Yep, ballgames are over for another year. The team did not do very well as a whole, but our daughter was actually a very good player. ( Something I don't think she would have had the opportunity to show if she'd have stayed on the original team.) And I know she enjoyed it a lot more, which really is the important thing.
So when do you explain the facts of life to your children? We watched a tv show about teens giving up their babies for adoption. I try to keep my kids niave about the world for as long as I can, so my 6yo still thinks babies only come when you are married. So she was very perplexed about how a 15yo could be pregnant. Time to let the real world into her protected life just a little, I guess.
I am looking at all the things I planned to do this summer and realizing that school starts in 4 weeks for my two youngest and the oldest will be back to school in less than 3 weeks. I hate the way summer flies by! So I'd better sit down and make actual plans for those summer plans, or they aren't going to happen.
Our like-a-daughter will be having her baby in August, so I am also trying to find a time when we can head to Kansas to see the new little sweetie. I am sure it will have to be after school starts, so I am trying to find a long weekend that will work to see the baby and my sister's new house. (Do you ever get the longing for something new, too?) Though, at this point in my life I'm not sure I could handle either of those!
So for now I am off to what I do need to handle, laundry and housecleaning....does it ever end?
Trying to keep a house clean is like trying to string beads on a string with no knot in the end.
Cleaning house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk while it is still snowing.
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Take me home from the ballgame...and other random thoughts
Posted by Dawn at 11:11 AM
Labels: being a mom, children, everyday
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We (or I guess I had better say I )had "the talk" with both of our kids when they were about 12. It was a little uncomfortable but so glad that I was the one to fill them in on the "facts". Too many myths get out there for these kids.
I love your phrases about cleaning!
That is about the age we talked with our oldest and our middle girls. But we may have to discuss things sooner with the little one. I hope not!
I looked when I went by your dad's today and he did plant wheat and it is harvesting and ready to bale.
Oops, I meant harvested!
If you should happen to find a way to make laundry and housecleaning end - you will share it with the rest of us, won't you!!
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