Sunday
Jul132008
CAMP MOMMY 2008 - Rainy Sunday
Sunday, July 13, 2008 at 04:18PM
It has been a lovely Sunday -- buckets of rain, all day, which is nice (really!), to snuggle in for the day. We watched the NASCAR race at Chicago last night in its entirety on Tivo -- Kyle Busch won (again), although Jimmie Johnson gave him a run in the last 10 laps and we were hoping-against-hope, cheering on the former champion (who has yet to win a Sprint Cup Race this year), but that Kyle Busch ("The Wild Thing") is on fire this year and he pulled it off in the final lap on a re-start to win again (his 7th Sprint Cup win this year -- he is #1 in points for the Sprint Cup Chase and quite likely to be the Champion this year).
Tony Stewart (8yo ADHD Phenom's favorite) came in 5th place, which was exciting, because he had to get out of the car early last week, at Daytona, and turn it over to a back-up driver, which is highly unusual, because he was sick. He was feeling better by Thursday, when he rocked the NASCAR world by announcing he was leaving the Home Depot #20car and Joe Gibbs Racing to become co-owner and driver for Haas CNC Racing next year, a team that has struggled this year. This is HUGE news in the NASCAR community, so if you are not a NASCAR fan -- now you know!
Last week was a great week for CAMP MOMMY:
1 - It was a short week, since we got home from our Five-Day Family Road Trip late-late on Monday.
2 - On Wednesday, we received the Discovery Toys® MarbleWorks -- The Best Toy EVER, for 8yo ADHD Phenom's birthday on July 4th.
3 - We didn't know it at the time, but that began three days of GREAT TOYS, by coincidence, because on Thursday, we ended up bringing home two gerbils and their whole Critter Trail set-up, with the roll-around-the-house exercise ball, for soon-to-be 11yo Drama Queen's birthday on July 18th.
4 - On Friday, I finally scored the new Wii Fit
, by accident and coincidence at Target, which we have been searching for since it came out in May -- fitness & fun for the whole family!
5 - On Saturday, we lost 13yo Puberty Angst Boy (temporarily), off to Florida with his great-aunt and her grandson (Camp Joan) for a week at the beach AND G'Ma & G'Pa blew through town for a quick visit and a very nice lunch at the Park Tavern at Piedmont Park in Atlanta.
We are looking forward to a terrific week, with Drama Queen's 11th birthday on Friday and a full week of fun events and celebration through Sunday -- I don't know how we ended up on the "Full Octave of the Birthday" celebration plan for each of the kids, every year, especially since we have two birthdays, two weeks apart, in July, but I think it's my mother-in-law's fault (she loves celebration & indulgence!). I can't complain too much, since I manage to enjoy the Full Octave plan around my birthday, too, but it certainly makes for a busy July every year.
And then, AND THEN...hubby and I celebrate our 20th Wedding Anniversary on August 6th, which we are actually celebrating with a long weekend get-away (totally non-NASCAR), employing all of our friends & family to help cover house & home, kids & dog from July 30th thru August 3rd, so that we'll be back that first week of August for all the critical back-to-school shopping and activities leading up to BACK TO SCHOOL on Monday, August 11th.
I told you we were in the homestretch here in Atlanta...
Tony Stewart (8yo ADHD Phenom's favorite) came in 5th place, which was exciting, because he had to get out of the car early last week, at Daytona, and turn it over to a back-up driver, which is highly unusual, because he was sick. He was feeling better by Thursday, when he rocked the NASCAR world by announcing he was leaving the Home Depot #20car and Joe Gibbs Racing to become co-owner and driver for Haas CNC Racing next year, a team that has struggled this year. This is HUGE news in the NASCAR community, so if you are not a NASCAR fan -- now you know!
Last week was a great week for CAMP MOMMY:
1 - It was a short week, since we got home from our Five-Day Family Road Trip late-late on Monday.
2 - On Wednesday, we received the Discovery Toys® MarbleWorks -- The Best Toy EVER, for 8yo ADHD Phenom's birthday on July 4th.
3 - We didn't know it at the time, but that began three days of GREAT TOYS, by coincidence, because on Thursday, we ended up bringing home two gerbils and their whole Critter Trail set-up, with the roll-around-the-house exercise ball, for soon-to-be 11yo Drama Queen's birthday on July 18th.
4 - On Friday, I finally scored the new Wii Fit
, by accident and coincidence at Target, which we have been searching for since it came out in May -- fitness & fun for the whole family!5 - On Saturday, we lost 13yo Puberty Angst Boy (temporarily), off to Florida with his great-aunt and her grandson (Camp Joan) for a week at the beach AND G'Ma & G'Pa blew through town for a quick visit and a very nice lunch at the Park Tavern at Piedmont Park in Atlanta.
We are looking forward to a terrific week, with Drama Queen's 11th birthday on Friday and a full week of fun events and celebration through Sunday -- I don't know how we ended up on the "Full Octave of the Birthday" celebration plan for each of the kids, every year, especially since we have two birthdays, two weeks apart, in July, but I think it's my mother-in-law's fault (she loves celebration & indulgence!). I can't complain too much, since I manage to enjoy the Full Octave plan around my birthday, too, but it certainly makes for a busy July every year.
And then, AND THEN...hubby and I celebrate our 20th Wedding Anniversary on August 6th, which we are actually celebrating with a long weekend get-away (totally non-NASCAR), employing all of our friends & family to help cover house & home, kids & dog from July 30th thru August 3rd, so that we'll be back that first week of August for all the critical back-to-school shopping and activities leading up to BACK TO SCHOOL on Monday, August 11th.
I told you we were in the homestretch here in Atlanta...
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