Another Summer Week Gone ...

Summer is flying by! The kids will be in school less than a month from now, hard to believe ... Abby to first grade, TJ to 6th grade!

The weather has been so cool for July, almost fall-like. At least the grass is green instead of its normal mid-summer burn out brown! It has been nice enough to enjoy some time at the boat, but last weekend we did take a break from the normal weekend at the marina and we took in a favorite band playing at a local vineyard on Sat night instead.

TJ had a great birthday and ordered up some long-desired goodies with his birthday cash. So now the loot will all start arriving and it will be like a birthday all over again!

Abby has tumbling today on mommy's summer Wednesday vacation day ... and next week is her last class of the 8 week session. I'd like to enroll her for the fall session but it's always tougher to mix evening activities with school and just your normal busy life, and does she need to be running her legs off at age 6? We'll see what the schedule looks like.

Drew is in the air again this morning, headed for NY and the leadership conference for his fraternity. He'll be home on Sunday, so it's a bit longer than the last trip. His 8 week summer class is almost over, and it will be 3 more college credits down.

We have had a tough go with the pets the past couple of weeks ... losing both our 14 year old cat and our 12 year old dog in a short 11 day period, due to health issues and the need to make difficult decisions for them. It has been tough on us, but we have had some good talks with the kids about the good life our pets had with a family, and they are working through it as best as you can hope they would. But it's still tough.

Next week we will be approaching August!