Been home now for almost a week and I am still not on the right schedule! Not only am I getting tired of it, but apparently the 'ole hubbsters isn't too happy about it either! Guess he doesn't like my staying up until 4am rather then going to snuggle with him at a respectable hour.......*Sigh*, do you ever feel like no matter what you do, you're doing something wrong? Lol, story of my life right there!
I can't believe that we just celebrated 4th of July! Where has this year gone?!?!? I have to say that I was completely bummed that we weren't in Bako for the festivities. It is always so nice there. Momma and Daddy throw a HUGE shindig with cousins, Aunts, Uncles and Grandparents in attendance. Momma ALWAYS bankrupts herself at the firework stands -- yes, standS....she goes to ALL of them. Near her, across town, it doesn't matter, Kapperz G is going to visit and purchase! There is always an astonishing amount of great food, with Daddy heading up the grill (master griller is he!), great music beating the air as we all splash and play in the pool (or work on our tans!). The day just seems to last and last, as those moments of pure pleasure do....it is always just wonderful. This year was just a wee bit different for us, lol. There were no bbq's to head to during the day. No real plans to look forward to. It ended up being nice, though. We went to downtown New Bern and watched the fireworks at the park there. There were soooo many people, it was crazy! But I loved the small town feel of the event....it kind of reminded me of the parade that Julia Roberts is at in the movie, Sleeping with the Enemy . . . lol, always a movie, right!
This week is getting away from me. Here it is Tuesday and I haven't done a THING to get ready for our upcoming trip OR John's birthday. We are celebrating it early (just a day early) so that he can have a sleep-over but I haven't gotten the stuff to make his cake, his present, figured out just what the heck we are going to do with all the kids, etc...my mind is seriously not functioning properly. Ugh...I really need to get my butt in gear, make a list or something, and just get this stuff DONE already!
Ha, funny thing though. So, John walks in to my room the other day and reminds me that I haven't had them work in their summer workbooks yet!
Back story: Every school break I have the boys work in grade appropriate workbooks so that their minds are kept active and they don't lose any of the information they have learned at school. Yes, I am a mean Mom, get over it!
Anyway, John had first asked about working in their workbooks while we were still in Australia, much to his brother's dismay (Matt is not too keen on the whole thing). I assured John that I hadn't forgotten but had decided to let Australia be a "true" vacation, so no workbooks. Do you know, he was bummed about that. Bless his heart, he is a child after my own! Anyhoo, so apparently, since I didn't immediately upon returning home sit them down with their workbooks John thought it necessary to remind me about it. LOL! Love it :-) I gave them, and lets face it, ME, a week to get back into the swing of things (and I have obviously NEEDED it, dear dog!) before buckling down with summer school work. However, it will be on like donkey kong while we are 5 weeks in Bako!!! 4 weeks off, 5 weeks on...not too bad, I guess. Could be better but I am not going to beat myself up to bad . . .
Did I mention how excited we are to be heading to Bako!?!?!? Sooooo looking forward to being there, hanging out at the pool all day, visiting with my sisters (and bro) and niece and nephews, enjoying Daddy's bbq! Yep, yep, yep...can NOT wait! Oh, wait, let me rephrase. Did I mention how excited I am?! Ha, yea, so apparently both the boys, for different reasons, are not too keen on our upcoming travel plans. Why, you ask? Well, I'll tell you. Matt wants to be here to start football practice on August 2nd instead of coming in two weeks later (how much could he possibly miss is what I am wondering!) and John thinks that it might be more difficult to adjust to the time change when we get back and since it will be close to when school starts back up, that it might be a bad idea for us to go. A pox on them is what I say!!! We are going and we are gonna have a BLASTY BLAST!!!! Time in Bako, time at the beach, HELLS YEA! I am all over this :-)
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