Life on a Saturday evening is so much fun. Especially when your dad thinks you are old enough to use the lawn mower! Kendra has waited patiently for her turn with the lawn mower for the past 2 years. Jerome frequently is able to help dad with most of the yard, and Kevin has been mowing the back yard starting this summer. But Kendra, has been running around the yard wishing and hoping that she could have a turn with the lawn mower. This weekend the big day had arrived and she was able to "circle" the back yard once with the lawn mower and her daddy at her side. She was so excited!
We had spent the day at Sea World with Grandma while daddy was at work. Much fun was had at the park, and great excitement could be heard waiting for the Shamu show as Grandma had bought new books about polar bears.... "Did you know......" and "Wow!".... could be heard for the entire 30 min wait. We had a great time and enjoyed the "not as hot" weather as it is finally starting to not be 6 million degrees outside (only a small exaggeration!). Daddy is now on day shift and we LOVE it! Oh the difference of a two parent family each and every evening!
I started to only do the essential laundry each week, and let the kids actually wear some of the other clothes in the closet. This has given me much extra time, and now I only do "all" of a child's laundry when they run out of other outfits. For the boys this means that I only wash pj's, socks, underwear, and shorts weekly. When they run out of clean shirts, then I wash all of their clothes. For Kendra I only wash the undergarments as she has way too many outfits (one month later and we still have clean clothes to wear!) But I must say that I do not buy all of the clothes as we play "pass around" with several other families with older and younger kids. This had lead to a full closet, but now I smile as I still don't have to do the laundry for her yet. Mom said that I'll die a dreadful laundry death when it comes time to do the mountain of laundry she has... but that will be for another weekend!
We have a busy week ahead.... Jerome has 2 days of speech therapy, Kevin has an allergy appointment and there is Cici's Pizza Night for the elementary school. I am sure I'll make it to the end of the week, but likely it is to feel like a long week.
