Summer is here

Summer has officially started for my children.  They celebrated by having sleepovers on Friday night.  It was different with two boys and two girls in the house.  The girls are teenagers--they'll be 16 within days of each other.  The boys are both 11 and that was amusing.  My husband and I spent the evening Friday night listening to the girls giggle, listening to the boys talking and laughing at something.  It was really different.  I'm glad that they had fun.
My son wound up not sleeping very well.  He was up very early yesterday.  He crashed hard on Saturday.  He fell asleep around 4:00 pm and got up at 7:00 this morning.  He has been happily helping out in the kitchen this morning and not complaining about any of it.  

This summer is going to be a little different from past summers.  The kids are both going to be attending a flute camp this year.  It'll be fun because my son is starting into Band in the 6th grade.  He tested out for flute, so will play it.  I need to get over to the music store and find out if we can get the flute I have on order for him BEFORE school starts.  It'll be fun.  They're both going to ride their bikes to the school the camp is being held at.  That'll be a summer experience in and of itself.  My daughter is also going on vacation with a friend's family this year.  She'll be going to Virgina and I think, Pennsylvania.  My son and I are going camping with Boy Scouts in Oklahoma.


Our summer is filled toward the latter part. The first part of the summer will be spent just enjoying time off.  The kids are resting and relaxing. I just wish I could.

Day 5

Sunday we broke down and bought the Wii Active. Since then, I've been using it regularly, as part of my "normal" exercise routine. I feel pretty good about it. I'm not the best at some of the exercises, but they will come to me. They will also help me with my martial arts. Today, for example, I had lunges (oh, ick!) and boxing. The lunges are a necessary evil, I believe, because I need to build the strength in my legs and Master M told me that they were a way to do just that.
I also had some "boxing" today. This is nothing like the rhythmic boxing that the Wii Fit has. This is aiming at actual targets. If you "break" the target, that's good, but if you at least make the attempt to hit it, that's good too. I definitely will have to learn to use my hips as I'm doing the game. It's a good plan of attack because it'll help me improve my kicking skills too. Kicking=use of hips. Boxing=use of hips. See the correlation?

Anyway, this was day 5 of the Wii Active 30 day challenge that I'm doing. I'm pretty pleased. I've managed to keep up with it so far. I'm not getting discouraged. I'm actually laughing because it has "inline skating" that makes you first crouch way down (to gain speed), then JUMP really high. It's to do a "trick", but that depends on when you jump. If you don't jump at the beginning of the ramp, your avatar lands very hard. (If a person landed the way that avatar does, they'd have broken ankles!!)

I'm on vacation now. I won't be at work until the 15th of this month. I don't know what the guys are going to think. I don't know if I'm even going to worry about it. I've stressed out over doing a good job for so long, it's good to just let someone else worry about it. Of course, in the back of my mind is a small "what if they don't do it the way I want it done?", but...I'm not going to let it bother me. I'm going to enjoy myself. We're going to do home stuff and hang out here. We MIGHT go to Houston for a day, just to see Tony's Grandmother and uncle. That is a "might". We could also go to Oklahoma and also to Shreveport. I'm considering all of those things.