just 10 more

No, not my double one on my face; the chinchillas.  They went home today with much trauma and excitement.  A.’s friend and her mom and 3 little brothers came around noon to get them; they were transferred smoothly to a small bird cage for travel since the big cage had to be put on it’s side in the mini van.  All loaded with much discussion (read fighting) about who would hold them, the bird cage came apart and 4 chins were running all over the van closed in with 4 fighting kids; the mom was outside.  They were SLOWLY caught—the heat was getting to them and I ended up driving A., her friend, and the chins to their home in my car as the tension level in the van was not conducive to anyone’s well being at that point.  The poor mom, she was being so calm and trying to be reasonable in the face of  an awful situation.  I suppose she does this every day—OMG!!!  I couldn’t, I just couldn’t; and I know these to be really good kids.  Hats off to all with more than one child.  I came home and took a nap.

Life has been much slower since the end of school.  Sleeping well, sleeping in till 7-8am every day—heaven.  Didn’t make gym Mon., did Wed., planning on it tomorrow.  Had new orthotics made for A.’s running shoes by her physical therapist this week. Food has varied from very good to totally awful.  Today was awful–one reason why I made the effort to get on here and post.  Need to blog it all again and get accountable; I slip SOOOO far, SOOOO fast!!!!!!

Went to annual review of A. sched. for next year w/ head of IB program—-she said that our IB kids who took IB exams last year scored well enough to put the school in the top 2% of all the IB programs worldwide.  This year they had 3 seniors who attained GPA’s of higher than 4.9 so they gave them all top honors.  A.’s swimming with some very smart fish, she still seems happy with it all and wants to do this.  I can’t imagine myself making the decisions she’s made at her age.

We saw the Rachel the wonder horse last night.  She behaved very well; calm as could be.  Took along one of the women (a lovely woman from France) from my exercise group as she likes horses and wanted to meet Rachel.  A’s lesson was cancelled as her instructor had an injured pony on a neighboring farm to attend to.  She had a good ride anyway and horse camp is next week so she should get her fill of horses (as if that’s possible!!!).  The following week a day trip to DC is in the works.  Also, her first semi-formal event!!!!!!!  July will be orchestra camp; she teaches at the early sessions and usually plays with the later one…..don’t know exactly how that will work this year with her switching to cello.

The weather has been great the last couple days, no humidity, not too hot.  The only problem, and it has been terrible at times, is all the smoke from the wildfires west and south of us.

Summertime and life is good, chickadees!  I could get used to this!!!!

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