I thought my first week off would be spent relaxing, reading and watching movies I've been wanting to see.  HA!  So wrong, I'm not sure what I was thinking.

Monday we went to meet up with another family at the park and had a fabulous time trying to teach our 3 - 11 yo children how to play kickball.  Kickball is one of those things that you just assume everyone knows how to play until you talk to your homeschooled kids and they say, "huh?"  So here we are, 2 moms with seven kids of varying ages, totally not getting our instructions.  You can hardly see the frisbees we are using for bases so when we instruct the 3 yo to run to third base he doesn't know where that is.  Instead we figured we'd make it easy for him and we tell him to run to 8yo brother.  He's such a good boy he does exactly what he's told but meanwhile 8yo brother has left third base and is chasing the ball all over the field so here goes the 3yo right after him.  And the game continued pretty much like that for at least a half hour or more.  We laughed so hard - what a delightful game we had.  Mostly we just kept losing the kids.  The little ones just wanted to swing on the park gate.  After our game of kickball we let them play what they wanted then took them for a short walk on the nature trail.  All in all it was a wonderful afternoon but filled with good old fashioned exercise.  I wish I had brought my camera.

Tuesday dd had color guard practice and I spent my spare time sorting books for an upcoming book sale and preparing the program for our talent show coming up this weekend.  Not very exciting but at least I accomplished something.

Wednesday morning I continued with the books, made some space in the basement (very little LOL) and then spent the afternoon with friends.  DS wacked his forehead on the corner of the bathroom vanity and scared the daylights out of me.  I was worried he would need stitches but thank goodness my df, who is also a PA, was there and she looked at the wound.  She was able to verify that I did not need to take him to the ER and in fact he should have no scar because of the location of the cut and the good tight bandaid. It looked yucky and I really felt queezy looking at it and still do thinking of it but it was looking 100% better by morning.  The kids played outside in the misty weather the rest of the day, they were just dying to get out.  And my friends and I walked with Leslie Sansone for a couple miles - more exercise.

Thursday, those same df's came over to visit me.   We just can't get enough of each other.  We learned a new game called "Bang," the kids played inside and out, and then while the kids road bikes and scooters, we took a walk up and down my little road for a half hour, stopped, one friend had to leave and then we walked another half hour.  Yes, more exercise.

So that was basically my first week.  I didn't know summer was here so that I could exercise but I suppose it is good for me and my friends are good enough to encourage me through all my complaining. 

This week we are getting ready for a book sale fundraiser for color guard.  Should be interesting.  I'm not sure anyone will be there but it's our first try so whatever happens it will be good practice for next year.

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