On Our Way To Crazy

July 1 – My friend Julie came to visit and my sister got a new apartment!
July 2 – We took the kids rock climbing and it was SO FUN.
July 3 – Fun night out with some new friends and some delicious flatlander enchiladas.
July 4 – Sounds game! Fireworks and beer!
July 5 – I bought a little wooden carved figure of a mexican wrestler named TORTURA.
July 6 – I heard Lisa Loeb on the radio. It was kind of a rough day.
July 7 – I had a great talk with a new parent.
July 8 – I finally figured out the camp rooming conundrum I had been in for two weeks.
July 9 – We had a t-shirt making party at the church where two kids made me what is possibly the ugliest shirt of all time.
July 10 – Took a few girls out to lunch along with a brand new girl to try and help her get more comfortable in the group.
July 11 – The loser boyfriend of one of my girls’ mom got arrested and is potentially out of their lives. This is very good.
July 12 – Last minute camp shopping trip. I love that shopping trip.
July 13 – Fun lunch with our care group people.
July 14 – We took 32 people to camp at 5am and no one died!
July 15 – A girl who has probably said three words in two years finally opened up and poured her heart out to me.
July 16 – I played Angelina Jolie in a youth pastor skit and I think people were laughing with me, not at me.
July 17 – In our church group time the high schoolers got all emotional about how thankful they are for our group and how we provide a safe place for them to be.
July 18 – We all wore our ugly green puff painted shirts to service and no one laughed at us.
July 19 – We brought 32 people home from camp and no one died!
July 20 – We took some of our kids to see an excellent Jackson Waters show.
July 21 – I finally got all the camp pictures uploaded and organized.
July 22 – Two of my favorite girls gave me a super early and super awesome birthday present.
July 23 – Pool party! With duplex cookies! And lots of Dr. Pepper! And noodle guns!
July 24 – A new friend had a baby and I got to hang out with them at the hospital.
July 25 – After spending several weeks trying, we finally got a kid registered for college. Now we just have to get her to go.
July 26 – We made it to six years of marriage and we’re still alive! And we ate amazing italian food from the most random hole in the wall place.
July 27 – Five. Hour. Nap.
July 28 – We stayed in a fancy hotel and played in a fancy pool and hung out on a fancy balcony and ate decidedly non-fancy ribs.
July 29 – I spent the evening talking books with one of my very non-bookish kids.
July 30 – I visited a kid in the hospital with lots of needles and medicine and sickness and not only is he going to be okay but I didn’t pass out! Big day.
July 31 – I had blood drawn! And didn’t die!