One week only, Harried Mom of Three

August 1. How is that possible? I seem to keep saying that, how time is flying, but it really does seem to be getting away from me. My big kids start school 3 weeks from tomorrow. Where did the summer go?? Thankfully we still have our beach trip to look forward to, coming up in 2 weeks. I'm not really looking forward to coming back from the coast and diving right into back to school, and then William has a birthday coming up on the 26th! He was very excited last night to realize that today is August 1 :) Do you remember being anxious for your birthday to arrive, and not having the astonished feeling that yes, another year has past and you are ALMOST 41? Oy.

I dropped Evie off at Girl Scout camp yesterday. She'll be gone for a WHOLE WEEK. The house is a lot quieter this morning without her here, and I know I'm really going to miss her! Evie has really grown up so much just in the last 6 months, she's been a pleasure to have around :) The girls are doing 'Pajama Party', so it will be a week of facials, manicures, and lots of fun things like that in addition to swimming, hiking, and camp fires. I hope she makes good use of the disposable camera she packed & I can't wait to hear all her stories! Saturday morning seems so far away, and yet I also know it will be here before I can blink.

Riley, Katie and Evie ready for a week at camp!

So this week it's just me and the other three (and Matt, of course) and we'll finish up swim team practice with a final meet for William Friday night, and I'll probably take them to a movie. Feels like we can't have too much fun with Evie gone, but on the other hand, she's having fun on her own so why feel guilty, right? Although as I sit here right now I'm listening to Sarah and Jason and William go about their day bickering and making random noises (why do kids DO that??) & I'm realizing maybe Evie isn't the one causing the chaos here after all....

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Our internet has become craptacularly slow recently, and Verizon can't get a tech out here until Thursday :( It's not too terribly bad downloading, but uploading that one picture above took 10 minutes. The good side to that is, the kids won't be hogging my computer playing Webkinz, but the bad side is anything I want to do takes annoyingly long. Technology - can't live with it, can't live without it :)