Back to School...

2nd Grade School Supply List:
1 box washable Crayola markers (8 count, thick, classic)
2 boxes Crayola crayons (16 count) 48 #2 pencils, SHARPENED
1 package wide ruled notebook paper (150 sheets)
3 single subject spiral notebooks (wide ruled- red, blue, green)
8 folders with pockets and brads (2 blue, 1 green, 2 yellow, 1 purple, 2 red)
1 bottle Elmer's glue (8 oz)
1 box tissue (175 count)
1 school box (plastic)
3 large Elmer glue sticks
GIRLS: 1 box gallon Ziploc plastic bags
1 pk 3X3 sticky notes
BOYS: 1 box sandwich size Ziploc plastic bag
1 pk 3X5 note cards
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Sniff! He's growing up. Too damned fast. SECOND grade??? He was playing in the sprinklers as a toddler, jumping off the deck with his daddy only yesterday. How did this happen and please stop.

But the start of school does mean we are closer to the time of year I've started fantasizing about during the 100+ degree day delirium. Fall.

Without further ado, here is what I am looking forward to over the next couple of months (in no particular order):

• Football.


• Grilling (when the temp is still 95 at 9PM, it is just too darn hot to grill).


• Fall baseball.


• Boy Pop's 8th Birthday!


• The last few days at the pool and the lake.


• A "high" temperature that doesn't get out of the 90s, possibly 80s.


• Cooler weather.


• Fall food.


• A break from the oppressive heat that drains every ounce of energy from me and turns me into a slug.


• Working out again.


• Planning Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.

So that's just a little bit of what I'm looking forward to in the next month or so. On average, the last 100+ degree day in my part of the world is around September 6th. I think I can make it until then without melting.

Of course, please feel free to remind me how miserable this heat has been when it is January and I'm complaining of the cold.

*Gratuitous shot of my long and lean boy. Did I mention he's almost eight! 8! OMG!

Heat Wave

I've found that the only way to bear the heat we are experiencing is to listen to Marilyn Monroe sing about it. That, and living like a vampire, trying to only leave the comfort of air conditioning early in the morning or late, late at night. Sadly, the vampire-living is more of a dream than a reality, what with having a life, and family, and responsibilities and such. Ice water helps.

What the H.E.L.L?

It is June 30th today. It seems like yesterday I sent a text to one of my friends, telling them to come to the pool and, "Viva June!"

And now we are 1/3 of the way through summer. June has been an extremely busy month, too! Lots of swimming and tae kwon do and family reunions.

Boy Pop spent a week with my parents and Dr Pop and I did not know what to do with ourselves! We ended up not doing a whole heck of a lot, just hanging out and missing our boy.

And, just because it had been ages since Boy Pop had gone and gotten sick, he decided to get the stomach bug from hell.

So this is how we spent most of yesterday... At the ER being treated for dehydration.

Please note that his poor little cat, "Pookie," got dehydrated from his stomach flu, also, and had to get an IV.

All is fine now. We got back home yesterday and today, in that amazing bounce-back way of his, Boy Pop is as right as the rainfall we just received.*

*Considering that we have been going through a 100+ degree heat wave for the past three weeks with virtually zero rain, today's rainfall is extremely "right."