Quantity Time Mom

 Summer me is definitely a quantity time mom, not necessarily a quality time mom.

But! I have gotten dressed every day! (In a sweater no less because we had a day in the FIFTIES, which, to me, was heaven-- such a good run, even though I got rained on)

And! We nailed our theme days (I am writing this before Minnie has selected her first FUN FUN FRIDAY option from her paper lunch sack of destiny, but I am pretty sure that was fun, too)

(even though Fridays are work days for me, and I have a pretty intense Fun Fun Teams meeting scheduled for most of my morning)

(also I really hope she pulls "go to the movies" because I need some TOY STORY 5 in my life)

We baked for Make it Monday, went to a park bright an early for New Park Tuesday, stopped by Crumbl on the way to pick up the dive kids for Sweet Treat Wednesday, and signed up for our library reading program on Library Thursday

Normally, Dorothy would be LIVING THE LIFE during her ONE WEEK of summer break not dominated by dance, but she was in a terrible electric scooter accident with (dance) friends last weekend and is resting her horribly bruised (but not broken!!-- she got an xray) knee in advance of Friday's all-day rehearsal calendar. Thank god everyone was wearing helmets. She also has petty bad road rash and may miss the very first day of convention classes at nationals but should be good to go for day 2 of classes and her comp days (doc said stay off of it for a week, and she is taking that seriously-- will plan to ice it in between runs at rehearsal and not go full out). Sooooo she has been spending lots of time working on her novel.

Minnie continues to take her workbooking very seriously. She is working through a rising first grader workbook (spelling, phonics, language arts, and reading), a kindergarten math packet, a rising first grader math packet, and a first grader math packet. Phew!

(If this is what it is like to have kid who does not have ADHD, wow it is a new and wonderful experience)

Summer is the beeeeeest.

Balance?

 This week, I must say the balance is skewing kid-ward, which is only a bummer because next week is TOTALLY kid-centered because it's DANCE NATIONALS (you gotta read that with jazz hands in your heart). Maybe the following week, I can treat myself to a work retreat. (But I won't because kid activities will be in full swing, and my house will be a wreck from the previous week of neglect. Bah humbug).

(Also, I have gone for a run every single day since 9/1, and I am not going to let a pesky weeklong dance comp derail that-- wish me luck)

Dorothy wanted to shop with a friend, but I did not want to just drop her off at the mall, so Minnie and I also hung out there (FAR AWAY from Dorothy and her friend).

(Also even though she literally needs new Lulu Align shorts (Annabel ate them), Dorothy spent her $70 on SKINCARE instead-- which she does not need-- oh to have 13-year-old skin again).

 

No rain, but a rainbow! 

Ugh-- I really wanted to get dressed before I had to start running kids this summer, but it does not always happen...

Make it Monday!

Look at me balancing my s'more cookies with fully prepped salad ingredients!

Minnie has the PERFECT swim lesson time. Right after dive practive and the final 30 mins before the pool opens for open swim. It is going to be hectic keeping this slot with dance drops, but with 2 big bros either at the pool or home, I think we can swing it...

Other things:

Dorothy and I joined a mother-daughter philanthropy league and are excited to meet new friends and volunteer in our community.

Harry turned TWENTY and also got glasses

I am not white dress material.

Graduation weekend!

 JACK JEDD, high school grad!!!

Graduation was at the Kohl Center on campus. a change of venue from Harry's graduation, that we all enjoyed.

Perhaps we should have gotten there earlier to sit a tad coser, but the view from the jumbotron was great!

Random shout ot to Madison public schools!! I bet those letters were a good investment since all 4 major high schools do back-to-back graduations in the same place the ame weekend.

We had plenty of time to wait and get bored despite our bad seats.

Minnie made rainbow loom bracelets with her fingers.

Jack! Graduating!!

We were so excited to spot him while the kids filed in

Socks and sandals

Officially official!

We took many configurations of pictures

And then! A special visitor surprised us at brunch

Brunch was lovely, BTW

We also celebrated on Friday night

And then Ben and Jack drove a carpool of speech kids to O'Hare at 3 am on Sunday so they could catch their flight to DC for SPEECH NATIONALS. Jack is currently living his best life with his speech friends and meting some other incoming Bradley speech freshmen-- he'll be home just in time for me and Dorothy to leave for dance nationals hashtag busy summer.

Minnie's take on the weekend: