We’re trying to clear out our basement in order to store some stuff that’s strewn around the house a bit randomly. We’re not ready to get rid of the random items yet, but the basement junk is largely heading for the dumpster, the thrift store, and possibly a small garage sale.
It took us a while to come down from our little getaway (we were on something of a sugar-high from all that ice cream!) but reality has hit again. The big kids are back from sleepaway camp, so we’ve been trying to scale the heights of Mount Laundry, while the little kids are finished with the various day camps they’d been doing. Now it’s just us and them, partners in a struggle to stay sane until they return to school in September.
The ice cream was very good. Verrrry good. Some of the best ice cream we’ve had in months. Wish we had ice cream like that at home.
The apartment we’ve been staying is part of a small complex, and there’s a swimming pool outside. We had every intention of spending one day at the pool, but we’ve felt so lazy, and so content to just sit around and read, watch a little TV, nap, eat ice cream (!) and then read some more, that we simply haven’t left the apartment.
It seems funny to start a relaxing vacation by beginning a blog, but honestly it’s the first chance I’ve had in weeks to write. Life’s very busy, and it seems like a luxury to take time for myself to write.
My husband and I (gosh, I sound like the Queen of England, don’t I?) have been plotting for weeks to get out of town, just for a couple of nights. With four children and busy work schedules, it’s not as easy as we’d hoped. But right now our two oldest kids are at a sleepaway camp for a couple of weeks, and friends were kind enough to take the youngest two for an extended sleepover … so the coast was clear for our getaway.