Return from Beyond

Hello all.  I am sure you have had quite enough of the previous crying baby post, so I am relieving you.  I have had faint urges to blog here and there; have mentally written some phenomenal posts, at least they seem phenomenal.  To my brain.  Usually during the night, or other times when I am far far far from typing....  I have been busy.  I have been lazy.  I have been avoiding stuff too.  But my summer break is quickly fading fast.  I go back to work July 11th and Big Belle and I both start school the week after that.  I have to say that year round school is still the best idea since sliced bread.  I will save you the reasons why, I'm sure I posted them somewhere before.  One of these days I'll start looking back to old posts for you.  In the meantime, if you really want to know why it is so great leave a comment and I'll let you know.

In the past few weeks we've ended a school year.  I've packed up my entire classroom.  It is entirely (well, I hope entirely by now) moved to my our new school where it sits for me to put it together.  Nana came to visit and we had so much fun.  (ClaraBelle asks everyday what you are doing and when can you come back.  She wants to play games.  "Because she is MY Nana."  You've graduated to ownership status, must've been a great visit!!!)  Also thanks to Nana Chris and I went to a Phish concert and had a great time, despite about 10 minutes of panic where we had no idea where we parked and my super human (so aptly named because I don't have any explanation how I do it save panic) vehicle finding beacon led us right to it.  Big Belle had a super busy week at a Vacation Bible School with her friend -- whom I think it is safe to safe might be elevated to best friend status.  She learned so much, and was telling me all about it everyday.  I was so impressed.  Plus, the songs she learned were really great.  I'll share some with you in another post, because you can find them on You Tube.  Not a huge fan of Christian music, these kids songs are very enjoyable to even me.  Now Big Belle is on another week of VBS, this time at the church we attend.  Baby Belle -- only another month of that status, and then I might need to change it to Toddler Belle -- had ear tubes today.  The surgery is thankfully super quick, and even though we had to be at the office at 6:30, we were home by 8 and all but 10 minutes of that was waiting in the waiting room or recovery area.  Not bad.

We had a great family day at the zoo on Saturday, and I can say I didn't waste one single photo on an animal, except the 5 you see in the photo below.  :)

My goal is better blogging.  I have so much to say.  I'll see how I can do.