Band Camp...HOT HOT HOT

Summer is winding down.  I hate that.  I hate the idea of going back to work.  It is funny because we really have not done much this summer.  The kids attended summer school and I worked summer school.  We have gone to the movies, gone bowling, hung out and have gone swimming.  I have refinished an entire kitchen, made curtains and window treatments.  I am almost finished stripping and refinishing a kitchen table. Lots of outside work has been completed.  But that is about it.

It is hard when your kids get older and are not so interested in the zoo or the Magic house or Grant's farm.
We are a pale family, so we are not sun worshipers...we don't hang out by the pool (or we would all be lobsters).   I guess that is just what happens when you do so much when they are little.... it looses it's charm.

BUT now school is right around the corner.  Emily has started Band Camp.  I am the band mom... so I have been busy, busy, busy helping with camp and beginning of the year band stuff.  People laugh or tease about "band camp"... but let me tell you what.  These kids are amazing . And they are athletes in their own right.  Emily has been at the high school every day at 7am and is outside in the sun and heat for SIX hours straight.

These kids march, learn their music as well as their "marks on the field". They march to a set routine, reset and do it all over again.   Over and over again. tweeking it, fixing things and moving on.  

I have a lot of respect for these kids.  I know they don't get recognized as athletes.... but they should. They put in just as much time and effort as any other sport.   I applaud them.

Jake has been....hanging out.  Isn't that what 14 year old boys do?  He sleeps .,.... A LOT.   He is a sleepy kid.  I think he is growing again.   He also plays VIDEO Games and watches tv and you tube.
I would share a photo... but honestly I have not taken pictures of him sleeping or watching tv.  HAHAHA.


That is it for now.  That is all I have to share.  Nothing exciting, nothing else.