Wow, it's August!

When I just posted that last entry I realized it's August 1st already. Time flies!! I remember sitting in Dublin and stressing about what I was going to do with the kids while they were here home with me for 12 weeks, and now it's already August and I haven't done half of the things with them I had planned to do. On the plane to Krakow Ava and I wrote up a little calendar of our Summer Fun Camp With Mommy - each morning we listed exercise and reading time before lunch, then the afternoons were broken down into Arts and Crafts Day, Sports Day, Errands Day, Field Trips, and Lazy Day. Instead our mornings have become grocery shopping 2-3 times a week, running errands, and then every afternoon they play with each other while I do laundry/clean the house/unpack more boxes/organize bedrooms/write on the blog. I feel really bad! The house is slowly coming together so hopefully after this weekend we will be in good enough shape so that I can save the last of the unpacking/organizing for September when they go to school. We had a lot of things in storage in Dublin (mostly baby items) that we had shipped here and it's all out in the garage, so one of my projects will be to go through all the boxes and make sure we are only keeping what's necessary. And then I might replace the boxes with plastic storage bins because I hate the way clothes smell when they come out of boxes that have been somewhere damp. Did I mention that I found out recently that if we use the taxi service to drive the kids to school, it gets here around 7:30 am and doesn't drop them off until around 4:30pm? Wow, I definitely have enough to keep me busy for a while but what will I do with all my time. Actually, who am I kidding, by the time I go to a 9:00 gym class, get home and showered, make lunch clean up the kitchen it will already be 1:00 and then I will only have a couple of hours each day which goes by fast. I am not sure how Jack will be with that new schedule though, that is a looooong day for him.