We heard late last night that WDW would be closing Splash Mountain and turning it into a new attraction. This ride is special to Marie, so she drew a commemorative picture.
Then some of my own princesses dragged branches up to the road. Daddy has been trimming trees. More. Yard. Work.
Praise the LORD, the sky is blue and the big girls and I went out for lunch and shopping. Oh – yeah – well – we do have to wear these infernal masks in order to comply with the mandates, but we got to go out and eat and shop.
It is great to be able to do things again.
On one hand, these outings humble me. They help me recognize how many privileges we enjoy in this country, that people around the world can’t even begin to understand. Fast food? Air conditioned department stores? Frozen treats? The things we have lost are truly the extras in life.
On the other hand, these outings make me so angry. How dare our officials manipulate us like this?! They were elected and now they are using data against us. I strongly believe all the parties that be are using the lockdowns to manipulate the election in November. Will they use this fear mongering to push for mail-in voting and are they already tampering with it?
It was fun to be out.
It was sad to see so much product at Kohl’s deeply discounted to move it, and to make up for months of lost sales.
It was sad to see TJMaxx all but empty as they had little product to see.
It was great to see the cloud lift off my girls for a few hours as we laughed our way through life some more.
In the midst of insanity, we were lucid enough to recognize the gorgeous gift this day together was.
Family church.
Swimming.
Huge steaks.
Pie and Texas sheet cake.
A three day weekend found Daddy ramping up the yard work. We normally do the minimum, but we are dialing it up this year (because there is nothing else to do).
This COVID nonsense now has us spending so much time at home that we are spending so much money and time on home improvement.
That said, he’s opted to plant less than usual this year. But he did clean the garden up a lot. I’m working to take nice photos of the yard this year.
Some of the nicest summer weather we’ve had in years. How wonderful that we haven’t been limited to one super hot week last July and then it’s jeans weather again!
It was normal playing, with a sister’s finger at the wrong spot at the wrong time. Katriel got whacked in her eye. She usually a tough little lass, so the fact that she kept mentioning it, and repeatedly asked about making it better didn’t sit quite right with John and I. HOWEVER, having been around this parenting block a little bit, we aren’t that quick to run to the doctor.
But she kept asking.
And I gave in and took her, begrudgingly.
She was so relieved when I buckled her in the car.
She was so quiet on the drive I actually tried to talk her out of needing to go.
But while she said it would be ok if I didn’t want to take her, something about the voice made me realize it was only money and I needed to take her. If she didn’t truly need the visit, so be it. She needed to know Mama believed her.
And she’s smarter than I am.
The corneal tear was gimungo. So large that as the doctor and the EMT shadowing her left the room and went into the hall, they proclaimed loudly, “Did you see the size of that?” “Whoa!”
When we got home she all but fell asleep in my arms. It was stressful for her and humbling for me. Two days and she should be good as new.
Stewart has started two work. Praise the LORD for the provision of jobs for him.
He works Monday through Friday 7AM to 3:30PM at Mendon Ponds Park doing park maintenance. He has added this to the job he started two weeks ago at FedEx as a sorter. That job goes from about 10PM – 1AM. He sleeps in between, and he leaves his stuff lying around for his sisters to mess around with…
His cap and blue light glasses –
And some sunglasses from Houghton.
Marie and Tabitha went to their friends’ house to swim and hang out, and Nan brought the girls and I lunch and we swam.
William joined us! We’ve missed him so much.
I love this weather!
Thank you, God, for the provision of jobs, for sunny days, and for friends who are as ready to LIVE again as we are!
Imagine my delight when I found out about these giant maps on Amazon. For less than $12 we ordered this giant fabric map for the basement. We had to wait 5 weeks for it to arrive (!), but it was worth it. It actually cost more to buy the rings and hooks to hang it…
And this meme made me laugh so hard I couldn’t breathe.
Truth be told there are LOTS of regions on that map that would not be nearly as easy to live in as NY,
BUT there are only one or two states that I would like to live in LESS than NY these days.
We need shoes – please open shoe stores!
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