Last day of summer vacation!

I do not have a Motivational Monday nowadays, due to the fact I did not get any submissions this week. hopefully i'll have one for you subsequent week!

nowadays turned into the closing day of the children' summer season spoil. tomorrow, Noah starts 6th grade, and Eli starts offevolved fourth grade. i've such a lot of recollections of while i was in sixth grade; it's difficult to agree with that my toddler is that age now! I keep in mind spending maximum of 6th grade speakme to boys on the smartphone for HOURS (I never had a boyfriend, but maximum of my buddies had been boys). Noah became excited at open residence whilst he saw that the lady he has a overwhelm on stocks the same teachers as him ;)

Jerry changed into off work nowadays, so we determined to do some thing a laugh with the kids for his or her last day of summer time spoil. First, however, Jerry and that i spent some hours in the storage, cleansing stuff up and getting ready for a garage sale. i've a ton of stuff that I need to cast off, so I spontaneously determined to have a garage sale this Friday. It had been sitting in the storage for a while, so I were given out a bucket of soapy water and started cleansing things off for the sale. Jerry cleaned the storage itself, and it seemed so true whilst we have been performed!

After lunch, we took the boys to Sportway, a place that has mini golf, pass carts, and batting cages. It wasn't genuinely the best day to go, as it was miserably warm! It changed into 92 and really humid, with a "real sense" of one zero one. We commenced with mini golfing.

Jerry and i used to do mini golfing at Sportway while we had been relationship, and i remembered taking a photograph at a specific spot. So we tried to recreate the photograph from reminiscence, after which find the picture when we got domestic. We had been so young then!

I think this was in 2000

next, we did the batting cages. I have been planning to do as a minimum three rounds of pitches, however it turned into so hot that i stopped up simply doing one. I used to play softball whilst i was developing up, and i used to be virtually actually correct. My back hurt today when i was swinging, but I nevertheless controlled to hit all of the pitches.

The children had a new bat that they have been excited to use; but after simply more than one rounds of pitches, they have been prepared to be performed due to the heat. We had been all excited for the cross carts by then, due to the fact the breeze would feel so proper! We had been the only 4 humans the usage of the pass carts, so it became a laugh to have the music all to ourselves. Jerry snagged some pix.

Noah was ahead of the rest of us for most of the way

Jerry's selfie

Eli, looking as cute as ever

And me, trying not to let Jerry pass me, but I was flooring the gas and it was hopeless ;)

no matter the warmth, it was a whole lot of fun to spend the afternoon doing activities with the kids. at the manner home, we stopped to get Slurpees from 7-eleven. i was amazed after I looked up the vitamins information that they are simplest one hundred thirty calories for 16 oz.! I got the smallest cup that available, which appeared smaller than sixteen oz (maybe 12 oz.?), however i am now not sure precisely what length it turned into. i used to be surely excited to look that they had Faygo Rock & Rye as a Slurpee taste!

Faygo is a Michigan brand, and it makes me feel absolutely nostalgic. i will don't forget playing baseball or going swimming with the neighborhood boys and drinking Faygo (typically Redpop or Rock & Rye) at some point of the summer season as a kid. It seemed fitting to have it these days after the hot afternoon we'd had.

when we were given domestic, I made dinner after which the youngsters had baseball exercise at 5:00. Jerry took them to practice, and i decided to get in a bike journey. I rode to the faculty in which the youngsters had exercise, taking a protracted roundabout way to add in some greater miles. It become difficult, because of the heat and due to the fact my quads genuinely felt form of sore from the 30 miles I did remaining week. but it was a nice ride--i love using within the evenings (I hate to run in the evenings, but motorcycle riding is first-rate).

i finished to observe the youngsters practice for a couple of minutes, and i'm glad I did--that they had already under the influence of alcohol their whole water bottles, and it turned into best 35 minutes into exercise! So I grabbed their bottles and rode across the school to the rec center for a refill. fortunately, the rec center changed into open, so I filled the bottles on the drinking fountain and rode back to the youngsters' exercise to drop them off. Then I headed home.

once I left the house to head on the journey, i used to be questioning i'd get in 6-8 miles, however by using taking the long manner there and then going to refill the children' bottles, i stopped up logging 12! At this rate, I don't assume i'll have any hassle getting in 100 miles for September.