July 23 - Vacation

We are on our way to California again, but this will be Dale's first major cross country trip West. We're going sightseeing, family visiting, getting to see the kids a couple days = good stuff. Theoretically this is a honeymoon, but I'm not sure how that's all going to work out since we're staying with family the whole time! :-p

July 14 - Like There's a Script

"I just don't feel like I love you." "I don't want to be tied down right now." "I'm dealing with issues from my childhood (it's not you, it's me)." "We've grown apart." "There's no one else, I just need to figure myself out."


Ugh! Who wrote these crappy cliche lines anyway? And WHY do they continually play out all around me, like some sort of bad form cult-classic movie? Whatever happened to working through the tough stuff IN relationship? Where are the grown-ups anymore?


Watching marriages all around me dissolve into tears & hurtful words & custody battles is simply awful. I believe in marriage, for life. I want to hold out hope. I want someone to show me how that works. Instead, over and over, I learn of friends and associates hitting rough patches and I fear what will happen next. I want to be proven wrong. I want a couple to fight and win, together.

Who keeps handing out the scripts?!? How can we STOP this epidemic?

July - The List

Made a Summer Fun 2010 To Do list with the kids. Had to edit out anything that takes place in July or early August, so the Renaissance Fair, blueberry picking, and fireworks won't be enjoyed together this year.It's still a pretty good list though:

- grow watermelons

- go to the beach

- swimming pool

- go on a nature walk

- go to a library program

- crafts

- go to the zoo

- sleep in a tent

- go to a museum

- play mini-golf

- rock hunting

- read books

- play games

- write a story

- ride bikes (Naomi learn to ride a 2 wheeler)

- find an arrowhead

- go to the fair

- go to a baseball game

- pick wild flowers

We got about half the list "experienced" before the kids left, and I'm optimistic on full completion. Except for that first item Seth randomly created, since we didn't even plant watermelons. Uhhh...

So what fun stuff is on your list?

July 5 - Amputation

I would rather fight off cancer 1000 times if it meant I didn't have to watch another woman drive off with my old life, with my kids.

The children officially started summer with their dad on Thursday, but today they are actually leaving the state for the next 4 1/2 weeks. They swung by on the way out of town to pick up Seth's forgotten DS (vital, I know). All loaded up, tucked in for a family road trip in the new SUV, with their new blond mommy.

It's like they drove off with one of my limbs (accidentally) shut in the door.