August 13, 2021

 Another month has nearly gone by, and wouldn't you know it.... We are back to school in just a few weeks!

Summer, as it always seems, has not been long enough.  Partially due to the fact that I have spent almost half of the last month teaching first aid classes (and renewing my instructor certification for another 3 years).  Also because everything has been so expensive: bills, food, fuel, that we have been trying to do as much as we can at home without raking up more costs.  While this may not be everyone's idea of a "great summer', I'd rather make memories with the kids and hubby all throughout the year than try and push it into the summer (when everyone else is trying to vacation) and when I am mainly on EI.

In the last 8 months, we have managed to: make a day trip to Drumheller, go for a 1 night camping trip with Scouts, gone to the spray park a number of times, spent the day at the inlaws playing outside on a homemade slip-n-slide, been attempting to ride without training wheels (testing my patience with the process, of course), launched model rockets, gone to the movies, been hiking, done some archery, and more.  So while we haven't had a 'vacation', I'd like to say we've been trying to make as most of the year as we possibly can!

Our garden isn't doing as well as in previous years.  The cucumbers struggled to get going, and the grass started to take over the garden boxes.  It's harder to keep out than I would like... But it has also been incredibly hot with not near enough rain over the growing season.  We haven't even had a really good "booming" thunderstorm this year.  That alone has disappointed me greatly, but apparently a storm is rolling in tonight, so....fingers crossed.  A storm would be nice to cool the house down!

Back to the grind again tomorrow, as I have a class to finish teaching this weekend!