I know I've been gone for a while. Life just suddenly got crazy. It wasn't just that, though. I think as life got crazy and chaotic, I just got very still on the inside. One could, I suppose, debate the merits of that. "Oh, it's good to be quiet on the inside sometimes blah blah blah". But really, I feel like I am on the other side of a big, triple-paned glass window watching my life happen to me. I am feeling a little detached. Not unhappy, just... seperate somehow.
Mentally ill? you ask. Yes, probably so. But who wouldn't be. If you made rats live like this, they would chew their own legs off, claw their eyes out or perform some other equally violent and melodramatic self-mutilation.
The end of school has arrived. Anyone out there with children should understand the panic that this can illicit in a stay-at-home mom who hasn't had the foresight, or, uh, the preparedness, energy, will.. whatever... to arrange a summer full of camps and activities to occupy the kids.
That's right, y'all, aside from the two weeks when the girls are at sleep-away camp(Avery one week, Vi the next so that they can have some one-on-one time)... it's just me and the girls and a long, hot summer ahead.
Thank goodness for the pool, is all I can say.
The past two weeks have been up and down emotionally for me. Overall, I've been feeling good.
We had a fly-up ceremony for Viola's Girl Scout troop and that was fun to attend. Kim held it at her house and she was an impeccable hostess, as always. She rented one of those big, blow-up water slides which was a blast for the girls. Everyone brought food and Kim's yard looked beautiful with all the flowers blooming, so it was a great place to hang out for the afternoon. Robin did a fantastic job with the ceremony, tying in her family's recent trip to one of the NASA flight control operations for the space shuttle- listing off all the jobs and their acronyms and relating them back to all the things we have to do for the girl scouts and how the girls will take over many of those jobs as Juniors next year. The girls also got to eat a brownie and junior mints as part of the ceremony and 'blast off' from a trampoline signifying their flying up to juniors.
Avery graduated from Kindergarten and sang a solo part in the ceremony. She was awesome- but of course she is terribly embarassed by the video so I am debating about putting it up.
The picture is of Avery with her friend Troy at their graduation. I love the expression on her face as it is just so Avery.
Viola had her last day at school today and brought home some beautiful artwork she's done. I am going to photograph it and put it up because it is really beautiful. The originals, I'm going to frame and put up on the wall.
I've been sick as a dog this week with some kind of respiratory crud. My iron is getting low again as the old craving for ice has crept up on me again. I sort of thought since I wasn't getting my period regularly that maybe I wouldn't get as anemic as quickly. Then, the other night I'd taken some ibuprofen because I was getting chills and thought I might have a fever coming on and tylenol just does nada for me. Anyhow, just a bit later I was doubled up with my stomach killing me. I think my old friend the Ulcer is back. Round and round I go. So, in addition to year-end craziness... my body is staging its own coup.
Um. What else. I've been reading like a madwoman. Can't seem to keep my nose out of a book. I simply cannot let all these books pile up so here is my plan to reinvigorate the blog a bit... I am going to post my Amazon reviews to my blog and I will note if I am going to pass the book along. If you want the book, leave a comment and I will send the book on to you(you will also have to e-mail me your address)... sorry, I will also need to limit this to those I can send media mail within the U.S..
That's all for now. Mwah.
nice to hear what's happening with you. Hope you feel better. Here's to summer. And reading. I'm a big reader. Beams.
Posted by: melissa cole | Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 03:29 PM