Training Wheel Mom: Mission Completed!

In my last post I couldn't wait for school to end. You see I fell into the trap of thinking that somehow, magically I would have more time to do things in the summer. I wrote a long list of projects I was going to accomplish. My theory was that once I wasn't chauffering kids to and from school, I would have more time than I knew what to do with. {Insert hysterical laughter here} Yeah, right! How could I possibly have thought that having 3 boys home all day long would mean I would have any free time?! I was so naïve.

This is why I have to write a catch-up post now. So, here it is.

RJ's uniform shoes lasted. Barely. We had our shoe-throwing away party. Okay, it wasn't a party, but we did eat popsicles after, so that's something.

Bye bye shoes! (By the way, RJ lost that front tooth later that same day!)

Somewhere around this time I had a birthday. It was no ordinary birthday because I turned the big 3-0!! I kept trying to think up a midlife crisis to have, but I couldn't think of anything to be stressed about. Maybe by 40 I'll be able to think of something (it seems wrong to never have a midlife crisis, right?). Besides I really felt like I became part of the 30 club a few years ago when Rubin turned 30.

But I didn't want to turn 30 quietly. Our first idea was to get a babysitter for our kids and go to the airport and hop on the first (cheap) flight we could get to anywhere. How exciting would that have been?! But then we talked to a pilot friend and he said those are always the most expensive tickets. He also told us about a minor issue in which getting tickets like that apparently puts you on some sort of terrorist watch list.

Anyway, on my birthday Rubin surprised me with an adventure: a zip line in the mountains!

It was a blast! And the whole zip line group sang happy birthday to me as I was speeding wildly toward them!

After zip lining we took the kids to the zoo.