Leisurely Monday
After a very busy long weekend, today was much more relaxed. It gave everyone a bit of time to rest (except for Kirk who had to go back to work)! 🙂 I guess it’s relaxing if you can say that Sarah had her flute lesson, Brittany had her violin lesson and track practice, we had our friend’s kids all day, and we washed, dried, folded, and put away 8 batches of laundry! 🙂 That said, I guess I (Kirk) got the most rest of all! 🙂
Some of the kids had fun slip and sliding in our back yard and running through the sprinklers. They love to get wet and it was a warm day to do so for a change. It’s been unseasonably cool the past few days.
Carmen had a good Siesta today. She started reading Eclipse (book 3 in the Twilight series), didn’t understand much and fell asleep. 🙂 I can only imagine how draining it must be on her to try and understand what is being said all the time. She is doing GREAT, however! After resting, she came down and she and Angela folded clothes together for awhile until everyone else finished up what they were doing. Angela greatly appreciated Carmen coming down and offering to help. She wished that our other girls would do the same thing more often! 🙂
At 6pm, we took Carmen over to the Nye Family’s home, who also live in the area. This is the family that hosed Carmen’s brother, Pablo last summer. They invited her over to dinner with them. She had a great time there.
This week, Sarah and Brittany are going to Girl’s Camp and so we spent the rest of the evening dropping off their bags at their leader’s homes, shopping for sunglasses and water socks, and finishing up their 80’s outfits for one of the days (“Whacky Wednesday”). They are very excited to go to camp this year. Sarah is a little mad because the camp cabins are VERY nice and this year Sarah is in a tent! 🙂 Kirk is going to take Carmen to the camp on Friday and will bring all three girls back on Saturday morning. Carmen seems excited to go and is very willing to do anything new! That is good news for us because we have been doing a LOT of things lately that are very strange to her! 🙂
