Oh, hello there!

Where have we been? Well, let's see.....

Madeline has been working one day each week doing data entry for a friend's business. She has to deal with truck drivers! Poor girl. I know there's been some knitting going on--something about knitting a roll of toilet paper. Seriously. There's also been a lot of reading, per the usual.

Jack has been at baseball practice. A lot. Like everyday for the past 14 days we've either run him to and from practice or been watching a scrimmage game. Be sure to ask me about the awesome EMT skills I've learned while being a spectator. This weekend is the district tournament so we'll just have to see where that takes us.

Jon has been further studying World War II history. Though now he's pursuing an interest in the Korean War/Conflict. He has entered an interesting developmental stage where he is overly paranoid about germs, poop, and life in general. Makes for some remarkable conversations.

Sarah is talking like crazy. Just today she told Madeline that last night's thunderstorm "scared the pee out of me!" Hmmmm. And there was one day of successful pottying. Just one day.

Bill has been wowing the locals with his incredible baseball skills. Oh yeah, he still has it. Last night he threw BP (batting practice) to a bunch of 12 year old boys and struck them all out. Except the one who hit the ball W-A-Y over the center field fence. I'm told he did make an unbelievable catch and throw a kid out at first. We're proud of dad.

I've been busy Momming. Lots of driving, cooking, knitting, and coordinating everyone's different agendas. I've finished freezing the zucchini, almost finished with the pickles, picked countless blueberries to freeze (and certain people ended up with chiggers!), made another batch of soap, and nailed a new cheese recipe. I've pulled ticks off of kids, procured new swimwear for everyone, completed this year's lesson plans for school, and unsuccessfully fought off Japanese beetles on my beans. Heck, that's all I'm going to say about me because listing it all makes me tired. Did I ever explain that I'm a totally overzealous, workaholic, type-A person? Oh, and that I don't sleep anymore because of insomnia? I'm a ton of fun to be around sometimes.