Month: August 2019

Summer Time Fun

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I am probably addicted to social media. I check it numerous times a day, and I post a lot too.  One time I went on a ten day social media fast, and to be honest I didn’t feel like it was life changing, but it did make me realize that I like my phone too much. It’s my outlet. I don’t think I over compare myself to others, but it is fun to peak into other’s lives. This summer though I tried to be intentional. I didn’t post on my blog, because I was trying to soak up my time with my three girls. This is one of the reasons I love camping. Both my husband and I unplug and enjoy the present.

This summer we went on two camping trips, did day trips, and LB and I went to Girl Scout Camp. I have to say the best was Girl Scout Camp partly because I had zero cell phone reception. It wasn’t even a temptation. Since it was useless I turned it off. It felt like freedom. I don’t think I could do it in my day to day life, but it has gotten me thinking about choosing camping locations that don’t have cell phone reception.

That was my summer’s life lesson. Enjoy your family, escape to nature, and get off your phone. 🙂

That’s it. I just really wanted to share some of my summer photos.

Back to School

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School started a week later this year, so that meant one more week of summer. I took the last week off, and did fun and exciting things with the girls. Since both LB and C Bear are in school this year, I felt it was really important to live it up a little. One Wednesday, I took all three girls up to the beach with some friends. They had a blast, and were so easy. I expected melt downs and contrariness, but they helped, listened, and had fun.

On Friday, Little N went to daycare, and I took the older two back to school shopping, got haircuts, had a “ladies lunch,” and had fun at the arcade. They each got a new dress, shoes, and a hair accessory. They both chose the same unicorn dress, the same unicorn shoes, but different headbands. LB got cat ears and C Bear got flower headbands. It was cute to see them pick out items, and try to hunt for items on their school supply list. For lunch we went to Johnny Rockets, and we got a milkshake to share. They loved that! After lunch we headed to the arcade where they played games and won prizes. It was fun to spend the day with them, and not have to break it up due to a nap (looking at you Little N). Later that night, we went to Back to School Night where we got to find out and meet the girls’ teachers. I’m pretty excited about who they have this year.

Come Monday, I was ready to see LB off to second grade. Summer is great, fun and easy (i.e. no homework), but having all three at home at once can lead to bickering, fights, and whining. Oh the whining. Someone always doesn’t want to do what the others want to do and then that leads to a melt down. It also helps that LB LOVES school. Like she can’t wait to go back love. I took the day off, and we took our standard first day of school picture using the same template that I used in previous years (yes, I am one of those type of people, I can’t deviate).

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Kindergarten Blues

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It happened. I had to send my second daughter off to school today. I put on a brave face for her so that she would go in thinking kindergarten is great, but on the inside I wanted her home with me. I remember being a little sad when LB started school, but not on the level that I am currently experiencing with C Bear. Couldn’t kindergarten be only three days and then I would have time with her? Couldn’t kindergarten share my daughter with me? Isn’t she supposed to be learning sharing? She was super excited, and I’m glad. I would hate for her to not like kindergarten. When I picked her up today, she seemed to like it and had fun, after all she got a smiley face on her hand made with a smelly marker. She did ask how long she had to go. My heart jumped a little that maybe she wanted me, but I think she just wanted to know her new schedule. When I told her five days a week she said, “ok,” like it was no big deal.

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While C Bear was off coloring, playing, and learning, I was at home alone and a little sad. So I went to Target (cause that’s what you do when you’re sad and want to go somewhere) and bought diapers and rainbow chip cookies to make life just a little bit better for just a little bit, and so that Little N has some diapers. This feeling of sadness started about a week ago.

The week leading up to kindergarten was a week of lasts. On Monday when I picked her up from preschool, they gave me her rest mat. She wouldn’t need it anymore because she was going to be a kindergartner. I about lost it at preschool. This was overwhelmingly sad. I even made a comment about it to one teacher, and she agreed. Her son was also starting kindergarten. Then on Tuesday she had her last morning swim lesson. We have been going to swim lessons on Tuesday morning for three years, but with her older sister already doing night swim lessons, and C Bear starting school it didn’t make sense to just have Little N. So we all go on Thursday evenings now. Much better for me, but still a little sad.

Now with LB and C Bear in school it will just be me and Little N on Tuesdays and Thursdays (I work part-time). I’m curious to see how it goes. I haven’t had just one child at home since LB was 21 months old. Who knows, I could change my mind and have another baby (not really, at least I don’t think so).

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