Our lazy, lovely summer has come to an end. While it was a hard one for our country, it was a rich one for my family. We enjoyed days full of sunscreen and sweat, painters tape and play, grandparents and good friends. Would you indulge me as I do a numeric recap? Let’s not launch into weighty topics just yet.
Exact number of days we had off from school: 80
Hours spent watching the Olympics: 25
Hours spent discussing why Michael Phelps would name his son Boomer: 5
Hours one child spent “supervising” our neighbor’s front walkway project while he snuck math problems into the conversation: 10
Times the kids stole my phone: 27
Times my phone informed me its memory was full because of videos they made: 27
Times Rick said, “Please shut the door. The A/C is on!”: 240
Times I asked, “Did you change your underwear?”: 80
Times they had changed their underwear: 0
Times the “craft area” I set up got used: 2
Times the “playing school area” the girls asked for got used: 0
Pictures taken of our cat: 90
Pictures taken of our cat in a box: 60
Pictures taken of our cat asleep: 30
Short bike trips: 54
Pools swum in: 6
Lakes swum in: 2
Boats paddled and sailed: 4
Rocks taken from beach to “keep”: 34 (Why? Why??)
Old friends hosted/visited: 23
Ways old friends blessed my heart: 500
Breakfasts before 10 AM (not including Rick’s): 5
Cups of coffee drunk by me: 185
Dinners eaten outside: 75
Times I threatened to throw out all the food in the fridge because of one mysterious rotten smell that I could not find the source of: 12 (what can I say? It’s an affliction.)
Midwestern states visited: 4
Times I handed my kids $5 and sent them to get me coffee: 30 (all in my dreams)
Beloved family cars that met their end: 1
Days between the death of old car (named Morrison Borrison) and purchase of new car (Yevgeny Borisovich): 21
Times I stalled out on public streets while driving borrowed stick shift car: 16
Pints of fruit and vegetables picked: 10 at our house, 90 at my in-laws’
Bowls of ice cream eaten: 40 (conservatively)
Brawls over Legos: 17
Times Legos were taken away for a week: 1
Times Rick regretted having to work from home (when his office air conditioner was broken): 65
Imaginative scenarios created: 16 (these included three doctors offices, “Camp Goetsch,” a spa, a spa parking lot, a boutique, three roller coasters, a restaurant, etc.)
Square inches of the girls’ floor we could see by the end of the summer: 0
Times I yelled and/or hissed with a look of derangement because of “the mess”: (a mere) 42
Large house projects started: 2
Large house projects completed: 0
Books piled on the coffee table: 179 (average)
Migraines from the state of coffee table and living room: 11
Little kids enjoyed: 9
Times I thought, Wow, having big kids is so fun!: 160
© Laura Goetsch and Thinking About Such Things, 2016
We are looking forward to the day all our kids are big enough, too.
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You might have to stop having babies, then, Aaron, if you ever want to get there! 😉
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