Thursday, June 22, 2006
Yesterday was Hunter's last day of school. Hallelujah! No more getting up early and running myself ragged before 8:00am. I love lazy summer days and wearing our pajamas till noon and watching the boys turn brown and eating popsicles in the hammock with my babies and watching the kids chase fireflies in the evening with Mark sitting by me in our big, rusty porch swing. That's what I call Heaven!
So anyway. . . we kicked off the summer with playgroup in our backyard. Hunter chose a new slip-n-slide for his end-of-the-school-year treat and we fired that up along with the kiddie pool and several water guns. We had the biggest turn out to playgroup yet and it was so much fun. Even Caleb braved the slip-n-slide and crawled right across the entire two lane slide, sprinkler and all, in order to get to the swingset. We had popsicles and lemonade and granola bars and lounged around until well after lunch time. It was fabulous! I tell ya, there's something therapeutic about getting together with friends and just chatting for awhile. I definitely need to do that more often.
 After our friends had gone we retreated indoors and sat in front of the A/C for awhile. I forced the boys into working on a summertime journal and managed to fold several piles of laundry while they played their computer games. After dinner we returned outside to clean the chickens' coops and squirt their poop off the porch and play a bit. Denver is our "Poop-inator" and loves to hose down the porch and driveway and free us of all the chickens' droppings. Noah pushed Caleb in the swing to earn a dollar to pay off a new gadget he got at Target. And Hunter invented the "Flying Rocking Chair." (See Picture of Denver.) I only wish I was five years old so I could sit in it awhile.
When I could stand the humidity no longer, we returned indoors once again where I finally got around to making that strawberry pudding (and some chocolate pudding for Denver.) I thought it was the perfect ending to our first day of summer vacation. But then Mark came home from Elder's Quorum meeting and announced that the fireflies were out and I love the fireflies. So we watched the fireflies for a little bit and then our first day of summer break really was complete. I know not every day is going to be this fabulous but I sure am glad for the days that are this wonderful. Noah is already wishing summer was over and that Hunter was back in school because he knows when Hunter goes, he goes and he can hardly stand the wait. But I think I can wait awhile longer and I hope the summer goes really slow. My heart aches at the thought of another one of my babies growing up and going off to school. I'll sure miss him come the end of summer.
P.S. Did you know that Fireflies need humidity almost more than they need air to breathe? It's true. So the next time you catch fireflies in a jar, make sure you give them a wet papertowel, even before you worry about punching holes in the lid. They'll thank you for it.
posted by Shana # 9:39 PM 
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