July Encapsulated

 

 

July mostly consisted of just the three of us trying to figure out how
to live life with a reduced family size.

 

 

These four eagerly departed for Colorado early in the month.

 

For a week it was just the three of us.

 

Tiana went to swim lessons and did a great job.

Without fondness I remember the days when she absolutely

could not jump into the pool or relax enough to swim to the teacher.

Thankfully, those days are gone.

 

We froze lots of blueberries.

 

We had a new litter of kittens to entertain us.

 

Tiana tried to improve her Wii Fit age.

(Let's just say that coordination is not one of her strong points!)

 

 

We were treated to beautiful skies when we cleaned the pool.

 

Then on the day two of my teens returned from CO,

we were treated to a long anticipated visit from a cousin and her family.

 

Two days after they departed, these two headed south.



 

 

Then it was just the three of us again.

 

We removed some fencing and she was the only grunt labor available.

 

 

 He didn't have anyone to help him remove the stump either.

 

A well-deserved rest after toiling in the heat.

 

My one bright idea of the month...

 

Turning the problem of razors getting knocked off the rack in the shower...

into a more secure solution.





 



At the end of the month,

Wesley finally made his way home from his extended time in the mid-west.

The next evening the other two returned and brought

two of their cousins along with them.

Then we were no longer three but eight.

This summer has either been feast or famine as far as

family size goes.

 

I found that I hardly knew how to operate with only three of us.

My long established patterns and schedules no long applied.

There wasn't much laundry.

Food consumption was minimal.

The dishwasher did not run daily.

There was no shopping to do.

I was glad the situation was not long term

or I would have needed to branch out into something new.

That realization is not necessarily bad because some day

there will only be the three of us (most of the time)

and it gives me something to think about and plan for.