Please forgive my lack of blogging (at least on this blog) lately. The summer has been so busy that I feel that I cannot even keep up with the mundane, necessary tasks, let alone the fun ones like sharing my thoughts with the rest of the world. The summer has been an absolute blur. It was a lot harder than I thought it would be adjusting to Sierra being home all the time. Although she is a really good kid, I found that I really missed the time I had to be alone with Raquel in the mornings. Also, it made going anywhere that much more difficult because I had to take both of the kids with me. However, it is almost over as Sierra starts Kindergarten on Monday. I am part excited and part nervous. Part of her life will now be out of my control. Thus begins this process of letting go. I will just have to trust God to take care of her when I cannot.
I guess that I will give you a brief synopsis of our summer so that you can get caught up with what's been going on...
In June James flew down to Baton Rouge for his biological father's wedding. As is usually the case, I ran myself ragged trying to get stuff done while he was gone. I got the entire garage and the majority of the basement organized and cleaned. He was really excited to see all the work I had done.
In July the main event was Sierra's birthday. James took Sierra for her first campout the night before her birthday. It was a little hard for me having her gone because, since she was born at 12:20am, I usually stay up until that time and look in on her, but this year I couldn't. She still managed to turn five though. On her birthday we went to lunch at Bob Evans and went to the pet store to pick out her present, some fish. We wanted to get her five fish for her fifth birthday, but the associate said that our tank could only handle two right now. So she got two fish that she named Nemo and Butterfly.
The next week we had her birthday party. It was a lot of fun. You can check out our family blog to view pictures.
My grandma was here for about a week and we were able to enjoy lots of family time.
On August 5th James and I celebrated our 8th wedding anniversary. We had a appetizers at the Olde Jaol tavern, went to a movie at The Big Picture (Get Smart - pretty funny), and had a nice dinner at the Olde Jaol. James and I were both not feeling well so that put a bit of a damper on our evening, but we still had a nice time.
I will try to do a better job of keeping up. I have a few more books to write about sometime soon.
Stay tuned...
