I lost my mind for awhile...

We've been BUSssssY.

It's supposed to be 'summer' which for teachers means sleeping in and relaxing, lunching with those who still must take lunch breaks. But, for me (with no job, yet) it's filled with applications, crafting to get away from applications and entertaining a very feisty toddler.

See Exhibit #1 above: National Family Night out, Pinkie got her face painted as a pink kitty. It was outstanding. I've never seen such amazing face painting. Then came the pizza, the cake, the soda, the popcorn...

Then when all other distraction methods fail, see Exhibit #2: high heels. Open the closet door and let Pinkie play with all my high heels. I have quite the selection but not many occasions to wear them these days. I am planning a real date night soon, so... Exhibit #3: For some reason I like to pack my weeks full of tutoring, applying, beginner crafting and keeping up with housework that has been delayed 10 or so months... so we needed a day of summer vacation to the beach. Sand can keep toddlers happy forever and they don't care if their chips are gritty.

And finally, Exhibit #4: this requires background... on July 26th I lost my keys- car keys, house keys, mail key. I don't often lose things so I was naturally perturbed. Luckily we had John's keys, so an extra key the van, share the house key. But then, on August 3rd (still can't find my own keys) I was on my way to a job interview (didn't get the job). I was prim and proper and appropriately flustered. So then I DROPPED HIS KEYS IN THE SEWER! I called him crying, borrowed my seester's car and off I went. The car dealership said the key wouldn't work once it had been submerged in water for 6 hours (till John got home- because I wasn't going in!) and why don't we come on it and pay $300 for a new key...PSYCH...

Not my spend thrift husband- he jumped in the sewer where he could 'feel things rubbing against his legs' and got our key!

After I lost my mind and got it back again- I found my keys at Target...

And now we aren't doing anything during the days and are actually relaxing.