June 23rd-29th

It has been one hot, hot, HOT week...

Saturday:

Spent the day getting some Bible Buddies

ready for Sunday School,

and then headed off to the park to finish up our 

VBS "Missions Trip"

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Sunday:

Church-

which involved singing with the Praise Band

and lovin' on my K-1 kiddos-

then I went home and took a lovely afternoon nap.

(I just wish I would have woken up

in a better mood after said nap-

I am so sorry Super Dad!)

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Monday:

Time to start cleaning up the remains of

last week's adventures-

with a break to play in some buckets of water

with the kiddos in the late afternoon...

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Tuesday:

Began the day running around to do some errands

while the kiddos went to the $1 movie with 

a dear family friend-

then came home and continued

scrubbing and dusting and sweeping and washing...

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Wednesday:

Woo-hoo!

We have a clean shower shower again!

(Time to tackle some closet organization...)

In the evening,

I met with a couple of mothers  from our church

who are looking into homeschooling their kiddos

in the near future.

We had some ice cream and enjoyed

a hopefully helpful discussion...

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Thursday:

The kiddos and I headed off to a 

Birthday Pool Party-

for about 4 hours-

then spent about an hour at the Farmer's Market

with some friends.

Guess what Wonder Mom forgot to do?

REAPPLY SUNSCREEN.

We are Whitey-McWhitersons in this household.

That was not a smart move.

We are NOW all a lovely shade of Lobster Red.

(Really, we are not severely burnt,

but this is the most sun-burnt

I have been in a long while,

and the kiddos have NEVER had sun burns

like this-

Thank heavens for aloe and lavender!)

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Friday:

After we gingerly applied aloe and lavender,

the kiddos opened up some surprise gifties

they received in the mail:

Jungle Girl got the "Friendship Bracelet Maker,"

Baby Girl got the "My Ribbon Barrett Maker,"

and

Little Wild Man got "Straws and Connectors."

(Oh how I LOVE the Mindware Catalog!)

They brought their goodies to

my mom's in the afternoon

and tried them out.

Then the girls went over to 

Knit Wit's house to spend the night,

and I picked up one of

Little Wild Man's buddies home with us

to spend the night.

And now I blog in a peacefully quiet living room,

getting ready to plan a Saturday morning

of bargain shopping,

starting with the 

Old Navy $1 Flip Flop Sale...

Woot!  Woot!

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To see a photo play-by-play of the above pic,

just click HERE...

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I'll be linking up this post up to

Collage Friday,

Week in Review,

and the

Weekly Wrap-Up...