School's out...not sure how I feel about that

The little man's school ended last Friday & although I'm glad to have more freedom from the crazy scheduling (since baseball season ended too), it now time for me to be creative & come up with things to do with the kiddoes. If they don't have something to occupy their time, they pick at each other & then I find myself playing referee (and that job sucks) - or they'll stare at the television with that glazed look on their face as their brains are being sucked out of their heads.

It's not easy coming up with things to do everyday - we have a few short trips to the shore and to a campground scheduled, but my creativitiy only goes so far. Allie goes to her preschool/daycare two days per week through the summer, which is good for her & lets her see her friends.

Brent has friends in the neighborhood his age, but there are only two little girls Allie's age in our neighborhood & one, well let me say, has some attitude issues that Allie likes to imitate whenever they play together - the other one is the daughter of the very large Christian home-schooling family behind us & we kind of keep our distance from them (that's a whole post in itself). So there's the poor little lady telling me she doesn't have anyone to play with whenever she sees Brent with his buds. Or, if Brent's friends aren't around I have him telling me he's "bored" and the two of them picking - UGH. I've hosted some play dates here for the lady recently, but I'm not doing that every day.

So here I am, trying to think of activities to do or who we can call to come over - while trying to avoid carting them all over creation to fill their days - not only because of ridiculous gas prices, it's not environmentally friendly either.

We have toys, bikes, bubbles, trampoline, swingset, balls, basketball hoops and countless other things to play with - and they claim that they're bored. The carnival can't come to town everyday. What ever happened to just running through the sprinkler? (well, they do love the sprinkler, but only if they have other friends here to do it with them - oiy)

OK, enough complaining - I need put my cruise director hat on & find these turkeys something to do today....