Summertime...and the living is BUSY

I thought that summertime was supposed to be relaxed....
as in:
Sit by the pool.

Read a book (well, I do that every day year-round...does that mean I relax year-round? some of my family would agree)

Enjoy popsicles

Sleep in

Get along joyously with children who are joyous about being out of school

Enjoy wearing lighter, breezier styles of clothing meant to show off parts of the body kept warm in sweaters and jeans the rest of the year.

Instead, I have never been busier.
Going backwards on my list, I do not enjoy the lighter, breezier styles of clothing that show off my white legs and relief society arm flaps. In fact, I spend alot of time trying to cleverly conceal above body parts while not looking (nor feeling) like an eskimo in the depths of winter.

My children are joyous about being out of school but not as joyous about the chores/activities/errands I have planned for them! Love teenagers, but......

Due to my new exercise regimen (walking 3 miles 1, 2, or 3 times a week) at 8:30am (which is early rising for me) I am getting up earlier than during the school year. The other two days I wake up early to worry about not sleeping through the "time to walk" alarm the next day. Wrong, I know.

Forgot to buy the popsicles. Bought oreos instead. That does not go well with either the exercise regimen or the relief society arm flaps. But yummy.

Can't sit by the pool because I lost the pool pass to the neighborhood pool and it's $25 to replace. I lose it every year. I end up replacing it every year two weeks before the pool closes. Then I promptly lose it before the next season starts.

Besides that, I knelt on a sewing pin and it poked into my knee, our car needed $4,000 of repairs before the trek west, the computer dies and then miraculously revives, I have made 4 books with the coptic binding shown in the previous post, and I have spent numerous days saving our sweet dog Kalla from a bully in the neighborhood (a bird...more on that and pictures someday soon!)

Hope your summertime living is easy!