lazy summer days

This week Jared and Walker are both at scout camp.  This one is more focused on specific merit badges, and Jared has his group of scouts signed up for absolutely everything he could get away with :).   Their absence leaves me with an oddly quiet house.  We do chores in the mornings, then in the afternoon M and H scatter to their friends' houses, and I hear the echo of their voices outside my windows as they play and run through the neighborhood. 

We started music lessons again today, after a few weeks' break for the end of the school year.  I got up and chivvied my kids along- have a shower, get your breakfast, grab the music, and out the door you go! And I was freezing.  You know, it should be warm outside.  It's almost half-way through June, for heaven's sake!  But Saturday night and Sunday night we were warned to cover our plants because it was supposed to get below freezing.  It did, and we haven't lost anything, but Jared covered all the plants with straw.  I left all the windows open (it's what I do in the summer, because it keeps the house cooler and I don't have to turn on the A/C), and this morning it was 59 degrees F in the house!!!  I had on 2 long-sleeved shirts and some wool socks.  And yes, I could have turned on the heat, but it's JUNE!  I just can't bear to have my heater on in JUNE.  Anyway.  I have the worst cold- sore throat last week, and this week I am using up all the kleenexes in my house.  All by myself!

Tomorrow we go to the library, and also to the doctor's office to get Morgen's stitches removed.  I'm going to count them as they're cut, but I do believe she has at least 15 stitches.  I guess she wanted to be sure she beat her brothers.

Tonight we walked up the street to Scrappy's Timp Freeze for our first summertime meal.  They're a little hamburger joint, open under different managers for over 50 years now, and they have pretty good food.  :) plus you always see somebody you know- benefit of a small town!

Gratitude List:
* blankets. and wool socks.  and fingerless mittens.
* and hot cocoa.
* onion rings
* www.ravelry.com for all the free knitting patterns.  It's an amazing place.
* Morgen's arm is healing well.
* tissues. I am a leaky mess.
* knitting
* God is good.