Summer Memories

Looking back on my summers as a kid, I remember always going to the D.E.R.A. swimming pool and swimming. My sister and I loved doing that and I can even remember the joy of being able to get a Chick-O-Stick and Pepsi from the concession stand on occasion. I always loved when we went a little later in the afternoon and my dad would come and swim with us when he got off of work. As I got older, I would spend a month at my grandparents in Missouri and the memories I created with them are still some I hold very fondly. Memories - they are something we have that no one can take away from us.

All that being said, I look for little things here and there that will hopefully create memories for the boys. For instance, the week the boys had camp at Lakewood UMC, it rained a lot that week. While Casen's sports camp allowed him to expend a lot of energy, Camden's robotics camp really did not. Camden was ready to get out and run, but it had been raining daily. One day when I got home from working summer school, I heard him ask his dad if they could go running. Shane really did not want to go run in the rain. I told him I would go with him, so away we went. He had so much fun not only running in the rain, but running through the puddles. We would have ran longer had the thunder and lightning not have been so close to us. Making memories . . .

Going to the movies is something the boys enjoy doing and truthfully, they go more with their daddy than with me. Their choice of movies (action packed boy movies) is not always something that I am the least bit interested. However, Incredibles 2 came out this summer and I was ready to see it - so away we all went.

And of course we could not go the summer without doing some arts and crafts. First up was a washer necklace - per Camden's request.

Luckily the slime craze is calming down some, but the boys wanted to make slime again, this time using shaving cream so they could make puffy slime. Who knew making this slime would remind me of my Paw Paw? When I was a kid he always shaved with a razor and Barbisol shaving cream. When you would go in the bathroom after he was done, the smell of the shaving cream lingered in the air. I bought Barbisol shaving cream, not thinking a thing about my Paw Paw. But the minute I started squirting it out into the bowl, the smell overwhelmed me. Amazing how smells can just take you back and stir up some emotions. . .