Anything But Gray

And another week begins.
The weekend was good, nothing major…
I called my sister and we talked for awhile and that's cool. She has been so busy lately that we've barely been talking, so it was nice to get a chance to talk to her for awhile. I talked to Gabby for a bit too and that was really cool. I miss that little girl so much.
I worked on cards yesterday while Zachary washed both of the cars. Jaime spent almost the entire day playing with a little girl (Ella)  that lives in the house behind us. They played over here most of the day and then Jaime went over there for awhile and had dinner there. So weird when your kids start getting big enough to have friends and they occupy themselves. It is such a good feeling to be able to get things done around the house and know your kid still had a good day. I always feel a little bit guilty if I don't spend some actual time with the kids, so it's really, really nice when they are occupied and having fun.

Kim is supposed to be back today so I want to email her and see how her weekend was.

I have so much I want to get done today. I really need to get into the office for at least a little bit and make sure everything is still going smoothly. I can bring Jaime with me and set her up with some school work while I get things done. I've been trying to keep her doing at least a little bit of school work every day. It's not much, but I just want to keep her on track over the summer. 1st grade moves a lot quicker than Kindergarten and I want to give her as much of a head start as I can. So we work on some words from her 1st grade word list and we usually do a page of math and then I have her write in her summer journal. She usually does pretty good. There are days it's a battle and on those days, I usually give her just one little thing and then let her play. I don't want to be a hard ass about it. I want to keep her enjoying it and happy and having a good attitude is more important to me than making sure she does some school work every single day…so on the days she's not happy about doing it, it's fine with me to not do it. I go through the "you can blow this off because it's summer school work but during the school year, you can't do this…"  lecture. And she seems to get it, but we'll see. ha!

I have house cleaning crap to get done, go pick up my contacts, check the mail, go to Joann's, do my banking and budgeting, grocery shop and work out at some point. I might wait to grocery shop until after I pick up Ben from daycare. We'll see how the day goes…

It's a cloudy day and I'm so wishing it wasn't. I was hoping for some sunshine to drive my nice clean truck in!
Oh well….it being cloudy doesn't make the truck any less clean….so I'll live. ha!