Saturday Afternoon Chat: This summer is too busy

Hello, blog friends!

I have missed you all so much.

I’m not even kidding!

I didn’t take the time I should have last week to sit and read blog posts but I am going to make up for that this week.

I miss finding out what is going on with all of you.

What can I get you today for our Saturday afternoon chat? A cup of tea? A glass of lemonade?

The lemonade or something else cold might be in order, especially as I see how high the temperatures are going to be this upcoming week in our area.

I hate that it is going to be so hot this next week because there is an all-day church camp that I might take Little Miss to next week and neither of us do very well in the heat.

I definitely needed tea as I wrote this post. I thought summer was supposed to be nice and relaxing.

In some ways, it has been but last week it felt like I was in constant motion – if not physically then mentally. Last night The Husband put Newhart on the TV and my cortisol started to drop as soon as I heard the music. I needed that down time.

There was a two-hour church camp at a church in town in the afternoons this past week, which I took Little Miss to. She turned out to be the only child who showed up. I don’t think the organization that hosted the camps will be trying a camp again in this town because this is the second year they’ve only had one or two children. Two years ago, Little Miss and one of her friends attended four days. Last year they didn’t hold it.

I’m beginning to think there are no other children in this town at this point.

Little Miss had a lot of fun playing with the young people who lead the Bible lessons and they will be the same young people helping at the camp next week. The difference with next week’s camp is it will be for six and a half hours. I don’t think Little Miss will want to stay that long but we will go for at least part of the day.

We didn’t attend the summer reading events at the library this week, but we did visit the library and Little Miss chose a stack of books to read. She enjoys picking out books more than interacting with the other children anyhow so it worked out well.

Our last summer reading events will be this upcoming week, which is another reason we won’t be attending the other camp every day.

I want to say that August will be less busy, but I’m afraid to say that and jinx it.

I felt very overwhelmed this week because I was offered the sales job I interviewed for on Monday and had to fill out paperwork in the following days and then begin to watch the training manuals. This will be a job that I will do from home for a small amount of hours each week, but I am nervous. I’ve never worked in sales. Still, this seems like it will be a good opportunity for me to earn some new experiences and hopefully some income down the road.

I’ll share who I’ll be working with once I complete the training and begin the actual job. I’m not sure if I’m supposed to say it yet. I can say it is not Young Living, Amway, DoTerra, or Tupperware *wink*.

I can say it is related to homeschooling.

Speaking of homeschooling, I can’t believe how fast summer is going by. Before I know it I will be planning out homeschooling days again. I’m excited and nervous for this year, mainly because The Boy is going to be a junior and I know we need to start planning for his life after high school.

We have or had an opportunity for him to attend a local trade school for at least his junior year, if not both, but at the last minute the state made some changes to the homeschool law and now it sounds as if that won’t be a possibility. I find this very frustrating since this is a taxpayer-funded school and we pay taxes but even more frustrating has been the lack of communication from our local school district which seems clueless about how to go about the new law change. That’s what is “great” (sarcasm alert) about our state: they like to make law changes and not explain what they really mean and then feel proud of themselves for making rather stupid changes.

Today Little Miss and I plan to head to the pool at my parents’ and then tomorrow we will probably go there again, since I don’t know if we will be there again next week or not with all the events we have going on.

I have to be honest; I don’t like going to a bunch of events in the summer. I like my days to be chilled and relaxed so I don’t feel like summer has rushed me by. That’s why this month hasn’t seemed as fun to me, but we still have August to save it luckily. The ideal summer for me is hanging out at home with a few trips to the pool and evenings in the AC with a good book. For the most part that has happened for us this summer but not last week.

Last weekend Little Miss and I went to the pool and my dad even joined in with us. That’s something he doesn’t do very often so it was a lot of fun for Little Miss to be able to play Marco Polo with Grandpa and show him all her jumps and funny moves.

So as I mentioned above, this upcoming week will be full of events, including a church camp, summer reading, and gymnastics and I’m really hoping for a couple of days of doing nothing, but it doesn’t look like that will happen until maybe Saturday of next week.

How about you? How has your summer been? Super busy? Super relaxed? A mix of both? Let me know in the comments and also let me know what you’re drinking today as you go about your business!