A Day without Blogging

A day without blogging was not exactly like a day without sunshine, though it did seem to throw me off my game a bit. 

In the morning when I could not blog, I seemed to spend a lot of time in the stage of Denial, where I just kept trying to go to Blogger and then stare dumbly at the screen that said "blogger is not available."  I did that more times than I care to admit.

Responsibilities then interfered with my non-blogging...oh those pesky 1. children, 2. dog, 3. students in my class at the Community Cancer Center, 4. medical appointment, 5. children, 6. children, and 7. children.

It was the kids first day at Fairview Day Camp.  Every year the campers get a t-shirt.  The camp that has won the Summer Olympic competition between Fairview, Maxwell, and Anderson camps from the summer before gets the much-coveted tie-dye design t-shirts.  Last year Fairview won, so the kids now have cool green tie-dye day camp shirts.

I'd put a photo in here if I hadn't lost my danged camera on my trip to Tennessee.

I made a special trip to Jewel Osco before camp yesterday to get each kid their own special bottle of sunscreen.  Sierra left hers in the car (I later took it to her) and Jeremiah apparently forgot he had to put it on above the level of his shoulders, as he is now pink on face and neck.  

In the evening, Jeremiah had a baseball game.  In the third inning he got to pitch.  He threw 8 pitches and the inning was over.  First batter hit the ball back to him and he caught it.  Second batter hit the ball to him and he threw to first base for the out.  Third batter reached on an error.  Fourth batter hit the ball to the first baseman for an out.

He was, as you can imagine, thrilled.

Then the fourth inning proved the saying "rookie pitchers will break your heart every time."

I also did a lot of reading while blogger was unavailable.  I finished Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler.  I read some poems in the books my mom gave me this weekend:  Birds that Frequent the Night, and Spoon River Anthology.  The kids and I read Chapter Two of Theodore Boone Kid Lawyer.

Those books will be the subject of another blog, on another day...Lord willin' and the creek don't rise!