Well it has finally happened… after 2 months of ongoing stress my stomach has finally caught up with my racing mind… eating is getting a little hard to stomach. Thank goodness for the breadmaker and basic foods that are easily affordable. Still the ongoing stress is becoming a bit harsh…
On the positive side… the boys are enjoying their school work soon and since we started the PreK curriculum late we were not expecting to start K right in the fall anyway so no having the new one ordered is a minor irritation. Trinity is having a blast exploring everything and anything and popping out occasionally to play in the sun with her brothers. Emanuel is hard at work using the potty… it is our goal to have him out of the pull ups at least during the day by the end of the summer.
We made firework paintings as a family. Very simple… put dots of paint on a piece of paper – thicker paper is better – and then put a lid over top (we used a lid off a bucket from ice cream) and smack it with a hammer! Gavin actually got the best result as the rest of us seemed to not hit the centre of the paint! But it was so much fun! The woman who posted the video for that has a website I need to go through: http://cullensabcs.com/ check her out!
Myself, I have thrown myself fully into cleaning AND stitching a stocking for the 4th Novak boy who I had not gotten around to making one when he was born! (he was born the same year as Emanuel) Stocking patterns are never a simple stitch up in a week sort of thing for me so I am hoping to get a good start on it NOW when the boys are able to be busy out in the backyard in the afternoons so that when fall comes and we move more inside I am able to still complete it in the time allotted.
Ken is working hard on the game he and Ted are programming. While there is not a close end date on that they are working hard and Ken figures by next year may have a nice and rather polished product. Here’s hoping something TERRIFIC comes of all that!!!
Basically one of my greatest frustrations is that this is my summer for saying "no we can’t do that’" – to the kids, to friends, to family… to myself… we are basically grounded here in the city and even then looking to those activities that are free. It is frustrating as honestly I had figured we had gone through this part of our lives already and lived that lesson and done that scary shoestring budgetting… BUT apparently not. Oh well, we have become old pros at it at least! I am just, as is Ken – beyond done… but isn’t that the way life goes???
So things are not peaches and cream or sunshine and roses but we DO have our health and our relationship and our kids… and someday we will look back at this summer and ….. certainly NOT laugh BUT …. be glad we are no longer in the position we are currently facing…. right???