It’s Not About Me…

Hi all!  I have been having way too much fun to write lately, but I finally decided to sit down and do this “blog” thing once and for all since I KNOW how much you all miss it and grieve when I don’t write!  (Yea, RIGHT!) 

 First of all, my biggest news…  we got a wonderful FREE vacation!!!  My mother-in-law, whom I love so much, has a summer place up in the mountains of NC.  They left to go out west for a few weeks and invited us to use their NC place while they were gone.  I took the boys up two weeks ago today (Tuesday) and we were there for a week and two days.  During our stay Brittney & my nephew, Billy, came up for 2 nights and then on the weekend my hubby, Greg came up.  We had a great, relaxing, fun, nature-filled time!  I hiked with the boys up to Linville Falls which was 1½ miles round trip!  Wow!  It was such an awesome thing as having a vacation this summer was not a possibility for us.  Thanks to Mom, we all, especially the boys, got a summer vacation they will remember forever.   Thanks, Mom!

 We would have stayed longer, but J.Jay had his youth group missions trip to go to.  We got back this past Thursday and they left on Sunday.  Brittney works every day and Greg is always working like a doggie, so Elijah and I have some rare one-on-one time this week.  He is also doing VBS this week in the evenings which gives me, even rarer still, some alone time every night.  Pretty cool.

It has turned out to be a great summer - I am just trying to get into the homeschool planning mode.  I am so busy with work, house, and other things that I still have not started my homeschool planning and I really wanted to start school on August 18th.  I may wait until the 25th if I must.  I still don’t have all of our school books, am praying to be able to get them later this week.  Speaking of homeschool, guess what I did!?!?!  I turned our sunroom into our new classroom.  I worked on it all day Saturday and put the kids desks in there and turned our armoir into a great place to house our school supplies, books, etc. and it looks AWESOME!  Plus, it is very functional.  I have the couch in there to use a a reading couch and it’s a great place for me to rest as I need to while teaching the kiddos.  Also, our ottoman in that room can also serve as seating and has wheels.  So I can be seated and “roll” right up to each boys’ desk!  Very cool!  I am very excited.  For some reason, I did not think that space would work well for our homeschool classroom, but I did NOT want it in our master bedroom again this year.  I was SO WRONG that is the perfect space for the classroom.  And one wall of the room is all windows so we get tons of natural light coming in.  I am SO EXCITED to start back homeschooling…  now I just gotta plan… 

Last thing - I have good news and bad news…

 Good news - I played some very light racquetball with Brittney on Sunday night.  Wow!  This is first time I’ve played racquetball in over 8 years (since we lived in El Dorado Hills, CA!) and certainly since P-Day.  I had a blast!  I played very softly and calmly and of course, it hurt - but who cares?  It was a BLAST!!  

Bad news - I seemed to have damaged my right arm…  playing racquetball.  I this point I can’t move it at all, not due to paralyzation - due to pain!  If I move it I practically scream out in agony.  Bummer,  I want to play more racquetball!  I need to let it heal.  Pain shoots down from my elbow to my fingers if I move my arm, and I can not pick up or grasp anything.  Typing this is painful, but I am doing it slowly moving my right fingers.  They don’t hurt when I move them, only if I put pressure on them.  Odd.  I don’t know if it is muscle or nerve damage - but I am sure it is just temporary damage - so…  no biggie.  Pray it heals quickly so I can go play more racquetball!!! 

 Elijah is begging me to take him to the pool (which we haven’t been to in a while) so I am off making more summer memories.  See ya!