Oh what do you do in the summertime.......

when it's a bazillion degrees outside with 42% humidity? Why, throw food at your kids of course!

Princess was begging me for candy and I decided that it would be fun to make a game out of it while teaching them a very important skill. 

How to catch food in your mouth. 

Seriously folks, this is something everybody should know how to do.  They'll thank me someday when they go to a Teppanyaki restaurant and the chef starts tossing meat at them.  They will probably be the only ones at the table that can catch their food.  Then they'll think back fondly on this moment and be so grateful that I taught them this important life skill.

First we started out with marshmallows. 

Then we moved on to jelly belly's.

It may have been more fun for me than it was for them.  Afterwards I poured out some jelly belly's on the table so I could do this blog post uninterrupted.  When they saw/heard the candy, they came like pigs to the trough.

Lunch?  Check!  How do you like the bra in the background?  The Beast took it out of my drawer and proceeded to wear it on his head Weird Science style.

So, what do you do in the summertime?

Best Laid Plans......

"Best laid plans of mice and men often go awry." 

-Robert Burns      

Coloring, everything is a canvas.

I told myself that I was going to blog every day this week.  I found an empty notebook, wrote down all my blog post ideas, and then scheduled a new blog for every day with weekends off.

I started off the week GREAT!  I posted on Monday about some yummy stromboli's that I came up with and then...nothing.

Getting wet

Sure I could blame it on not having any extra time (because I don't), but the truth is that with school being out, I have LOVED not being on a schedule.  So much so, that I couldn't even convince myself to follow the schedule that I set for myself.

I don't have to leave the house, if I don't want to!  I never knew how good that would feel until I spent a good portion of the last nine months picking up, dropping off, and picking up again. 

Drying off

We've been playing, reading books, getting wet, eating, coloring, and playing some more.  I got my kids some comprehensive curriculum books and they've been loving doing "homework". 

We could have been having MORE fun except for the fact that on Monday night, Cy decided it would be interesting to stand on his bed (he sleeps on the top bunk) and pee over the side.  ALL OVER THE ROOM!  Ya, there were some pretty severe punishments, for that little stunt.  No friends, no movies, and no Xoom or Ipod for a week.

Eating.  Carrots and Ketchup, yum!

Sigh....

Me, well I've been enjoying my unscheduled life by exercising, reading, playing with my kids, watching SYTYCD, and OBVIOUSLY not blogging! 

But, I'm back! 

Hopefully......