Miles earned his first rank advancement in scouts. He got his Bobcat and a few belt loops. Man, he was BEAMING! He felt so proud. I'm incredibly grateful for good scout leaders because I didn't have much to do with him earning any of it!
For a while now, the kids, outside our home, job has been to roll in empty garbage cans for our neighbors for 25 cents per house. After doing that for a while, they added collecting aluminum cans to recycle for money- just from the people on our street. Then they got serious about this idea to build a tree house in our huge globe willow in the backyard. We've wanted to ever since we moved in, I mean the tree is practically begging for a house to be put in it. But it's always been an "unnecessary, extra" expense that we could never bring ourselves to give up. So when the kids asked about it this time, we said we'd build it, if they could earn the money themselves. (Thinking they probably wouldn't get there.) Well, wouldn't you know it? They already have over $250 saved up. All their birthday money, chore money and job money has gone into that jar. They expanded their aluminum can collecting route, and now we take a van load about every 2 weeks and get about $10, plus enough for the kids to buy a soda of their own.
Tanner got his mission call!! Columbus, Ohio!!!!!
This picture just makes me wanna go snuggle up next to him!!
We finally got around to going to see the tulip festival this year, thanks to our pass! It was gorgeous and hot! The kids loved everything about it! Richie and I loved most of it. :) Let's face it, kids can really complicate things. The only time they have to go potty is of course not when you were near the bathrooms and you asked them...it's when you're on the opposite side of the festival. And Lindy is at that age where she's too big for a stroller, but to little to walk for long distances, so we did a lot of shoulder carrying. Unfortunately, we weren't expecting it to be so hot and she was wearing rather warm clothes. She was pretty dehydrated the rest of the day. It got a little scary. She refused to eat the pizza we went out for after the festival, was having trouble cooling down even after more water and baths, her personality was slightly off-including being oddly decisive (?) and then threw up twice throughout the night. I was so happy that she was back to her normal self the next day.
After that incident, I went downstairs and pulled out summer clothes. Miles didn't have any hand-me-downs for this upcoming summer. (We've been so spoiled with clothes for the kids. I rarely have to shop for them!) So Miles and I took off on a quick date to Kid-2-Kid and found 4 new outfits, plus some suspenders and a bow tie I just couldn't pass up. He was so excited about his new outfits and very particular about them.
Then later that night, I took Gwen on a date. She had another meltdown session earlier that week, and was really hard on herself. I'm not sure how to help her through those hard moments. Those really hard parenting moments, when your kid's breaking down and beating themselves up, are not my favorite. I figured some one-on-one time couldn't hurt. I had a coupon for a cupcake at the bakery in Gardener Village, and it just so happens they were having a fairy garden festival Perfect! It was really magical. Gwen was light and happy. We strolled through a linen shop and ooohed and ahhhed over all the soft pillows and blankets. I saw this quote there and liked it enough to take a picture. :) It was hard to pull ourselves away from the beautiful weather, sweets, and magical atmosphere.
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