A Long Busy Summer

It has been another long busy summer for us. I don’t think any summer is quiet and relaxing for us really. It seems there was been something going on every week during June and July this year. In June we had to take my oldest daughter to the pediatric rheumatologist 5 hours away, and the following week had to drive her an hour away for her drug and alcohol awareness class for her drivers license. She had to go to 2 classes, so we had to travel 2 days. Another week there was VBS, and the next week an airplane trip to see my friend. In July all my girls had birthdays, along with my mother and sister-in-law, so it was a party all month! Not to mention, getting the puppy, taking her for shots, much practice of parallel parking for the drivers test, following up blood tests and other tests for my daughter, and a slumber party.

August started out busy, but less busy. We helped a friend pack up to move, and our puppy broke her leg! She was trying to pounce on Teddy, the neighbor’s dog, when she missed and fell off the back porch. The porch is pretty low, but she landed in the right way as to break it. She’s had to go back to the doctor every week for a recheck and rewrap of her bandaged leg. We have to keep her in the house unless she goes potty, when we have to wrap her leg in a Ziplock bag and be sure she’s on the leash. She’s went from 6 lbs when we got her to 20 lbs, so it’s getting harder and harder to carry her up and down the steps. What a trial it’s been dealing with this! She’s doing great, though, and is just as frisky as ever.

In addition to everything, we also homeschool during the summer, except for July, and I’ve had website work to do for clients, so it’s really been busy! September has rolled in kind of quietly. We hope it will remain that way!

By the way, it’s really nice to have another driver in the house. After doing everything for 9 years by myself, the load is getting lighter! What freedom, what joy!