had me a blast!
Hi, there! I’ve been taking a blogging break this summer to spend time with my family and just chill. I needed it. Life gets crazy and I didn’t want to feel the pressure of anything, including writing. I love to document my fun times, but I decided to just live them this summer and it was perfect. The kids were busy with camps. Daniel’s favorite was engineering camp because he was able to build skyscrapers with those candy Dots and then EAT them. (Mind blown.) Annabel loved reading camp because she mastered her sight words and watched Frozen on the last day. Just because. (Will this Frozen phenom ever end? I hope not.) We went on our annual trip to Myrtle Beach and the kids spent a fun week with their cousins, aunt, uncle, and grandparents. They both took up golf. We spent time exploring new parts of our city. Then there were all the lazy days in between where alarm clocks were not set, movies were watched, friends came to play, we hung at the pool, and everything was right in the world. It was a seriously cool summer.
And there was a new addition to the family this summer.
Daniel used the money his grandparents gave him to buy Tie. (“Spelled T-I-E, Mama, not T-Y. Okay?”) Got it, buddy.
I tried to convince Daniel to buy a hermit crab. Growing up in Maryland, we went to Ocean City every summer. And almost every summer I brought home a new hermit crab friend, complete with a small circular cage and that extra shell to grow into. I told Daniel I would feed my crab saltine crackers and sometimes they would escape and I’d hear them crawling around under my bed. That did not go over well. “No hermit crab, Mama. I want a fish!” Even though I was a little heartbroken my son did not want to experience the same summer pet memories as his Mama, I was okay with the decision. Daniel picked out the beta fish, the tank, and the small plastic plants like a proud parent. And even though he’s not a crab, he’s pretty darn perfect. Welcome, Tie Ronald Kaye.
