What's up?

Sorry I have been AWOL. Everything is fine here. We have been having fun, playing outside in the water a lot. The other day, I spent a couple of hours outside in the scorching morning heat cleaning up some flower beds while the boys played in the hose. Every once in a while I had to asked them to spray me because, otherwise, I would not have been able to stay out as long. It has been very very hot here...around the 100 to 103 ish mark and that does not include the heat index, meaning it does not factor in the humidity to tell you what it really feels like (this is like factoring in the wind chill factor in the winter).

We finally got a break this morning and we had a cool front come through so it only got into the low 90's today but there was much less humidity so it really felt much cooler.

Anyway, not much new going on around here. Just staying busy with summer and trying to catch up on a few things and I was also reading a book so that took me a way for a couple of days. My sister gave the boys some books for when they are a bit older so I was putting them away yesterday morning and started reading The Swiss Family Robinson to see if it was too old for them (it was). Anyway, I got interested in it because I had never read it before. I was already planning to make my weekly jaunt to the library for the boys anyway so I also found the adult version of The Swiss Family Robinson while I was there. I finished it today. What a wonderful book that was! It was written in such a sweet way that it just made me want to be part of that wonderful family, stranded on that beautiful island with them:). I really enjoyed it and was not quite ready to be finished with it. This is one of the things I love about having children. I get to read all of the books that I missed when I was growing up.

I have been trying to find one of Ron Paul's books because I wanted to read more about his beliefs and for what he fights when in congress. I have not written much about politics lately but I have still been watching and reading and, suffice it to say (for now) that I am not happy with how things are going AT ALL. (surprise surprise:).

N has caught a summer cold and I am wondering if anyone else is going to catch it. He still keeps going like the energizer bunny, although I can tell he is not quite as agreeable at times. He has once again developed the bad habit of telling his father and mother "no!" or "no! I won't!" when we tell him to do something. This had been going on for a while now and it was really starting to get to me. The dad and I were not handling it with one consequence consistently and I could tell it was getting worse. The dad and I discussed this yesterday and then discussed it with N to let him know what the consistent consequence will be for this moving forward. Today every time this happened, the dad just happened to be in charge, so he handled the consequences. Tomorrow will be back to mom and boys since the dad will be back to work so I will be in charge of consequences....bummer, I really liked the dad being in charge of this stuff today. It was a nice break:). Hopefully N will have better control tomorrow and we will not hear this much. The last time we really cracked down on it, it did not take long to disappear, so I am hopeful. This child sure does need consistency and diligence (so does the mom:).

Anyway, that's it for tonight. Hope you had a good weekend.