Times they are a changin', but are they?

Tonight I am taking the kiddo to an Aerosmith concert with a dear friend and her daughter (who is also awesome). Kiddo wasn't sure he wanted to go, but decided last minute.

I remember my parents taking me to concerts, Diana Ross, Anne Murray, Kenny G, George Straight...we went to venues but the majority were after ballgames. Music is huge in our family. So now, I am taking my son to his second concert (Kenny Chesney with Sugarland and Taylor Swift was his first one) and realized, while the venues change - some of the artists don't, and the exeperience doesn't either. Tonight I get to hang with my preteen and can only hope he has as much fun as I did with my mom and daddy.

What did you do with your parents that you hope to carry on to your kids?

Relaxing

The kiddo just posted on his FB that he is home from Scouts and has nothing to do but relax until school starts, not that he relaxing during the summer and it got me thinking. While he has had a few weeks of sleeping until late and then being lazy around the house other than the chores his mean mother makes him do (oh yes, we do chores my friends) summers really aren't as relaxing as I remember.

I remember riding our bikes all day until dark, switching house where at we ate lunch and snacks. Moms not worried as they all has some secret network and knew that all the kids were together anyway and who was where wasn't even a thought. We were all out and about having fun.

Maybe it is just our town, or even our school (which is like a small town in itself), but the kids don't ride bikes all day or head up to the community pool and hang out. They go to games, camps and each other's houses sure, but not nearly like we used too.

Could times really be that different? I openly admit that I am the parent that signs him up for the summer programs, camps and trips - is it us parents that helped take the bike out of the everyday 'toy box'? And really - isn't this schedule what relaxing is to kids now? Heck, the first day he is home I know I will hear "I am bored"... oh and he just left for a baseball game.

Run On Peace

The mom/aunt sitting in the backyard with banana rum, watching the dog try to get his ball from the pool while the youngest member of our 'village' helps by getting the ball which leads to yelling by the dad as the dog runs with ball through the newly painted flooring immediately followed by the ball back in the pool, laughter from moms...repeat at least 2 more times.

Run on sentence? Yes.

Peace on a Friday night? Absolutely.

Hope you all found your form of peace, be it a crowded dance floor or quiet room:)

Oops

For those of you in the cube world, you know how fun over the wall wars can be...candy, beach balls, paper - you name it. Well, as shown in the picture above, I don't let the blue walls close in on me.

A warning was given, "I am going to throw this ball at someone! " 30 minutes later I let it fly, and instead of the cubbee cover I was aiming for I hit my wonderful friend in the head. Couldn't have done that if I tried. I laughed. Next I hear "RUN" and before I am even half way down the cube hall I am pegged. And it was well deserved. And funny. And enjoyed by many.

This was hilarious and we laughed again today. Somehow, in print, not as funny. Guess you had to be there. Bad luck for all of you that you weren't.

Enjoy the cube world my friends - goodness knows we spend enough time in them!

I.....yeah, nothing's coming to me just now.

I wish I had something witty or funny or creative but I have nothing.

Thoughts?

Is the new year now in August?

I just signed up for a boot camp for the month of August. Why August? Because I was asked by a friend so I did it.

I have since been supported by a number of other friends/acquaintances that have done the same thing! It is a often discussed fact that health club memberships go up in January and probably right before bathing suit season, but August? That is the start of the school year, so really it is another beginning of sorts. Could that be what is motivating us?

What is your school year resolution? Boot Camp anyone?

Mondays

It's funny, I was perusing FaceBook this morning and found it funny the amount of people who were unhappy it was Monday. First, let me make it clear - I am no different of course, Mondays tend to slap me upside the head and this one has been no different.

BUT (yes, the big BUT it is Monday afterall), Monday always comes, every week. It comes after Sunday which for most of us is the weekend. Now, if you have kids you know the weekend is actually busier most times than the week. Much busier and more exhausting. Is the difference that we don't have to go into work? Or is it that Mondays are programmed in our heads to be the day of dread?

I think I will like this Monday - despite the crappy way it started! Monday is now my day!!!