Summer is a busy time around here! It always feels like it will be a nice break, but it ends up sometimes feeling like more work than when the kids are at school. I think that is partly because there is something nice about the continuity of doing the same routine each day versus the summer where every day is different.
Dylan is gone this week. His b/m is only taking him for 3 weeks this summer instead of the court ordered 5 weeks due to her not being able to afford daycare. I will keep my thoughts on this to myself for now. Long story short, I am supposed to have a full 5 week break from him, only having him 2 weekends during those 5 weeks. Due to this new issue, she is taking him a week on/week off schedule and only for 3 weeks. (Funny how this wasn’t decided until 3 weeks of summer had passed, thus making it impossible for her to do the whole 5 weeks that way, but I digress). I have him signed up for camp for 2 weeks in order to get the 5 weeks I mentally thought I had. He already went one week and will go again in August.
Zach is here this week. He does the week on/week off thing too. Its good to have him and dylan seperate. Gives everyone a break from the little pill 
Of course my 3 babies are here like always.
We have to come up with ways to play without spending a lot of money this summer, because all our money is going to our new house and new things to furnish all the extra room. We have gone to the $3 movies which was really fun, and we take our boat out which only costs us gas money, and we can get 2 full days worth of hard boating, tubing, and wake boarding for 1 tank of gas, which is pretty economic if you ask us! That boat was the best investment we have ever made. Everyone says so too – when they go boat with us – they say “wow, great investment guys, what a great time, best time I have had in a long time, best Sunday ever” and other nice things. It make the 5 or 6 months we make monthly payments on it while it sits in storage worth it.
Ashton is graduating from Wallypogs this week. He had to take last week off due to getting first swimmers ear, and then an inner ear infection on top of the swimmers ear. It was a bad week last week! But he is all cleared up now and we went to the lesson today and holy goodness the kid can float! All alone! And even be flipped backwards in the water and come up on his back! And jump in from the side and get to his back! It is freakin IN-CRED-IBLE!!!!!!!!! GOOOO WALLYPOGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Deborah and Monica are amazing and if anyone wants their information please let me know!
I will post pics later of our summer fun. I also want to try to figure out to upload a video of Ashton at swim school. I have never done it before but I am going to figure it out because it is really fuckin cool to see him get directly to his back like he does after only 3 weeks. It’s awesome!
