What luck to have stumbled on this youth kayak for the summer. Saw someone at the lake with them in July and immediately ordered two up for our family. They work for everyone in our family except SP but he doesn't seem to mind. William is the only one able to do the also advertised standing paddle deally, the rest of us tip over but it's still fun to try. The best part about these is how easy they are to transport in the big van and that the kids haul them up and down the giant hill to the lake, no problem. I've never had to drag them once, bonus!
And, oh, how these days are coming to a close earlier and earlier. We're evening lake people typically, we often arrive between 7 and 8 and stay till the 9p.m. closing. At this point in the summer though we can feel the rush to the end of the night as the darkness really starts to settle in about 8:50p.m., not pitch black, but dark enough where you know the night's a endin'. Tonight I thought I was snapping one of this season's swans to the left of the pic with our stunning sunset and then, low and behold I spotted it's partner in the cattails when flipping through my pics. See? I'm hoping that when two swan babies swim with their parents until mid-August and then suddenly are gone, that just means they were old enough to want to leave this quiet lake paradise and head over to another one...because they've been missing for the last week...
Anyway, summer is coming to a close sure enough. Today we had school registration for three of the five, delivered school supplies to classrooms and everything, WOW! And then, next Monday...they go back to school!! I think I made it to the latest point in summer before I was tempted to share with them that I might possibly be looking forward to school starting, haha. I think I am quite politically correct in my phrasing and not like the expired, lunatic forty-ish year old mom that I feel like occasionally. You see, it's the teasing, bickering business that by this time of the summer I just can not stand, so today I just might have phrased it something like this, "You see, I really enjoy spending time with you all, and going places and doing things, I like kids, lots of kids, I mean, I was a teacher after all, I was with lots and lots of kids all the time, but, with all this fighting and poking and prodding, it makes me start to feel like it might be a good time for school to start again." I think that perhaps back in like 1910, the mother would not have used nearly as many words to get that point across!
Well, next week little Livia heads off to school until late morning every day (we still have 1/2 day kindergarten, yay!). Life is busy enough that I hardly have time to take in the profundity of it all, I try to consciously soak it all in, enjoy it, savor it but time keeps busting in and zipping things along with new adventures and stages in all these kids' lives. So...yeah...it is sad to send her off, but I'm glad to ease into it with just a 1/2 day and to see what lies ahead for this sometimes sometimes expired, lunatic, forty-ish year old mom!
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