were at Kayla's team time. Made herding cats by color shirt all the more challenging.

And this week we had rain. Real live rain. Whoot. Enough to cancel Soccer early Tues and completely on Wed, although not because it was raining, but because when you get rain on the sod fields they get soggy and muddy. Today.. it's back to soccer.

The first brownie meeting was Monday. I did little other than keep the girls in the room and try to field complaints of boredom and hunger from my 3 non-brownie kids. I'm in charge of planning the next meeting. They have badges they can earn, and we're going to finish up a badge. It requires making s'mores. Great. We meet indoors and I'm trying to plan something that requires fire. I'm thinking of using the sterno things we use for our fondue pot. I'll let you know if I get arrested for using fire in the community center. We meet every other week, so I have about 10 days to think about it and talk myself out of it.

Other than that, it's our 11 year anniversary this year. It's a bit hard to believe that 11 years can go so fast. We don't have any special plans. Larry was thinking of taking the all day hunter safety course and I don't really care if he does. Guess that's how we've stayed married this long with relative ease. I did tell him he will take me out to dinner. But I haven't even though about calling a babysitter and/or where I want him to take me. I'm thinking about the Brazilian steakhouse he took me to last year for my birthday. It was tasty and about as affordable as a one time a year event.  Of course if he doesn't do the hunter safety course, I have a van that's parked in the driveway broken again he can use the time to fix. This van is getting on my nerves. But I have the Excursion and I'm 1 of 12 of them who pick kids up at school. When you add the 15 Suburbans who also sit in the pick up line, it's a regular large SUV parade. I haven't run anything over with it other than a few curbs. We'll call that success.

The Navy Ball is the following weekend. I still don't know if we're going to go to it. He said he's supposed to go, but hasn't been able to get tickets. Last year's Marine Corp Ball wasn't very exciting so I doubt the Navy one will fill me with excitement. It'd be more fun if I knew anyone there. I'll have more chance of seeing some of the people Larry did his internship with, I think, but they're kinda cool towards us. Whatever. We never really fit in with them anyway, being the only family starting internship year and Larry's not exactly a social creature, particularly under stress and his first year was alot of stress.

JM's been complaining of stomach pains again, so after a week of that he was dragged back in to the peds clinic. He's back on his reflux meds and they ran blood work because the NP who saw him must have needed to rule out appendicitis and pancreatitis. Eitherway. He didn't have either. I told her that. So did his labs.  But it took the entire AM to accomplish the visit, the lab visit and the 2 hour wait at the pharmacy.  I still can't believe that my cousin thinks government run health care will make her life better. She has no idea.

So.. with no other rambling ideas in my head it's time for me to get something accomplished in the next 15 minutes before it's time to get inline to get the kids. I think I"ll try walking today. I'm in a risk taking mood. Not skydiving or anything crazy. Just walking. And listening to the complains of "I'm too tired to walk...." the entire way home. The risk is more loosing my mind than anything else, I think.