A Few Thoughts

Drought.  I know.  It happens.  My computer burned up and for a while we didn't know if my hard drive was intact, but hallelujah it lives on.  I was prepared for the great sorrow it would've been to lose a whole years worth of family pictures.  What a horrible thought that I am glad I can put to rest.

No pictures yet as I still have to download my camera's software onto my new computer.

So, some random thoughts brought on by the events of our summer:

1.  I don't think I ever want to have chickens.  I took care of my friend's daughter's 4H chickens last week while they were away camping.  I found the chickens dumb and sort of crabby.  I felt like they were going to attack me at any moment, but I was the human here, so I put on my game face and walked among them to change out the water and shake down the feed.  It's really not hard at all to care for them.  I just decided I don't like them.  Maybe if I designed a coup that didn't require me to walk among them, but got the chores done....na.  We'll see.  Ellie was not fond of them at all up close.  Can't blame her :)

2.  Girls camp was really fun...when I was a girl.  Not that I didn't have fun, cuz I did.  But going as a leader, camp has too many responsibilities to be truly fun.  I felt like the mother of 16 teenager girls.  I felt like I was constantly cleaning up after them, because I was.  I kept thinking to myself, "don't they want to keep track of their stuff?"  We constantly had a pile of stuff on our picnic table, but by the end after many threats, girls finally claimed their stuff.  Also I found it interesting how little they wanted to help out, because they were so focused on having fun.  Was I like this when I was a young woman?  Is this what I should expect when my girls become teenagers?  But I'm glad they could have a fun experience like I had when I was a girl.  And we did have some good times and made some memories.  It could have been worse.  We didn't have much drama and for that I am very grateful to my awesome young women for being so inclusive, caring, and positive.

3.  Getting your child to sleep in a big bed is difficult when it turns out they are super attached to their crib.  Obviously, I didn't know this was the case at such a degree until we tried.  Oh well.  I have given up on the idea for a good while now.  I think she will potty train before she switches beds.  Hopefully she will get excited about being a big girl and decide on her own that she should sleep in the big bed.  She is so long that the crib looks super uncomfortable to me.  Oh well.  On this topic I will let her lead the way.