What...it's Summer!

So, the lack of updates on my blog is pretty evident...you most likely hear crickets when you come to visit here.  I do apologize, but it's Summer Vacation!  I still and will share the events of June.  But just so you know, July has been pretty slow.

I can tell you that our summer has been filled with trips to the beach and playing inside when it rains.  However, (please don't judge, but I think I'm not the only one who thinks this) I can't wait for school to start!  This coming school year all 3 kids will be in school!  As a stay at home mom, I have been looking forward to this for a long time!  I've always believed that once the kids were all back in school I would go back to work.

But I am a teacher by trade, and finding a JOB is not an easy task these days!  You know, budget cuts meant cutting teachers and closing down schools in this area. So, I'll just wait it out.

And although, we're not rich, we are comfortable.  So, I will relish in the fact that I will be able to clean my house and keep it clean for at least the few hours my children will be in school. I am going to enjoy working out and not paying someone to watch my kid or just being able to run without pushing a jogging stroller around!

Now, let me explain one more thing.  I love love love my children!  My children love love love me!  They want to be entertained at all times.  They love to be near me (including bathroom and shower time).  My children want to be near me all the time, even when they fight and  yell at each other!  My friend thinks it's funny that they each have their own room, but they never spend any time in it, because they want to be near me. I can be mean and grouchy, but they will still be by my side.

So, when school begins, I will breathe and stretch and unplug the t.v. and just sit in silence!

Are you like me or just the opposite? 

So much but very little

I often have such great ideas of what I want to write and share about, but then those thoughts seem to disappear and I end up with nothing more to say.

So, for tonight, I will share or give a little update on my Monkey Girl.

She's doing fabulously well!  She's eating and growing and getting stronger every day.  We have completely cut milk from her diet because she just couldn't handle it.  After every bottle of milk, she would spit up/throw up every hour.  And it was the sour spit up.  The doctor put her on Zantac, but it didn't help.  So, after seeking some advise from some great friends, I've taken her off milk completely.  She drinks rice milk 3 times a day.  Because the lack of nutrients and fat, I make sure she gets it in other forms, i.e. olive oil, peanut butter, avocados and such.  I'm trying to get her to drink Juicy Juice new drink with the DHA's in them.  It's not too bad, but she hates to drink anything that is too cold.  So, everything I give her must be warmed!  I will be giving her some other supplements as soon as I order it online.  They aren't anything major, just some fish oil so she gets her Omega's in.

The work is worth it.  I feel like anything and everything I do for her will hopefully be beneficial. So, I've started to incorporate all those healthy habits with Trouble Maker and Drama Queen.  I've been giving them these gummy supplements with Fish Oil.  They're not impressed.  I have to bribe them every time...and I don't blame them.  Just because it looks like candy, it doesn't mean it will taste like candy!

Well, Drama Queen only has a four more days of school and summer break starts!  I'm actually looking forward to summer break.  I can actually wake up in the morning and not have to get anyone off to school.  That sounds so nice.  But, I'm keeping my fingers cross that next school year I'll be getting two off to school.  I signed Trouble Maker up for a free preschool program at Drama Queens school.  So far, he's number 10.  However, the list will be shortened because there will be kids on the list who will actually start kindergarten or have transferred out of the area.   So, please keep your fingers crossed and wish us luck that he gets in!

Well, guess something little became something much more!

How do you all keep your "possible" blog post ideas?  I am forever thinking of something great, and then never post it!