Why are summers so busy?

Actually, I know the answer to this question, but it seems like every summer I have grand plans, and every summer they get put to the side as we buckle in for a roller-coaster of a busy season.

 

So far our summer has been filled with messy fun.  This started off with the kids happily playing with some leftover oobleck from a project.  Then it deteriorated into a big huge mess.  A HUGE MESS, that I think they had almost as much fun cleaning up as they did making it.

Epic sand castle building.  My kids and a friend spent two hours building a sand castle village.  It had fortifications, tunnels, moats, it was epic.

We have started the great preparations for Rock the Rock, that’s our church’s version of VBS.  It starts on Tuesday if you’re in the area and looking for a fun VBS.  I was in charge of pre-K again, this picture is part of our epic craft preparations, and it was EPIC!  Of course that consumed most of June so far.  While the boys were at camp Princess and I spent hours putting together the final bits and pieces.

We had an epic space discovery week, we created rockets, landing systems, rover retrieval systems, explored oobleck oceans, and so many more fun activities.  Of course this is what led to the mess I mentioned up above……

I did an epic dining room rearrangement, and now my boys are very excited to have limited access to all of their Uncle Sam’s figures from MageKnight.  Yes all of those drawers are filled with small gaming figures, and some not so small.  EPIC!

We dropped the boys off at camp and picked them up a week later absolutely filthy.  They were somewhat orangeish because the dirt has a slight red tint.  They were also about two shades darker because of how much sun they got.  I’m also exceptionally proud of them because they memorized ALL TEN BIBLE VERSES THAT WEEK.  And their team came in first for the Iron Cabin competition, which encompasses attitude, sportsmanship, and so many other things, it was awesome!

In my week of being an only child parent I was exceptionally busy.  We went to two of her favorite movies, watched a couple more at home, did some crafts together, had a tea party, had a friend over, AND finished all of the Rock the Rock stuff (that alone was over 15 hours of work this week).  It’s been a very busy week.

And next week will probably be just as busy because next week we have Rock the Rock, and it’s going to be awesome.  Tiring, but awesome.  So, if you’re wondering where I disappeared to, I’m probalby collapsed from exhaustion.  I’ve got a few posts I’m trying to get out, but right now I’m thinking I’ll be lucky to survive to Friday.