Summer has been a rough one, I might say. Kids are bored, hot, and not much to do. Part of that may be me being lazy, but we've gone to a park almost every day in the mornings. I'm sure they're tired of it by now. It's too hot to play outside by 10am most days, so then it's off to the stores we go until we come back home for lunch. In the afternoon, we usually go in the backyard where it's way too hot and play in the sprinklers. Come in, lay around for a while and then TV until Laura gets home. Rinse and repeat every day. I would like to do other stuff, but it's hard to get into the groove to do it. They do have a couple of things going on this Summer, such as Amazing Athletes at their old school and soccer and stuff, but, I dunno. I'm just burned out by them. They have been pretty whiny as well the last few weeks for some reason. Almost around the time we got back from going to Ashley's wedding in Indiana.
Oh, so that. We left the kids with Laura's parents for 3 days while we drove out to Ashley's wedding. It was a fun time to be there without worrying about the kids, feeding them, nap time, etc. I wish it were longer though so we could have done more or something. On the way home, we did stop by Cahokia mounds. It wasn't as cool at the documentaries I've seen showed it. We climbed up the highest mound. The view was cool, but that's about it. Pretty tiring to do in hot weather.
What else. Other than general lack of motivation to do anything, that's about the extent of the news. Tomorrow the kids start camp at the old school MWF all day, which is nice for me, obviously. However, what am I going to do?! I really want to finish this first book of my fantasy series and to publish it on Amazon, but I'm not sure. I wanted to Laura to re-read the edited draft because I added a lot of stuff to it. Maybe I just need to go through it again, take care of any mistakes and then just publish? I dunno.
I should be doing stuff right now, but I'm probably just going to end up surfing and writing this blog. I just don't know how to get started to do things. I often start it and stop halfway.
We still haven't gotten the fricken fence fixed. We've contacted a couple of places, but they don't seem to call back for estimates. I dunno what to do. We want to fix the fence and then put the shed and play area for the kids in the back. We also, I think, really need to talk about getting a van. We are just so short on space in the SUV, even with the hitch basket. It's weird. The thing is, I'm not sure if a van would solve that problem. I don't think we would get much more room out of it unless we put a hitch on it like now. Then we would definitely have more room. A decent Odyssey with decent miles would be around $22000. A bit more after taxes and fees. That's a lot of money.
We are also planning on taking a trip to Colorado during Thanksgiving break this year. We were looking at cabins in Estes Park for a few days and a few days on the front range visiting family/friends.
Yesterday, I read that my old friend from high school had just moved back to Longmont. I am thinking about trying to get the old gang back together for little reunion. I think it would be fun. It has been, what, almost 10 years since we've been as a group. Maybe a bit more, actually.
Well, I should get to...doing nothing...tomorrow is going to be another stressful day. Full day at camp for both. I'm sure Connor will be all right, but I dunno about Emmeline. She is DEFINITELY not going to take a nap during nap time. I hope I don't get a call from them. I really don't know what I'm going to do. I don't want to be too far away in case they call or something, but, I dunno. Whatever.
