I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it lately–but I LOVE redesigning templates on blogs! I have done all of mine–and my sisters–my aunts–and you know–it never gets old! It’s like redecorating with no money! My favorite is my Scale Hopper blog–but I get to redesign another over the weekend–so it may not last! I’ll check back in and let you know the link to the new template–if I like it!!

Ok–chalk this one up to a “Bad Mom” moment!! The last three weeks–my kids have been signed up for 5 day summer camp! It cost $800 for 3 kids to go to camp all day for three weeks! Well, yesterday was the first day of session 2–and I have to say–I wanted to save some money–and maybe sleep in a couple of days a week-so I only signed them up for 3 days. This cost $555 for three kids to go to summer camp 3 days a week for 3 weeks.

Today was day 1 with no camp–and, erm…I’m DYING!! All I’ve had today is: I’m hungry! I’m bored! Can I play playstation? Can I play on computer? I don’t want to do my chores! Oh my heavens!! They don’t have camp tomorrow because of the fourth of July–but I’m thinking come Thursday morning–I will be heading to the community center to pay the difference between what I paid for 3 day to move them back to 5 day!

I know–bad mom! But at least with 5 day–their day’s are filled with fun–and they come home exhausted from all of the adventures they had that day! Here–they are just bored and driving me crazy!!

I posted a different video–and the story behind this moment over on my Genki Desu Yo blog–but I had a second video–and thought I would upload it here! What a sweetie!!

Can you believe this!! This is my little man–my 7 year old Grayson decided a 2 weeks ago that he was big enough to jump off of the diving board. Grayson has always been really special to me–not because he’s my son (that too) but because we almost lost him when he was born. I always use the word “almost” and that probably isn’t correct. Because of a few incredibly LUCKY happenings after he was born–we weren’t close to losing him–had we not been so lucky-he would have passed away. 7 1/2 years later–and that statement and the memories of that night bring me chills and make me very teary.

If you want the full story–you’ll have to go back to the Grayson’s Birthday post–but long story short–before anything critical was found-we were told he had a heart murmur. Now the only thing I knew of a heart murmur was that my mom had one and had to take antibiotics before she goes to the dentist, and a girl in my 7th grade class. She got out of gym class because of it. I remember sitting in the hospital so sad for this new little boy because his big brother was Mr. Sportsman–and I knew it would be a heartbreak for him to watch his older brother play sports and not be able to participate.

After everything critical was healed-Grayson’s heart is 100% perfect and sports are his mission in life. So today as I watched him–looking so little on the diving board–my mind flashed back to the thoughts of him never being able to do things like this–and a huge sense of relief and peace passed over me. Grayson is perfect–and sadly—growing up really fast!