All last week my kids were sick. We cancelled school, they spent their days in front of the television while I cleaned up after them and force fed them Popsicles. We didn’t get out much.
Today, with everyone well, we tried to cram as much sunshine as we could into one day and decided to spend the afternoon (after a few lessons) at the pond. I got everyone hauled over there including the puppy, snacks, fishing poles, lawn chairs, my 4 kids + one extra friend, and I left them all in the care of my cousin while I took Hazel to the vet for shots. My 3 year old went with me. When we got there we discovered we had arrived with only one boot. Where the other one disappeared to we may never know. She is the queen of one shoe. It is rare to find a pair of shoes in her closet that match.
After the vet, we met them back at the pond. I set Tess up to fish, this time with a hook. I put her in her lawn chair and sat back to enjoy the sunshine. My enjoyment was brief because in the next minute she was tumbling over in her lawn chair into the pond. I fished her out and calmed her down and back home we went to change clothes. The challenge, of course, was finding a complete pair of shoes since she had now soaked her back up pair of boots.
Now that she was in clean clothes, I decided to take a few pictures. It’s been a while since we’ve done this. Besides, she didn’t want to get back near the pond.
As we got ready to go we discovered my son had locked the van doors with the keys inside! We had to catch a ride back to the house and hope I could find the spare key.
You’ll be relieved to know that after all that I at least had the good sense to put a roast in the crock pot that morning. We came home to dinner practically done, which was a good thing because after a day like that there’s not much chance I’d have energy left over for thinking up a meal.
Feels like we’re finally back to normal around here.
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