Whew! We have made to Thursday. The weekend is in sight. Here’s the randomness that is rolling around up there:

• Swimming is the most amazing invention. I don’t know if it is the exercise or being out in the sun all day, but it makes for two very exhausted girlies. It is 7:20pm, (I’m writing this Wed. evening) and there are – count ‘em – 1, 2, girls ready to pass out, all tucked into their beds for the night. God bless swimming.

• After swim lessons today we hit the local high school pool for their open swim with some friends. Emma’s friend Audrey convinced her to go off the high dive. Yes, the HIGH dive. I figured she would get out to the end, turn straight around and crawl back down the ladder. But, nope. She charged right out to the end, didn’t even slow down, and bloop…into the water she went. (By the way, this pic was not the high dive. But it was the second of three pools Em swam in today. And I’m pretty sure this ended as a bit of a belly-flopper!)

• Addie is jumping off of the diving board during her swim lessons, too. She cries and says “I don’t want to,” then Miss Carrie convinces her that she needs to try, and she does finally do it. Miss Carrie will ask, “Now wasn’t that fun?” and Addie will just nod and say, “Yes. But how many more do I have to do?”  But, I don’t care. She is jumping off into the deep end and getting herself to the side of the pool. That is all I was hoping for. She’ll figure out how fun it is. Eventually.

• Due to the hotness and swimming excursions, our Summer School Project ’09 has been a little light for the past week or so. But I’m being surprisingly (for me!) Zen about the whole thing. Normally I’d be freaking that our schedule is being disrupted, things are not happening like they were planned to be. But I’m okay with all of it. We are flying by the seat of our pants and just enjoying summer while we have it.

• That said, we are learning about money, saving, and opening new savings accounts in “school” tomorrow. Timely since Mommy is also working on a household budget. Again. This makes what? Budget v.16? Yeah, at least once a year I decide we are going to have a budget. We’ll see. Maybe the 16th time’s a charm?

• I do know I’m going to need to pad our grocery budget or Em is going to eat us out of house and home! I thought that only happened with teenage boys? Cripes. The girl is going through a serious growth spurt or something. She is just constantly on the prowl for food. Thankfully she has good eating habits, but she has finished off the baby carrots, bananas, TLC crackers, and almost a gallon of milk. And that is just in the past two days.

• And we’ll have another hit to our budget for next month – we are squeezing in one more little trip before Em has to start school. (Have I mentioned lately that she is going to be a FIRST GRADER? No? Well, she will happily tell you about it if you forget to ask.) We are heading to Chicago and Michigan to see friends and family and J’s little bro get married! All very exciting. So friends if you are around in August, let us know and we’ll try to catch up with you all when we are there.

And that is about all I have time and energy for. Apparently the sun and swimming has done Mommy in as well.  Have a happy Thursday!