Since he's been gone, Quinn has spent her days at summer camp and Rylan has been finishing the last days of school before his break. The kids all started a summer reading program through the base library and so we've spent some time there picking out books once or twice a week. It sounds really sweet and whimsical to spend mornings in the library but I dread going to the library with them because, like most kids, they're so stinkin' loud! Finley loves taking books off the shelves faster than I can put them back in the right location; the poor librarians have their work cut out for them when the Schaubs come to visit! They have a kids computer in there with kid games on it and it's the source of many quarrels between my three barbarians regardless if other wildlings have their own sights on a turn too. Library visits last all of 10 minutes and feel like an hour of herding cats and books to the check-out counter where the librarians politely smile at my chaos and frizzy unkept hair. Okay, I added the frizzy hair part, but seriously, it's out of control!
Speaking of out of control, the spiders and bugs are disgusting. I actually don't want to be outdoors because I know they're lurking out there. The bigger spiders gravitate towards the playground swings and unfortunately so do my kids. I also just recently had to relocate a different kind of spider who took up residence in the kids' empty plastic pool and beach toys on the patio. I feel like I conquered the world and was still humane enough to move it instead of squishing it. I was talking to that nasty thing, threatening it, "not to move or else!" I feel like after that episode of Caitlin's crazy spider whispering, I ought to revisit the book, Charlotte's Web, and tear a page from it to improve my communication skills. Just kill the mosquitoes and stay out of sight, okay?
I've met up with friends for dinner play dates and the squadron has held a few functions already with more to come. We went to Kuga Park last weekend which would have been a great time, except the kids all decided to gravitate towards the zip line and then spent way too much time and my patience arguing over turns. It's so much work to take them anywhere, it's almost not worth it to keep doing it. That is, unless I get some blood pressure medication to help simmer down the blood-boiling when they get out of control.
Ok seriously, end rant! That was very long winded and I promised when I started this new blog I would shorten up the commentary.
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