Author: Maya

What summer? Half of it is gone already. I’m flabbergasted over the idea that my kids will be back in school and a grade higher in just a month. When I was a kid, summer seemed interminable. Now? I blink and it’s freaking gone. I blink twice and an entire year has flown by *sob*

It’s not fair. Time should slow down as you get older. Not speed up to freaking speed of light.

I’m feeling pouty and grumbly today. My babies are growing up and I want them to stay right where they are.

Hope everyone stateside is having a wonderful holiday weekend! We got back from vacation late Wednesday night but we’ve been running ever since. My daughter’s all star team was still in the running so my daughter had a game the very next day. And they won 23-6! So practice on Friday afternoon but I had to run her into town to get new cleats and a new bat. My shrimp has had a major growth spurt in the last few months. She went from a size 4 shoe to a woman’s size 8 (boggles my brain)

So anyway, my husband and I were pitching to her before she had to leave for practice and she NAILED me with a line drive. Hit me in the elbow and omg PAIN. I sent her and dad on to practice all the while pretending it didn’t hurt because my daughter was CRUSHED that she hit me. As soon as they left I started whimpering like a girl. When they got home, my husband took me into the ER to get it x-rayed because the pain and swelling had only gotten worse. Good news was nothing broken. They put me in a sling and sent me home but good grief it hurt. Still hurts days later!

We have another game tomorrow night against the only team that has beat them so far. I told my daughter I’d forgive her trying to kill me if she’d hit like that in the game :)

Right now the kidlets are off buying fireworks with their dad and I just rubbed down the meat that’ll go on the grill when they get back. I’m SO bummed that our pool still isn’t finished. That would have made our weekend perfect. It’s taking forever and I’m getting impatient. We’re down to the last two steps and hopefully they’ll jump right on it Tuesday. But I’m not holding my breath.

Today was inspection after rebar and plumbing yesterday. Tomorrow is gunnite!

Kitty is recovering from her trip to the vet in which she lost her ability to reproduce.

Also going on in these parts, ground breaking on the new pool. This is just after it was dug. Today they’re laying rebar and plumbing. Saturday is gunnite!

Or I suppose I should say that in theory, it’s a lazy Sunday afternoon. The weather is warm and the skies are clear. No clouds. Sun’s out. Beautiful day. It’s the kind that makes me want to take a nap or be in a hammock somewhere slowly drifting between two trees. It’s quiet in the house right now, with only the hum of the air conditioner, but I tell you, it’s lulling me to sleep and I have a book to finish!

The kids are all in town with daddy. He’s taking my oldest to get new jeans. Have you ever tried to keep up with clothing for three kids? It’s a never ending process. The only thing worse is the laundry. But when they get back, they all want to go swimming. See, at the first of this year, we moved to a different house. After building a pool at our OLD house this past year. Yeah, I hear you. My husband wasn’t happy about it either. But the move was absolutely the right decision for us and everyone is so much happier. It’s bigger and more private (I hate living on top of neighbors in an “organized” neighborhood) I’m simply too private a person to every exist happily in those kind of circumstances.

We close on our old house this next Friday, so the kids are getting in their last days of the swimming pool. BUT and they will be so excited to know, that my husband and I just completed the design of a new pool and the MINUTE we close on the old house, we’re going to start construction here at the new house. So shhhhh! It’s a secret ;)

We learned a lot in building that first pool. I’m actually glad to have a second chance to smooth out design flaws that the first one had and to add the things that at the time we didn’t THINK we wanted but later regretted not getting. So the new pool is going to be more my dream pool than the first one, which was much more rudimentary in its design an function. And the great thing, is that it should be completed in June so we’ll have the entire summer to enjoy it :)