Saturday afternoon

Not much going on around here today, expect that we are going to a BBQ for the soccer coaches and their families at the rec. department. I'm curious what type of food they will have there, because my kids can be a bit on the picky side.

Tomorrow we are celebrating my dad's birthday. Have to bake the cake in the morning and do some cleaning. I just can't stand to clean, and that's why I'm pushing it off to the last possible minute. I also have to wrap his gift which really is me just putting into a bag with some tissue paper on top. Not that hard at all. That's what happens during Christmas eve, I still have some gifts to wrap, so I start looking around for bags. Granted they are pretty Christmas themed bags, but it does help me to cheat! err..I mean get done in a timely matter or so the fact that I can go to bed at a reasonable time. The kids to wake up early, and I have to be awake to watch them rip open what I just wrap a few hours earlier!

Enough Christmas, its still summer and this year's summer is extended since we are starting late. In the past my son has gone to school during the first week of August, but since there is construction at three of the elementary schools and high school, school is starting in late August. I don't mind them starting in August, but I prefer the later date. When he started at the beginning of the month, it felt like summer was really beginning! I think that next year they will be going back to their normal calendar and starting early. Not enough time to do anything when you have a short break, but I guess that some kids need to be in school for the structure and discipline.

As I said before, we are heading out to a BBQ tonight. So I need to get ready for it, and get the kids ready.

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