Today was a glorious sunshine-y day, full of blue skies and a nice breeze and cicadas droning out their message of hot. It’s hot. Hot today.

So today the kids ran through the sprinkler,
slid on the slip and slide,
kicked the other sprinkler (It’s a big inflatable ball that shoots water in spouts)
watered the garden,
ate popsicles with abandon,
helped me make meatballs,
ate a metric ton of raw carrots (gerrout of that! I’m cooking those!)
chased each other through the field on their bikes in giant swooping loops
made a small city of roadways and parking garages in the dirt of the driveway,
thundered up and down the stairs in search of things to take outside,
threw a frisbee around,
poked each other with dried fettuccine swords,
helped their dad pile wood,

and *still*

*still*

had enough energy to ask if we could practice hitting the tball before showers.

I live with two energized bunnies.

And I just want to know….where can I get me some of that go juice?

After work today, I sped out and drove down to the library. I had a little bit of time before I had to pick up my daughter, and since I was out of town last week, I needed new reading material.

I walked through the door and breathed deeply of that good library smell.

Wandering around? Sans children?  Sounds like heaven.

On the way in, I spotted two of my favorite librarians. Feeling expansive and happy and sunshine-y, I trilled ‘Hell-LO!’ at them, not realizing how loud I was….

until everyone turned to look.

Nothing like interrupting everyone in their contemplation of good literature.

Oops. 

Whew! Long time no blog!

Sorry about that. It seems summer makes everything get a little busier.

Let’s see – the foster cat? Yeah, she’s ours now. Her name is Lucy, and she eats a lot of cat food(seriously, she’s going to be a round shape with a kitty head and tail soon) and harasses the older cats and purrs a mile a minute when we pick her up.

We just got back from our first summer trip to the beach and soon I have a little vacation all by myself while B and the kids go to a cottage by a lake.

It’ll be my first time spending more than a night away from the kiddles and I’m not really sure how well it’s going to go.

Of course, I’ll be with neat people. And wine. (which-harrumph- might take a bit of the sting out of it)

See you in about a week!