Peach Picking (a few apples & tomatoes too)

going for just pictures tonight....

And 2 Months Later a recap

Hello Summer where did you go???  I think 10 weeks of vacation is a LONG time...especially with kids.  But yikes this summer FLEW by at a speed unknown before to me.  What made this summer so different???  Camps??  Life??? Three active, crazy, demanding, busy kids???  Church?? I don't know but in this last week before school starts I am trying to fit stuff in.  I am going to miss my Ben so much.  He is off to Kindergarten for 3 full days and 2 days till 1pm.  I'll be able to get stuff done a little easier but boy it's going to be an adjustment getting not having him with me that much.  I cried when I put Cassie on the school bus for Kindergarten....she was so excited.  She could not wait for that yellow bus to drive up our street to pick her up.  This year as I take Ben to school, there will be no yellow bus.  One of the hardest decisions of my life has been made in the past 6 months.  The choice to send Ben to public school here in Wyckoff and to ECES.  It has been an agonizing, long-drawn out, gut-wrenching process.  I'm sure there will tears for me....Ben is super excited and has the best outlook on life.  He is so compassionate and caring.  He has a heart like Jesus most of the time.
So this week we'll go to the movies, have lunches out, play with friends, and try to squeeze as much of summer as possible.  We'll eat ice cream and go to the beach.
Ice cream for lunch today???  I think it is a plan.

So in review of my summer goals...
1. sewing - - no progress
2. hosting- -  about 50% some weeks none, some weeks multiple
3. 1x of scrapbooking
4. Not always once a week to the pool but lots of weeks with multiple trips...also kids swimming with just Nana & Pop a few times
5. 4 day trips to the beach, hopefully peaches this week & fried green tomatoes.
6. I think 2x we have used our free tickets, including tonight.
We saw Brave (not free ~but at the "fancy" theater for $36 for all 5 of us), ParaNorman ($10 for 4 people), Timmy & Ben saw the Spiderman movie, We also saw Ice Age had planned for it to be 2 free tickets but i had managed to lose my card.  Now I have a new one.
7...Dates... we went out to dinner together in Ocean Grove.  It was awesome.  Tonight we head out to see our free movie...The Bourne Legacy.  We'll have a drink or dessert before hand.