Isaac-isms

These are all from today: "Mom can we stop on the way home from church and get a cool drink?" "No hunny, we don't do the drive through on Sundays." "DON'T YOU LOVE ME!?!" "Mom, the Holy Ghost is talking to me." "Oh, what's he--" "SHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! The Holy Ghost speaks very quietly!!!!" **After two minutes of silence** "He says, keep the commandments."

What I'm Up To

Life is good... seriously.... I freakin LOVE summer vacation. Crossing things off the to-do list Kind of mundane but now I finally have time to cross things that have been lingering on the to-do list forever. Things like seeing the doctor about the excema patch I've had on my eyelid for like six months. It's great to get my life a little more organized. Also some fun things too. Isaac and I took a trip down to the beach which was lovely. Hopefully we can squeeze in at least a few more day trips there, plus our big trip as a family in August. Summer School Easy breezy. The kids aren't too bad, the day goes fast, and I like to think they are having fun. I'm putting a lot of effort into trying to make it exciting and not just worksheets and flashcards all day. The kids who were such pickles during the year aren't a part of summer school, so that helps as well. I just turned in my time sheet yesterday and can't wait for my next paycheck with the extra cash. Maybe then I can finally afford get some paint up on the remaining walls. Walking My friend Kim and I are on a big walking kick. I figure, if I'm only working 8 hours a week, there is no reason why I can't get serious about excercising this summer. We have been walking along the River Trail. The past two days we did about 4.6 miles. Yesterday, due to the heat wave we are in the middle of, I totally tried to bail. I mean, I figure the fact that it is literally 105 degrees outside should be reason enough to skip. She insisted we still go and we were about a half a mile into our walk when it began to POUR with crazy lightning and wind. I seriously felt as if I were drowning! The crazy part was the amount of steam that was coming up off the sidewalks. It's that hot here. When it was all said and done our fronts were 100% soaked but our backs and bottoms were nearly dry. This was useful since we had to get back in the car and drive home. Anyways, afterwards I saw that power had gone out all over the place, it had hailed in many places near the city, trees were down all over and that some people had suffered property damage. Sheesh. Wedding Season So I went to this lovely bridal shower for my friend from Pitt Nicole. She was my randomly assigned freshman year roommate and we ended up living together all throughout college. She is from Lancaster, which is where my parents live now. Anyways, my friends (also girls I lived with at various points) showed up and it was the first time I had seen them since the Pitt days over seven (!!!!!!) years ago. Let me see if I can wrestle up a before picture.

Here was the picture we took at El Serrano:

It's wierd cause on the one hand college doesn't seem that long ago but on the other hand I have a five year old. Unreal. Oh and while we were there Nicole gave her bridesmaids their dresses. It is the EXACT same dress in the exact same color as my bridesmaids dress for my sister's wedding. It's a good thing I saw them because it had sort of been my plan to wear the dress to Nicole's wedding (it's more like a party dress). How awkward would that have been to be wearing the same dress as all of the bridal party????

Anyways, that's all for now. How is summer treating you?

Affirmation of the Week

"Where I am right now is perfect".

Common - Finding Forever

Why are you so petrified of silence? Here, can you handle this...

• I feel (somewhat) bad complaining again, but...
• Isaac's dad needs to hurry up and get back in the country and let me get out of this freakin house on a Friday night.
• Cause this he-takes-Isaac-for-literally-one-hour-in-June thing isn't working for me.
• I guess I shouldn't really complain. I have had several of my friends and (of course) my mom offer to take Isaac for me. But it's not about that.
• I don't want him with a sitter.
• I want him with his other parent.
• Anyways, I could go off on that tangent forever.
• In case I haven't told you, Isaac's dad is in South Africa for the World Cup. My coworker pointed out that I bring up the fact that he is there all the time. But seriously I have serious envy. (Did my using the "serious" twice in one sentence drive home the seriousness of the situation? Because it is serious. Seriously.)
• Anyways, he is off shirking parental responsibilities and galavanting around South Africa on his uncle's dime and I am stuck here on a Friday night scrubbing orange juice stains out of the hallway carpet.
• Wow... welcome to my life. Good thing I keep a blog to make myself feel fascinating.
• So I got a summer report for a new kindergartener in the fall.
• (I am writing IEPs for extra cash this summer. And because I can rock an IEP if I do say so myself and would rather have them show up written correctly in the first place than show up on my desk with a big post-it on it in the fall that says "Lisa, this needs to be done ASAP"... but anyways...)
• The report always lists a students strengths and weaknesses.
• This report lists (among other things) being strong willed as a weakness.
• Now, I have worked with PLENTY of strong willed kids with autism over the past seven years and I totally get how that can lead to behavior problems or otherwise thwart a teacher's best teaching efforts.
• But, as someone who is terrifically stubborn myself, I like to think that strong will could also be a strength.
• Anyways, now I'm just babbling.
• I woke up this morning around seven to Isaac crawling in bed next to me.
• We both woke up again around nine which was HEAVENLY.
• Since yesterday I was wide eyed and bushy tailed at seven am.
• I don't care what some people say about co-sleeping.
• I love (occasionally) waking up to a little sleeping face snuggling up to me.
• So school is out for summer. I'm working 8 hours a week of summer school and writing the occasional IEP so I am keeping somewhat busy.
• I need to keep my days structured and busy or I start to lose my mind.
• As much as I get stressed out by being spread too thin during the school year I go too insane when there is no school work and it's just me sitting inside these four walls all day.
• I've said it before and I will say it again, I could never be a stay at home housewife.
• Not that I would want to work 40 (plus) hours a week if I didn't have to.
• But nothing but children's TV and laundry and dishes makes my brain feel as though it is turning into mush.
• I think I would go into a serious depression.
• Anyways, to celebrate summer Isaac and I trekked out to Ocean City yesterday and had a great time.
• More than once he said "This was such a great day mom!".
• And it really was.
• It's fun now that he is old enough to travel longer distances without a lot of drama. I'm trying to think of some other day trips for us to hit this summer.
• My bridesmaid dress is officially in. I need to go pick up my frothy canary number and probably have it altered.

That's all I got for now... good night!

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This post was amazing!

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