Feels like Fall in August

Fall has made an early arrival in mid August, and I welcome it with open arms!  It makes any outdoor activity fun, bearable, and lovely.  My running appreciates it, too. 

We have fallen into a nice monotonous routine of football, piano, football, volleyball, relax these last few weeks of summer.  This will abrubtly be changed to utter chaos on Aug 28th when school begins, and additional activities/homework are added to the mix.  Nick is signed up for baseball.  Lauren is signed up for gymnastics.  School is going to start no matter how much we beg it not to.  So, we will try to enjoy the last 2 weeks of monotony while we can.

Lauren, Clare, and Alli

 

Last Thursday, we were happy to have Alli, Owen, and Clare come play during volleyball.  Friday Ryan took Lauren to the doctor because we feared she had the dreaded pink eye that has been making it's rounds at daycare.  The Doc prescribed pink eye drops, and I filled the precription.  But, I knew there was nothing wrong with those eyes when I got home and her eyes were clear as a bell.  We are blaming the swelling and pinkness on the bug that was lodged in her eye at football practice 2 nights before.  Girl doesn't have pink eye!  But, I have the meds in case she gets it.

 

Ryan also had concrete poured under the house Friday afternoon.  This is round 1 of 3 pours to complete Nick's basketball court project by Nick's birthday. 

 

Saturday, the kids and I went on an intense back to school shopping spree.  6 hours later, we had all 1,546 school supplies (these lists are unreal!), and Lauren had new tennis shoes/outfit for the first day.  Nick had zilch, nada, nothing new for his first day.  I couldn't talk him into anything.  He doesn't care about clothes, says he doesn't need anything, and says he's got all he needs.  Amen, son.  That evening, we welcomed our river house friends and enjoyed a riverside evening.

 

Sunday we did a bit of this and that, then relaxed down at Treasure Island.  Nick went off the rope swing a few hundred times, Lauren swam, and Ryan and I worked on our tans.  Then it was home, dinner, and off to bed. 

 

Tomorrow I head down to SC to visit my oldest and dearest friends for a long and much needed girls weekend.  I'm already missing the kids, but I'm also very excited.  Very. Excited.