Creeeeaaaaak. Hellllloooo?

Wow, I haven't been on the old blog site here in a bit, and it looks nothing like I remember. I will take a short run at a post- why not?

Somehow it is August already. I made a couple of mild vows at the beginning of the summer, one was that we would definitely have root beer floats, and one was that I would learn how to play chess. Because shamefully, I don't know how. On Saturday we went to a root beer stand in Issaquah that has a name I do not dare to type onto the Interwebs, and there, my friends, we drank the world's largest root beer float. So, one down, one to go. I still don't know how to play chess, but Jim just this moment agreed to teach me whilst we vacation in one short week and a half. Woo!

The other mild vow, really an amorphous resolution, was that we would have a terrific summer. I feel like we have! We have had a lot of fun, gone a lot of places, enjoyed a lot of sunshine. But I am having the feeling that I'm not sustaining it. There are a few weeks left yet of summer, and I need to figure out a way to make sure it feels that way for the kids. Though I suspect getting to Orcas is going to help with that considerably. Onward!