Summer Time...

Can you finish that song? Anyone who sings,  "and the living is easy," obviously does not have young children. Just sayin'

Oh yes, I should say hi. Remember me? I'm that imperfect mom who loves to write about her life, her kids, and  whatever other thought is running through my head at the time. Yes, it's been a while. I've been busy, and then we drifted apart. I thought about you from time to time, but it seemed to awkward to call, so I just didn't. Now and then I see the blogger url and think about all the great times we had together ;)

I decided to make my triumphant return to the blogoshere this summer, and I'm challenging myself to take a photo every day. I don't need to blog about each photo, and I don't have to post the photo the day I take it, but I will have photographic evidence of our amazing (and not so amazing) summer. So here goes!

Our first day of summer vacation was spent having tons of fun. Okay, maybe TONS is a slight exaggeration, since after working out, we had to spend the day with the basement crack fixer guy. Yep, technical term, and exactly what it says on his name tag. We've had this crack since we moved it, but lately it decided to leak. Way to go crack! At least it was during the "off" season so we got someone out here pretty quickly. After the crack was fixed and we breathed in the toxic fumes for a few hours we headed out for Olivia's last day of swim lessons. Here's some photos of her jumping off the diving board.

Not so much on the form, but fearless. That's my girl!

Second day of vacation was a much needed mommy/Olivia day. These days herald back to when Olivia was 3 and going to preschool, and any non preschool day she titled, mommy/Olivia days. Since Clara's been born we haven't had one, but this summer Clara's going to preschool two days a week and I'm spending that time with her.

We spent the day doing things we love, garage sale shopping and the zoo. Here's a photo of Olivia before we headed out.

Friday dawned bright and warm, and another day with just the two of us. We hit some more garage sales, where I found the holy grail, Big Boggle. Well, Boggle Deluxe to be more accurate. Been looking for this game for years, and saw it sitting there all pretty in it's blue box marked $2. Played it cool and picked it up for $1. Woot-woot! Now to teach Olivia to play, since Mike doesn't really care for the way I gloat when I win, and I always win ;)

Olivia even picked up a few things from the garage sales. Here's a picture with her finds.

Saturday we woke up to Olivia not feeling well. We missed our last session of gymnastics and Olivia and Clara stayed with Mike while I hit the grocery store. Picked up materials for some crafts and a birthday cake for Mike. Yes, I know, I should have baked it, but leaving next week and I so do not have the time.

We celebrated Mike's birthday together and I worked on my felt fish craft. I'll post a photo with the blog for Sunday. Olivia rallied and ate some cake, and we had a quiet evening together.