Summer is the best for kids and moms. Now that the dust has settled from the past four months, we are finally getting to relax at the Wheeler home. It has been a crazy, busy spring and summer and we are enjoying doing nothing. It isn't really that we haven't done anything. It's just that we haven't been on a rigid schedule with 1-3 places to be on any given day. It has been heavenly. These are the few weeks of the year I work so hard to enjoy. It is hard for me to believe that there are parents ( and even some kids) who can't wait for school to begin. I love being able to hang out with my children, sit on my deck in the mornings, fix lunch for Jeff, stay up late and sleep in. I know things will start picking up again next week, so I have been trying to relish these few weeks with only a few ball games, VBS and a couple of practices. Today was a special gift from God. I had a beautiful morning to mow and have some quiet time. Then I had the pleasure of watching Rachel, Alex, Jacob, Drew and Tate play outside together on the trampoline. Rachel has been so busy living her "grown up, I can drive, high school life that it is a rare thing to see all five of the kids together, much less playing together. Usually when they are all five together, three or four of them are watching the one or two at a sporting event. Drew had asked if Alex could come to play, which isn't unusual. The boys all play video games and some sort of ball together pretty often. Having Rachel in the mix is rare. When Drew asked if Rachel was home and if she could come over, I told him I would ask her. His reply was, "Tell her she needs to come because she hasn't had any fun for two years." In his mind that is how long it has been between play times with his cousin, Rachel. Rachel did come over, and something as simple as turning on the water hose while jumping on the trampoline became sheer pleasure and a special memory for us all. I laughed and they laughed and Rachel said it was the most fun she has had in two years!
Both Rachel and Alex have sports camps next week and then we are off to the World Series the next week. And then we will start the madness of school all over again. We will have a great time, but there is just something special for those few weeks in the middle of summer. It is a blessing from the Lord for us to just be at home together and be a little lazy!
Hope you all get to be a little lazy this summer, too!
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