Other days, it feels like life is in slow motion and all I'm waiting for is the day to go by faster.
I don't know which days I look forward to more.
This summer has been incredible. I can't believe that in just a week, the kids will be back in school. Grady even starts next week, but only for a day. The following week, we're looking at all three kiddos in school, the older two full time and Grady in the afternoons. I'm so excited for him! He's going to have a lot of fun, I'm sure. He even already has two kids in the class he knows! My highest hopes is that he will have three friends, if his friend Alex joins the pre kindergarten class, provided there is still space for him. It will be good for both of them.
So, I suppose I could update my readers on my summer. In a word, it was awesome. Busy, so so SO busy, but incredible.
I'm taking care of two other kids daily. This has been a lot of fun. Grady has his friend who is his age, and then Olivia has hers. The family is super and the kids are almost always easy to deal with. Of course, some days aren't easy, and they are always busy with five kids, but all in all, it's kept me busy and on track for the summer. Normally by this point, I'm ready to just pull my hair out and run screaming naked down the street. This summer, it isn't nearly so bad, because with the two extra kiddos, I have to get up in the mornings at a reasonable time and my schedule and routine isn't in the same limbo it usually is in the summer. There were some adjustments, getting used to new kids in the house on a regular basis, but these two kids are good and fairly easy to cope with. There are the usual spats between every kid, one kid tattling (I could totally do without tattling...) or two kids leaving another kid out. There have been tears and few falling outs, but they always come back to being friends the next day. Even the next hour. Thank Heavens kids are so adaptable.
In the midst of taking care of these two kids, we've managed to get a lot of time out to the parks, grocery shopping, even went to the Fringe for a short time. The Fringe was ill planned, but a lesson all the same. It was incredibly hot and humid. I should have waited for a different day.
In July, we were able to take off almost two weeks, which we spent in Canmore. The first week was just chilling in Canmore, hiking, touring, relaxing. It was great. The last few days were spent at the 24 Hours of Adrenaline race that Jeff and one of our friends love to do. We had a great team, really good guys and it was fun. Except for Jeff's accident that resulted in a concussion. That wasn't so fun. But we got past that, our team still did well, qualifying even with that concussion. Jeff is a freaking machine. Takes a huge hit, bleeding from the mouth, gets back on his bike and does the entire race. He was pretty wiped out after that, and we spent some time in the Emergency Department in Canmore's hospital. The staff there were marvelous, the doctor was amazing and they had him in and out within three hours.
We came home, then life went back to "normal". We were able to spend some time out at Spring Lake with my mother in law and the kids. (Yes, I took all five) We had a blast. We all got to swim, take in a little sun, build castles and just chill out for the afternoon. I went out there a total of four times, to swap kids back and forth, and man, the next week I was blitzed. It was intense.
Otherwise, we just follow the routine, keep busy and the kids play while I do my cooking and cleaning. Or I do some time on the internet. Whatever catches my fancy.
Logan and I went to the Learning and Development Clinic at the hospital near us, and I was super impressed with the doctors and therapists there. It will be a good experience for us and give us some help in the ADHD with regards to Logan. The doctor gave me lots of good resources, some of which I will share on a future post.
So...that`s the summer as it has been. I plan to get back to blogging regularly again. I already have a few ideas, like how interesting it is being a parent with ADHD who is now parenting at least one child with ADHD. There`s a distinct possibility that I probably have two with ADHD, maybe even three. But we will cross those bridges when we come to them.
In the meantime, excuse me while I go tend to my daughter. She bashed her face on her bed and now has a nasty bump on the bridge of her nose. I think we might see some bruising soon. Poor kid.
One thing that never changes? How accident prone my family is. At least that's predictable.
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