packing and sneezing

Most Saturday morning Matt takes the girls on an outing (zoo, bus, park, aquarium). 

During this time I eat bonbons, get pedicures and take naps.

Usually, actually, I clean the house. 

It is really nice to clean without kids under foot.

Sometimes I will bake.

Lately I have been packing.

My productivity was down significantly over the weekend due to a common, obnoxious cold.

I had been enjoying a long stretch of health so this seemed particularly cruel timing:

during some of the nicest warm weather we ever get and when I should be packing like a mad woman.

But in another way it was nice to be sick over the sunny 3-day weekend

 because Matt spent a lot of time out of the house with the girls and

 I was able to rest a fair bit a midst the packing.

My brain has also been on school lately.

Co-op starts with the girls next week 

("this summer has gone by so fast!" we all say)

Since I have both girls in classes it is a little more to be on top of.

Plus I am the class chair for Etta's class which means additional meetings and emails

 and being the point-person and reaching out to the new people, etc

I am not trying to complain, it is just a busy time of year.

It is going to be mid-October and I am going to be in Vegas

for my sister's wedding before I know it!

(oops, still have not booked the hotel or flight for that... 

and have not done any shopping or thinking about what to wear)

 On a fresher note, we got the first red tomatoes in our yard. 

They are not beefsteak but most are bigger than romas. 

Our orange cherry tomatoes are delicious and ripening at a rapid pace,

but there is just something about the first red one that you can sink your teeth into!

Etta agreed. She wanted more but I made her share it with me. 

That first tomato never made it inside the house.