A Golden Summer??

The first week my kids were out of their MDO program I was apprehensive, but happy. It was the first time in a long time I would have both my 3 and 5 year old home with me for an extended period of time without any type of school program to break up the day. The first week we enjoyed lazy mornings, playing in the water on our upstairs deck, playdates with neighbor kids across the street, and a carefree attitude without overplanning and scheduling. I thought with some sentiment how sad it was really that my 5 year old had always been in some sort of preschool program because I didn't think I could handle entertaining her all the time. And now here it is the summer before her first year of "real" school and for the first time I am appreciating that maybe all we needed was an opportunity to have more free time together, to play and explore and enjoy the time.

But that was the first week.

The second week they did Vacation Bible School for half days which sort of took the happy go luck mornings away and made the rest of the day seem like a downer. They were so hyped from the excitement of the morning and didn't know what to do in the afternoons. So I was excited about the 3rd week when we would get back the mornings and hopefully get back the lazy days of summer attitude.

Week 3. My head hurts...

This week we went to the kid free movie event at the theater, went swimming with friends, ate lunch at McDonalds, worked out in the yard, spent countless hours sitting outside so the kids could ride their Barbie car, went shopping and still an air of boredom looms. Oh we also went to the doctor and I'm wondering how many trips to the doctor are ahead of us this summer. I have a hypochondriac and a wannabe. Daughter number one says her "leg hurts" and daughter number 2 says her "foot hurts". So to raise the anti, daughter number one stubs her toe (not sure if it was on purpose or not) and almost breaks it justifying sitting on the house with her leg elevated and asking me every 2 seconds "is it turning purple or black mommy?" and in return daughter number 2 is sitting on the couch this morning with a terrible headache (she is 3) "I think I drank my juice too fast". The doctors visit earlier this week was from a "My ear really, really hurts mommy!!" episode that unfortunately I can neither confirm or deny from an outside view.

Lets hope week 4 is a little less adventurous...