It's not titleable.

Last weekend we took the kids on a short get-away to a nearby city, we had big plans about spending a lot of time at the amusement/waterpark. We checked into our hotel with the intention of just dropping off our bags in the room and heading right back out, but the kids were thrilled with the hotel (it's been 8 months since they last stayed in one), and immediately tucked themselves into one of the beds to try it out, then they went in the closet and closed the sliding door taking turns with who was in and who was out, and of course, they jumped on the bed.

When we told them it was time to head out for the amusement park, my 7 year old actually said, "Or we could just stay here and order pizza!"
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I love that kids can really be entertained with so little! Our hotel was in downtown and had a rooftop pool. The pool was pretty much the size of a postage stamp, like the size of a puddle compared to the neighborhood pool they usually swim in, but the kids? Were delighted with it and could have swum back and forth (only 4 strokes needed to get across!) all day long!
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Can I just stop right here and ask, "What happened to July?"

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I have maximized the school supply sales and replenished our supply of glue sticks, tape, and markers. Can you ever have enough of that stuff when you have little ones around? My daughter can use an entire roll of scotch tape in just one craft! It's a gift she has! Too bad there's not actually a market for tape art!

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Speaking of not conserving stuff, usually I fall into the conserving camp (cloth napkin-using, repurposing, recycling), but there are a few things in life you just have to use generously.

I found myself recently actually telling one of my kids, "You can use more than one square of toilet paper when you wipe. Really, you need to use more than one square!"
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As if that wasn't surreal enough, at some point this week while I was eating lunch with the kids the phrase "Sweet Caroline" came up. (My daughter has a doll she's named Caroline and I think we were talking about the doll.) I said, "You know that's a song." And got blank stares! So, I attempted to sing it. It was an awful rendition and I could only remember a few lines, so I got the computer and brought up YouTube to find the entire song to play for them and before I knew it, there I was subjecting my kids to Neil Diamond! It was scary and deliciously enjoyable all at the same time!

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I'm taking an extra day off blogging each week for the next few weeks to have more time to relish the last days of summer with my kiddos and it may continue through the first few weeks of school depending on how busy/stressful that transition back to school is. So, there likely won't be a new post up until Monday night or Tuesday morning. Have a wonderful weekend, and yes, I did make up that word in the title of this post, many apologies to all the English teachers out there!

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