Summer is not over yet. I do realize this. But starting tomorrow morning, we have school-related stuff almost every day until the first day back, August 25th. It's been an odd summer. Let me back track a bit.
On May 26, Larry's dad passed away. We had the funeral June 1. The next couple weeks were a whirlwind of emotions and handling business and just trying to survive. (That's him with Samuel in 2003.)
The first week of June, Savannah began a new job in a local doctor's office. She was 'done' with fast food and the restaurant where she worked was closing for remodeling so she took the chance to look for a new job and found one she loves! She's working in medical records, filing and offering help/support in whatever way she's needed 20 hours a week. It's been a wonderful job for her this summer. The office manager is a friend and said they could be flexible with her schedule when school starts, so they will work around whatever her class schedule requires!
For the first week & a half of June, Sam traveled with my parents to Yellowstone. He loved the destination! All the days in the car were a little boring, but he enjoyed seeing the wildlife and the mountains and the snow when they got there! He took this picture of a moose (elk?) on the side of the road while he was there.
Starting the 2nd week of June, Sam attended a daily boot camp sort of thing for our school's athletes. From 7-9 AM each morning, he sprinted and lifted and jumping-jacked (is that a word?) and jogged and sweated. Obviously, he did not get much of my DNA because he LOVED it. He did this Monday through Thursday for almost all of June & July.
On June 22, my sisters and I hosted my parents' 50th wedding anniversary party. It was a great party with lots of guests. Unbeknownst to everyone, we also hosted a guest with a super-friendly case of head lice that quite a few of us caught....and thus began the epic head lice battle of 2014. Two and a half weeks (and about $450 later), we got rid of the bugs. I'm still paranoid and have the girls check my head at least once a week when I have the tiniest itch on my head. You just don't overcome that fear for a while!
Throughout June and July, Sarah and I did a little local mission work with the church's middle school youth group. It was so fun to watch these 6th-8th graders reach out to kids in the community. Then the third week in July, Sam went on his first mission trip ever with our church's high school youth group. They worked in West Dallas helping with a ministry there called Mercy Street. I helped out with a meal ministry a few times throughout the summer as well.
Larry & I took a short weekend trip to the town where we lived when we first got married and enjoyed re-visiting a lot of the places we knew so well 20 years ago.
Aside from all that, EVERY weekend all summer long, we have traveled to Larry's dad's house to work on preparing it for an estate sale and eventually to sell the house. I've been SO proud of the kids stepping up & helping. We still have a few more months worth of work to be done, but there has been a lot of progress made. I suspect we will be ready to do the estate sale by Christmas, or maybe early Spring. We will probably sell the property next summer, but that's just a guesstimate. It has been both hard work and a process of unwrapping lots of memories. I feel privileged to be able to help Larry do all of it.
Somewhere in all of this busy-ness, summer has just flown by. I keep thinking that things are going to slow down and I will actually pause and enjoy some quiet, peaceful summer time....but at this point I don't think that's going to happen. In some ways, that makes me sad, but it's time to realize that we are moving on & fall is upon us! And while I will miss the relaxing pace of summer, I do look forward to scenes like this one. {Wait....I didn't have a relaxingly-paced summer. ha ha}
Tomorrow morning, Samuel starts football 2-a-days (although it's just once a day, so I'm not sure why people refer to it as "2 a days".) On Tuesday, Savannah and I will visit the junior college where she'll go this fall to buy her parking pass, get her student ID and buy her books for classes. And later this week, I register Sarah for school. One day next week, I register Sam at the high school. (Can we just stop for a second and pause. I said High School. Give me a second while I go cry.)
Oh, and did I mention that Savannah is turning EIGHTEEN this week? I don't know who this kid thinks she is, but I did NOT give her permission to turn into an adult just yet. I'm still reeling that she's gone & grown up on me like this. I still monitor what she watches on TV, y'all. I may suffer a bit of denial in the coming months when I am suddenly knocked out of being able to see medical records without her permission. Mind blowing, folks!
Seriously, I couldn't be more proud of her...and on Wednesday, we shall celebrate with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle cake balls! She's a MAJOR fan.
Between all that, a couple doctor appointments (check ups before school starts) and a week of inservice for me, BLINK....summer's over.
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