...peace and quiet at my house? Really? Fabulous! Patrick's at work, Peyton's at Gracie's and Murph is watching Phineas and Pherb. I am technically ready to head up to bed, but I have a phone full of pix that need a place to live!
I took last Friday off to hang out with the kids - I ran like a crazy woman in the morning trying to get a workout in, get a bunch of stuff taken care of for mom and still make it to the pool by 11:30! We totally did it! The kids had a blast - and it was just them - no friends. They seemed to actually like each other for an entire afternoon! I can't believe we are running out of summer! It sure doesn't feel like it - Friday was our 28th or something day of triple digit heat...it's brutal!
Back-to-School shopping has officially started - in the classic Murphy/Moles fashion - a trip to Old Navy Friday night. Pretty disappointing this year - not nearly the cool stuff from last year - 3 outfits - none of them a "first day of school" possiblity.
Peyton had fun and looks great in everything...but she has developed this desire to have her "first day of school" hairdo sweep completely over one eye...who was that? Rita Hayworth? Lana Turner? who can remember - luckily, she only has the patience for it for about 4 minutes...then it's tucked right back behind her ears and she is on to other things!
So Saturday was Patrick's birthday, but our yard doesn't care about birthdays! Keaton does - so he offered to help out - can't believe he's growing up so fast. I didn't think anything about it when our neighbor started mowing their lawn when he was 11 or 12, but it freaks me out when Keaton is out there...he's too young! what if he gets hurt? he's a bit scatterbrained, like his mother!, so that flies around my brain too!
Jan and Sue went to Indiana/Ohio for his class reunion and we got to watch Sally! She is such a cool dog - and CALM! good heavens! Sophie is a hot mess around her - she wants to play 24 hours a day and she is insistent...poor Sally! Every time we'd let them outside - Sophie would torment Sally to play. She'd bark and chase her and bark some more. She rolled around in the back yard - found every dusty place and scratched and rolled and rooted, all in an effort to get Sally to play...Peyton tried to fluff and brush her, but she just got grayer and dustier and grayer as the day went on.
We also got to "pool sit" at their house - I am a fan of "pool sitting" - having the place all to ourselves. On Sunday it was just Peyton and I - we were having fun until the BEE INVASION...really just one bee...and sometimes just the thought of a bee that created the image of a bee (that was probably a leaf or a fly or a shadow) and the day was ruined for my girl. She couldn't do it anymore - had to dry her off, get her changed and put her in front of their tv. I found the float and got a bit of sun...but it just wasn't the same without her. But still - a pool all to ourselves on a Sunday morning. Keaton and Patrick were at Yard Dawg tryouts - it had the potential to be perfect...that darned BEE!
So after the pool - it was off to get mom. We had clean laundry, mended shirts, prescriptions and a plan for a day-late birthday dinner for Patrick. Pretty fabulous - carnitas in the slow cooker, homemade birthday cherry crisp and vanilla ice cream! YUM!
We cooked again Monday night - here's Peyton working her knife skills on the Caesar salad. It was Murph's first night of Chargers Football Camp, so we thought it would be nice to feed him something hearty and healthy as a reward! She is my best helper in the kitchen!
How funny is this? They just write the boy's last names on their forearms. That's just not a very YMCA thing to do...but it's apparently a football thing to do...cuz it didn't seem to bother anyone else! I think Keaton actually kind of dug it!
Tuesday night was night 2 of football camp and I made a deal with Peyton to drop him off and hit Justice to do some 'sparklier' back to school shopping!
She really is fabulous! We didn't hit the jackpot, but we got 3 very adorable outfits - 2 of which are total contenders for "1st Day of School" outfits!
I know you can't see him - but I know he's out there...this is some kind of defensive drill - he wants to play Left Outside Linebacker...and he's going to try out for Center too since that's what he has always played...but the other 7th graders have shot up around him and he seems tiny with this group!
So, Left Outside Lineback...but also awesome brother...he let Peyton show him every sparkly piece of clothing she got and listen to the stories of what she can wear with what and what else we still need to look for...I love him!
Tuesday was LONG - and hot...and did I mention LONG! I got to bed about 11:30pm and had to be up at 4:30...well, 4:45 by the time I actually rolled out...because today was AST meeting day (formerly RBMM day) and I had a big part PLUS a conference call with Dallas to educate them on YFL...pressure! Then, to top it all off - it was a lunch month...you guessed ice breaker and PotBelly...really? why? and then a couple of phone calls that made me nuts and a really messy desk!
Could have ended badly...but ...
Sophie got her "100 Hairdo" - 100 degrees=shave the dog! She is so much happier! and she got a doggy bandana - how adorable is she? And she made the dregs of the day go away!
I still had to take Peyton to Gracies, Murph to Football Camp, hang the new shower curtain at mom's, switch out her towels...ended up staying to play "Christmas Trivia" with Jimmye and mom and her cronies...fun!, drop off membership cards at Northpark and pick Keaton up from football...but Sophie got a hairdo and all's right with the world...like I said, Patrick's at work, Peyton's at Gracie's and Murph...well...
he loves his momma! and loves flying solo when it's just us. Chick-fil-A, Phineas and Pherb, Century Sundae...who could ask for anything more???
Night!
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