The other day I had the opportunity to speak to my son’s grade 4 teacher. She informed me that he is a wonderful student and very bright. But she is having a very serious problem with him right now. He NEVER stops talking. She actually asked me if he ever stops talking at home and I had to tell her no, he never does. This kid even talks in his sleep. She was laughing about it because she has never (in all her years of teaching) experienced this kind of thing. She speaks to him on a daily basis about it. But in all honesty I don’t think he can help himself. He tries to be quite, he just can’t. But other than that he is doing wonderfully in her class. Hopefully he can control is talking a little bit better. But, if that’s the worst thing he is doing, then I really don’t think he’s doing that bad.

As you all know my little girl is now 11 and goes to middle school. I thought she was way…. to young to be going to junior high, but what I found out yesterday has me absolutely terrified. Apparently she now has a boyfriend!! Yikes!! This kid is way to young to be talking about boyfriends. And the most terrifying thing. This boy likes her too. Yes I know it’s nothing real serious at this point, but it sure has me thinking about things to come. Man…. am I getting old!

Today is the day that my daughter gets her school picture taken. My son had his taken earlier this month. One of the reasons why I’m quite pleased about this is because this will be her first school picture of middle school. She has grown up so much this past year that she now looks like a young lady. Because the school takes digital photos now, I will be able to see the proofs today. I can’t wait until she gets home from school to see what type of picture we will be hanging on our wall this year. Her brother’s pictures turned out wonderfully and I’m really hoping that hers will too. I’ll let you all know.

Although this summer was pretty crappy weather wise, we were still able to do a few things with the children. One thing that we did with them that impressed them quite a bit was we took them to the zoo. They had a great time looking at the animals and pretending to act like them. Their favorite of course was the monkeys and my youngest son spent the better part of the day acting like one. We try to take them to the zoo every summer. And even though they have seen these animals many, many times, they still enjoy going to zoo and seeing all the animals. Maybe next year we will be able to take them to a different one.

Wow I can’t believe there is only two weeks until school gets back in. And…. I am so not ready for this. I have so much to do I really have no clue where to start. I need to purchase the rest of the kid’s school supplies and clothes. Then I need to label every item we are going to send with them. If I don’t get a move on, the next two weeks will fly by and I will still be complaining of a lot to do. Hopefully this weekend we can finish up on the shopping and then next week I will have time to label everything.

The kids will be back in school in less than four weeks and to say that I’m not ready for this big day is a huge understatement. My daughter will be headed off to middle school (grade 6) and my son will be back at his elementary school (grade 4). And I have nothing bought. I mean, not even a pencil. I have my son’s school list but not my daughter’s. But I pretty much can guess what she is going to need. So this weekend my husband and I will be going out to do some shopping. I realize I have four weeks to do this, but time keeps marching on.

To say my son was not impressed with life this weekend, would be a mild understatement. On Friday his grandfather was supposed to drop by with his and his sister’s birthday cards. Well he didn’t and didn’t even call him to say he wasn’t coming. Then we were unable to go camping this weekend. Not because of the weather this time, but because his sister was sick the entire weekend. And finally his older brother was supposed to come home for a visit. Well he didn’t and also didn’t call or e-mail to say he wasn’t coming or the reasons why. So my little fellow had quite a few disappointments this weekend. We did try to make it up to him, but you could tell that he was still bothered by the weekend’s events. Hopefully he doesn’t have a disappointing weekend like this one ever again.

I really do need to go on a rant here! I am so tired of my neighbor’s kid, that I’m at my wit’s end. She is up here constantly, even when my daughter tells her that she is not going outside. When she doesn’t get her own way, she then gets her mother, father or babysitter to call me to ask if my daughter can come out. This is really starting to get on my nerves!! I really don’t know what to say to this kid and her family without starting world war six. Hopefully we sell our home right away so I can remove myself and my daughter from this situation. Otherwise, I honestly think I’m going to blow.

Yesterday I received an e-mail from my oldest son. He is coming home for a visit. Two years ago he moved out and moved quite far from home. So we haven’t seen him in two years. But he finally has the money and time to come home for a visit. And his brother and sister couldn’t be happier. They have already made a lot of plans for his visit and really just can’t wait to see him. His father and I are waiting anxiously as well. But I still don’t think that we are as excited as the two kids are. Hopefully his plans don’t change, or there will be two really, really disappointed kids! He is supposed to be home on August 2nd which will be just in time for his brother and sister’s birthday. They have both claimed this will be the best birthday present they could ever receive. So guys keep your fingers crossed that he gets to come home.