End of June

In the past week I have not done much of anything, except for maybe laundry which is a never ending process around here. Last week my oldest son was going to Boy Scout Camp and had to be picked dropped off and picked up everyday. For some reason the boys his age were not allowed to camp out over night with the rest of the boys. So that was fun, we had to have him at the camp by 7 in the morning and picked up at 9 in the evening. The rest of my kids spent the week mostly vegging in front of the television. This week they dont get to watch as much television.

My husband left at 5 this morning for the airport to go on a TDY for work. He is traveling to California for the week to perform an evaluation. He will get home sometime Thursday eveing. So this week it is just me and the kids. Our plans are to get the house ready for company to staying with us next week. Plus to get a little extra learning and educational fun in.

We did go to the library last week and already need to go back for more books since everyone has zipped through the books they got. So I have to get some leaves made up for our reading tree. As soon as I get the leaves made our tree will have thirteen leaves. I am so excited that the kids asked to have the reading tree. I recorded a few educational shows on the history of the United States for them to watch. They may be watching two each week for the rest of summer. I have flash card to work with my younger kids on numbers and sight words. Work sheets for speach to help one of my sons. Oh and my husband wants me to get my oldest to learn the Constitution. She has complained about it since he told us he wants her to learn it so not sure how to make that fun for her, and me.

Next week we have company from California visiting. Still do not know the whole plan of when they might get here or how many days they are staying. I was told we should find that all out on Wednesday when they email us their plans. As of last night I am starting to wonder how many people are coming. From our conversations it sounded like our friend, her husband and their two kids. When I talked with our friend last night it sounded like there might be two other people coming as well. They would be her sister and her sisters husband if there are other people coming. So now I need to find that out for sure or not or if her math was just off last night.

Anyways once I find out how many people are coming out to stay with us and if they will be here for the Forth of July weekend I can start planning my shopping trip for food for our get together. My husband has invited two families to have a BBQ at our place. One family has two kids and the other has four or five. So I will also have to figure out stuff for the kids to do incase of weather. The last time we had planned on a BBQ I was glad I had indoor things plan for bad weather since it rained on us at the last minute. Which also reminds me my kids wanted me to ask my husband if we could invite that family over for the Forth too. That would add another six kids. Didn't mention that one of my brother-in-laws called the other day to ask if we could pick him up for the Forth also. He is in Florida at tech school so it is about three hours to get to where he is from our place. Besides it being a long drive we might already have company that could still be here. I don't mind having a full house but it makes it a little harder to go and get him. So that is still in the works there. I think my husband is starting to lean to a no on his brother visiting if he has to get picked up because of that. We will just have to fit in a visit with him again soon though if he doesn't come up then. He only has about six more weeks before he is done and off to his first base. He is going to Japan, not like we will see him much while he is there.

Hard to believe that we are already planning for the Forth of July. The month of June should not be almost over yet. I guess it seems like it is passing so fast because this year I have had two kids that each got to go to camp of some sort for a week or so. I just know that after the the Forth of July weekend I have to start the back to school shopping. My kids will only have a month of summer break left before school starts from that point.