Summer vacation.......

Just seems to suck the life out of me. I don't get it but I am soooooooo tired and its not like I am the one who is out on school break either. I really don't get it. We have been relaxing and not doing much, other than the stray summer birthday party here and there. Many trips to the library for reading material and an upcoming visit to Greenfield Village. But the girls are getting that cooped up feeling.Playing outside doesn't calm them down as much as it used to which frustrates me to no end. But I think what is getting to me is the endless 'can so-and-so spend the night?' It always is during the week - which means I have to stay up to make sure they go to sleep at a good time. Never happens. Evidently my oldest claims to have stayed up until 3 am last night. I gave up at 11 pm after going into the room twice. God I can't wait for school to start back up for them. Only 25 more days!!!!

But on to other things. This past Sunday at church we went over a passage from Philippians and our youth pastor did the sermon. He talked about heroes in his life and asked who the heroes were in our lives. This brought to mind my youth pastor from High school. I may not have been on the right path at the time but he worked hard at getting me there. I was still trying to be the bad girl that I thought I was at the time and trying to get to church as often as possible when work didn't get in the way. But I loved listening to what he had to teach us. I hated being put on the spot for skits but I tried my best and had fun. Even with the silly things like crazy sock night - I won of course. But that is what made the connection for me at the time - the fun of learning new things in a different way. He left the church the same year I joined the one my in-laws attended. But he is teaching still - just in a different capacity as a High school english teacher in his home state. So if he ever reads this I just want to say thanks Thurman for teaching me the path I should be on even if it took a while to stick.