May 30 - June 4

Our week by the numbers:

1 - hour into summer vacation that I wanted to kill my kids.

1 - pitcher of juice spilled on the kitchen table (why I wanted to kill the kids.)

2 - kids who sat and watched while the 1 kid dumped the pitcher.

2- times we got stranded in the van - once in the DI parking lot, once at an intersection.

1 - how many batteries we need to buy so the van won't die on us again (we hope!!).

1 - number of battery terminals we replaced to find out it was really the battery that needed to be replaced.

3 - excited kids to be done with school for the year, sad because they had to leave teachers they really enjoyed.

(S with her teacher)

(K with her teacher)

4 - planter boxes we filled with dirt for the raised part of our garden.

3 - asparagus plants that survived the no water/being stepped on/morning glory suffication/transplant into the new raised planter boxes.

6 - tomato plants we planted (along with a few cucumbers, pumpkins, squash, lettuce, peppers, strawberries, corn, potatoes, radishes, carrots, etc).

1 - wagon-fulls of rocks A, S, and K picked up from the garden.

2 - days of rain. but that meant

5 - days of no rain!! finally!!

2 - cookouts. yum!!

2 - birthday dinners with

20 - cousins. each time.

1 - trip to the library with

6 - kids (10 and under - what was I thinking!!!) bringing home

24 - library books (we all love to read. And I was being conservative, too!!)

8 - batches of laundry.

0 - line dried. It wasn't QUITE dry enough on wash day. I was sad. I like line-dried clothes.

1 - new game I learned at game group.

3 - times we have played it SINCE learning the game on Tuesday.

1 - song I accompanied for some friends in the ward for sacrament meeting.

2 - baptisms I played at (technically, 1 service, 2 boys getting baptized. Neat service, none-the-less.)