You may be asking what has happened in the last 6 months. A lot. Too much possibly. Baby girl finished up 1st Grade. And Little Mister finished Pre-School. And then Summer hit. And the kids and I packed up the car and left for weeks. Almost a month on the road, 3000+ miles over 12 states, and we got to see a lot of family and friends we have been missing. Not all of them that I would have liked to have seen and I could have really, really used a few more days sitting ocean side. That is my happy place. I would have loved to have been able to sit there listening to the waves crash with my eyes closed, but two kids playing in the ocean with just me watching them means no time to close my eyes.
We played with both sets of grandparents. All of the aunts & uncles and cousins, even the new one we hadn't met yet! Yay for getting to be the favorite aunt! We saw friends in Georgia and North Carolina.
With all the travel, we are glad to be back home. We had about a week and half before VBS started and we are recouping today from the late nights for the past 5 nights. I will say that I will miss the kiddos sleeping in until 8 AM every morning. I wonder how long until they are back to getting up by 6:30. Thankfully, I've been using the automatic brew feature on the coffee pot for the past few months.
What else is going on. We've got about 5ish weeks until school starts back. I've started hoarding crayons. And the ever so hard to find plastic yellow pocket folder. Yes, the school lists are that specific.
Some may be asking, if you don't know already, what I have decided to do with my time. Well, Eric supported my decision to start selling Pampered Chef. We talked about it and did some research. TPC is celebrating 35 years this year so it isn't going anywhere and it has an excellent record so far. My Director & Team Leader only lives a little over a mile from me so I've got the company support I need. I've had a great first 3 months and month #4 is looking good too! With the new catalog coming out in September, I have a line of shows just waiting on the new products. I started this because I really wanted a few of the more expensive products and thought why not get them at a discount and help others get them too!
On top of that, I will be returning to MOPS this fall as the MOPPET Worker Coordinator as more of a service. I'm not actually joining MOPS, just helping out and filling in with the kids as needed. I know this is a big area with most MOPS that is hard to fill.
So add those with our weekly women's Bible Study, weekly Small Group, Fall sports,and helping out with school activities and I should be "busy". Little Mister says I can play video games all day and Baby Girl says I need to catch up on housework. We'll see how many video games I actually get to. And if I get the kitchen chair covers finished this year.
