summertime

It is a rainy summer day here at Casa Griffin. Tropical storm rains have given us an unusually wet week and the boys and I have spent our fair share of the days puddle stomping and catching raindrops outside. The days have been slow and sluggish. I have had a cold for much of the week, so the pace of the days has been welcomed. Last week I attended my last birth with Julia's clients and officially kicked off my summer with my boys, no longer on call. This is also my last summer with the boys, since I suspect I won't be able to be home with them over summers in the future quite as much. We've been enjoying camp school in the mornings and splashdays on Tuesdays and Field Trip Thursdays. Our fieldtrips have been to the peach orchard and for BBQ and a few in town trips due to illness or births. Future field trips will hopefully be to New Braunfels and the Children's Museum there and Landa Park, to Bastrop to hike and swim, to the Greenbelt to throw rocks, Mt. Bonnell and McKinney Falls and some farm days when the boys are out of school in a few weeks. I'm trying to enjoy our final freedom days before Zachary starts Kindergarten in a month and a half and Caleb begins school 5 days a week. I'm gladly enjoying their energy, their enthusiasm and hoping to break out some creative energy and create memories of slow days of summer mixed with some ice cream, water, sunny afternoons and dirt covered boys.