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Last week it was the heat. This week it’s been fever and rash. It hasn’t moved through the house yet, meaning Arwen hasn’t had her turn. I just wanna go for ice cream.

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I’m afraid it’s going to be a long summer.

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Once the temperature gets up to 90, it gets pretty warm in the house. I commented during supper how warm I was getting, especially heating up some food for them. Savannah joined in with a fainting dramatic tone, “Yeah, my bloodsugar is hot.”

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Actually, it was a half day. They call it Field Day and they’re told to bring a change of clothes because there would be a sponge fight! Kids love to hear things like that. So I doused her in sunscreen this morning, and the hours whizzed by. I got caught at Costco and realized I had very little time to get through the check out and across town to her school. From there we went to McDonald’s. Not the best place to go to on the last day of school, everyone hungry from their fun. and wild for summer. The play structure inside was literally teeming with children, hot, sweaty, happy children.

I used to know nothing about children. Even now I don’t know much about them past the age of seven. But I’ve gotten bolder in my authority with them, especially when they’re parents aren’t within earshot. I followed Arwen to a corner of the play structure that is meant for little toddlers. Some big, wild boys were running in and out of it. Arwen ran right into the middle of the pack! just like a little girl who has a big brother. I told the boys, twice, that they were too big to play in that area, “Too big and too wild” I said. They sort of listened. We didn’t stay very long, and I’ll plan our outting better next time.

We came home and had two neighbors over to play. Later, I turned Savannah and Seth loose in the backyard with the sprinkler and water balloons. Then after we picked up Daddy at the train station, he treated us to pizza!

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Well Arwen is having her second breakfast right now, only because Seth waited to have his first breakfast and is in there now with fresh cereal. He had stomped off from the breakfast table because Savannah had already claimed the cool, red bowl with the attached straw. It was actually a step up; I usually have to personally remove him from his table tantrums.

And the reason Savannah had already claimed the red bowl was because she had planned the whole breakfast herself, getting up just a hair before 6. She set the table and laid out strawberries and almonds for me, with water from the fridge, ham and strawberries for Daddy with a lovely room temperature glass of milk :) and crispies for the little ones. And she remembered to wait to pour their milk until we all got to the table.

This was all for our wedding anniversary, technically yesterday. She had asked me last night what my favorite breakfast was; when I said fried eggs, she stopped me and said, “things you don’t have to cook.” I knew then that she was up to some party planning.

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I taught Savannah’s Sunday school class this spring quarter. It’s my 2nd time. She loves it, begs to help me, hands out supplies, helps me prepare the lesson… A few short years and she won’t want me in her classroom.

My last Sunday for the the quarter, I’d intended the make bar bells out of balloons. I showed her my supplies, and she flipped for the balloons. She kept asking me for some. I held out pretty well because I wanted to have enough for class. Then I realized that the kids would go on to their children’s Bible Hour (children’s worship) and pop those balloons! Then their teachers would find out who I was!

So guess who gets 30 balloons to play with? I’m rationing them out though, a balloon a day. Doesn’t that sound like a nice treat for a 6 1/2 year old?

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