It's Officially Summer

It has been such a cold, wet spring that I haven't even had thoughts about getting the boat out of storage. Chris and MiKell invited us to go to Lake Powell, however. Good thing they approached Tristan first, because he was ready to go. I kept asking, "Are you sure you want to go?" But it was so fun AND it was warm. I guess I am ready to take my socks off and start wearing my sandals finally! Thanks for letting us tag along, Chris and MiKell.

Comatose?

Sometimes when I look back on my life of raising seven kids, it seems like it happened to someone else. Now that I am on this end of that experience, it seems like it just whizzed by so quickly and that I was in a daze for most of it. Or maybe I was unconscious and I am just now coming into a conscious state. I don't know, but sometimes it all seems like it was a dream.

This past week I had my grandson, Tyler, staying with us while his parents were away. It was so fun. On Friday, his three brothers joined him and we took them all down to Rockville. Tristan's sister was there visiting with her four kids who stayed at our house and played all day long on Saturday. Eight kids in a little house all day! At first, I was aware of the extra noise and kept picking up all the clutter. It didn't take long, however, to find I had re-entered my unconscious state: unless you screamed like you were hurt, I didn't notice. Unless I stepped on the Legos, I didn't know they were ALL OVER the house. I did get grossed out by someone's bug smeared on the wall. It was so fun, but I decided that being in a daze or unconscious made it all a lot more fun.

Your opinion, Please!

Ta Da! Here's a picture of the new outside of our Rockville house. It used to be a lighter tan. We had forest green shutters on the two front windows. (the roof shingles are a black, dull green shade) I think it still needs shutters, but I am going to get vinyl ones this time instead of the wood ones I made for the original house. The vinyl will hold up better on the window that is outside the porch. I still want to have board and batten shutters, but what color would you put on? The choices are: black, Federal brown (dark brown), Moss green, or the old Forest green again. I don't really want white ones. And, which do you like the best, separated boards or the joined boards? Please give me your opinion, I have made too many decisions lately!