A few pictures from our trip

I Can't Believe It's Gone :(

I am not happy about school starting tomorrow. As I think about each of my kids I wonder if I spent enough time this summer giving them my love and support and attention. Did I nag them too much? Yell at them too much? Ignore opportunities to talk with them? And now they're going to be gone all day (except for Goose, of course) and by the time I have next summer with them, they'll all be a year older and that much closer to being gone.

Some good things happened this summer. We did go on bike rides together and sometimes we worked in the yard together and one day we colored pictures together. But so much time was wasted on my part.

Our trip to San Diego was good. At the time, there were occasions when I thought we had way too much time all together, but all in all, it couldn't have been better. The ocean was beautiful and fun and T-Bone, Janey, Husband and I all got to snorkel around the cove and see fish swimming around. The zoo was interesting and Goose actually walked almost the whole time. She came face to face with an orangutan and said "Hello." Cheeseball couldn't believe how big the anaconda in the reptile house was. Janey liked taking pictures of the panda in the tree. Legoland was also great. Even Beulah couldn't resist the charm of the millions of legos that made up Miniland, with it's replicas of New York City and Las Vegas. Cheeseball had the time of his life, and T-Bone had a fun time being big enough to do everything he wanted to do, including selecting a level 5 intensity for the ride that picks you up and shakes you.

Yep, the summer definitely went too fast.