It Has Begun

Serial nonproductivity, laced with bouts of chronic laziness. Summer vacation. Pray for us (me). Actually, I'm (kind of) kidding. After the flurry of projects and activities that inevitably accompany the end of a typical school year, it's nice to have a break. The secret is figuring out how to spend the remaining weeks that follow the initial "honeymoon" period of relative peace and contentment. I'm open to suggestions. This year, we got a bonus week of summer: in an effort to save money, the local school district ended the year a week earlier than usual, leaving the boys to entertain themselves while I finished my final week of classes--until September--on campus. Tomorrow is my last day of Math. Ever. [Cue Handel's Hallelujah Chorus or Beethoven's Ode to Joy. Either would be an appropriate representation of how I feel about that.]

Parker's seminary graduation was a week ago Sunday. I didn't realize until I looked at this picture that Hayden is probably taller than me! When did that happen?!?


















Last Thursday, Parker graduated with honors from Madison High School. Didn't I just go to his Kindergarten graduation? (Don't ask him: he'll say I never went to anything when he was in elementary school. But I've got pictures that prove otherwise.)



















The remodeling project is, um . . . not finished yet. We've (meaning I've) been kind of busy lately, but now that school's out, we (again, I) should be able to wrap things up. Soon. Before fall semester begins. For sure. (I hope.) I'm waiting for my computer desk--which I've ordered four separate times now--to arrive. (It's a long story; call me if you're dying to hear it. :o) The ottoman should be here next week sometime. I've contacted an interior designer to help with hanging pictures (thanks, Darla). If it'll ever warm up and quit raining, I'll get the living room cupboard doors painted and rehung. When that's finished, all that's left is hanging the dining room curtains (they've been shipped), and one last, tiny project: cutting, routing, painting, and hanging new cupboard doors in the dining room. No problem. I've got power tools, and I'm not afraid to use them.