summer plans

I am listening to Pandora - I go back and forth between my Marie Digby station and my One Republic station - and thinking about the last four days of summer. My girlies start school on Monday! I am in a kind of mourning. I have had so much fun with my girlies this summer, even when we didn't do anything at all. It has been a great summer filled with learning to ride their bikes without training wheels and learning to swim. We got to practice swimming a lot this summer. Thanks to all my friends that invited us to their pools! We had a lot of play dates with friends and even a few sleepovers. We met with our mother-daughter book club and saw a few movies. We painted on canvas and learned to make friendship bracelets. We went out for ice cream and shopped at the book fair. I still can't believe it is almost over! Even with all that we did there are several things I had planned on doing but we just didn't get to, like blackberry picking, bowling, ice skating, teaching the girls to cook/bake, and camping outside in our backyard.

I am going to miss them when they head off to first and third grade. Today, my youngest is at a friend's house celebrating his birthday and I have his big sister here playing with my oldest. They are playing with their American Girl dolls outside and having mini-marshmallows on toothpicks. Not sure what they are doing with it all, but they have a plan and are having fun. So, who am I to ask too many questions:)

The girlies are excited to get back to school though, to see their friends they haven't seen for 2 months, to meet their new teachers, to make new friends. Tonight is Back to School Night for both girls. M moves up to the elementary school this year so we have a brand new school to explore and learn about. I think I may be more curious than she is about her new school. This is also the first male teacher she will have - other than PE. She is really looking forward to school and seeing her friends tonight. S can't wait to see her teacher, a young woman in her second year of teaching. I hope she is bubbly and happy and understands S's need to move around. I hope they both will be happy with their teachers and enjoy school for another year.

I cannot believe there are only four days to go! Maybe I'll get some more time to keep reading once they are back at school. Still working on book #87 - The Book of Fred. I have been having too much fun playing with my girlies to read lately!