My Public Admission(s)

I am going to publically acknowledge that I have been a poor blogger this spring/summer.

It is not that I have finally ran out of things to say {like that could ever happen!}. Or that my life has gone bland {we are still spicing it up over here!}. Or that health concerns still do not impact me {in fact, a dear friend of mine is facing one now}.

The truth of the matter is, I will formally admit, I have finally spread myself too thin. There Husband. I have formally admitted that I have a problem. I. Take.On. Too. Much!

I have always wanted my kids to be involved in what I call "pro-social" activities. They are the type of activites you want your kids involved with (organized sports, dance, 4-H, piano lessons, book clubs, cheer, science club, chess club, ect.) as oppossed to those activities you do not want your kids invovled with (reckless behavior like drinking, drugs, non-stop video gaming, sleeping all day, sex, criminal activity, ect).

When we just had The Boy, it was pretty easy. We did one sport at a time and then moved on to the next one. The Short Chic has been too young for much but we were pretty good at limiting them to one thing at a time. I use to wonder how people with multipe kids juggled it all.

Until this spring. And the flood gates opened! The Boy played spring baseball on a rec league. He played basketball with a rec league, and then still did high school basketball off-season conditioning. The Short Chic was in dance, gymanstics, for the first time ever t-ball, private swim lessons, and the grand-daddy of them all Kindergarten Summer School!

The Husband and I found ourselves somewhere with one or both kids every single night of the week except one. It seems that since we made it home from Disneyworld in March we have been meeting ourselves coming and going. Of course, it was not all about the kids either. I took a road trip in May with Miss Medical Student.

We have camped twice already this summer, we have been working on the Twinkie, gave up and bought a pop-up camper, went on a Float Trip, made several trips to my mother's, attended two family reunions, and got a new roof put on the house.

In addition, I know have offically one month until my huge keynote presentation at work. All of my energy for writing has been zapped up in writing this presentation. Can I say, that I will be relieved when it is over.

Maybe things are slowing down. We certaintly have more free nights at home. Hopefully I can interact with you all a little more! Thanks for your understanding!

My Weekend Project: A PVC Camping Lamp Post and Flag Holder

I have seen a few of these around campsites and I knew I would like to have one. The only problem that I had is The Husband. He already thinks we drag too much stuff with us when we go camping and if I had told him my desire to have a PVC Camping Light Pole he would have shut it down quickly! So, that leaves a girl with only one choice: Figure out how to do it by herself. I did some internet searching and found a few road maps on RV forums. They seemed easy enough! I visited the local hardware store for the supplies: An exterior post lantern light 2 inch PVC pipe (I used 5 feet but had to purchase a 10 foot piece) A 3 inch toilet flange A 3 inch to 2 inch Reducer PVC Glue A 12 foot electric cord kit 2 - 3/4 inch PVC Caps I also used a few supplies we already had on hand: White Spray Paint 3 1/2 foot - 3/4 inch PVC Pipe Drill Bits (1 inch and 1/2 inch) Tent Stakes The first step was preparing the lantern light. I could only find black i...

Liver Cheese: A Family Tradition

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Tonsillectomy (Warning Photos!)

The Short Chic came down with a pretty nasty case of strep throat back in April. So, when The Boy started complaining about his throat hurting about 12 days later, I was pretty confident that he had inherited his sister's strep. Instead, The Boy was diagnosed with a peritonsillar abscess growing on his right tonsil. We had to immediately see an ENT Physician who took a needle and drained the abscess. He removed about 5.5 cc of puss from The Boys throat.and then told us that once you have a peritonsillar abscess you were high risk to keep getting them. The Boy's tonsils were now compromised and needed to be removed. We were told to plan for a two week recovery so we worked a surgery into our summer plans. Between family vacations, summer sports, and the beginning of school The Boy had his second surgery. A tonsillectomy. Pre-surgery prepping went well. It must be nice to be young and have healthy veins for an IV! The Boy had lots of pre-surgery vi...

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