Uncle! Uncle! I give in

Am I finally breaking down and hitting away at the keyboard to blog!?! I have avoided this for a while now for two reasons. I"m on the computer too much as it is for work and I hear once you start ...you can never stop. Yet here I am tying away!

This month has been a "milestone" of many at the Chadburn household. Kids are home from school and we have officially made it through our first week of bridge work. I was sick for a day or two and Caleb actually got on my case for not having his worksheets ready... don't really know where he came from, he is much too good of a kid to be from me!

I moved my office home this month as well. I am trying to lighten the work load for the summer while the kids are home but there are so many temptations to keep me from the den... never tried to make popcorn balls before! So many things to do away from my desk I will be amazed if I accomplish much of anything this summer. I have never really been able to stay home with my boys so I am cherishing every second of it! Who cares if we have to substitute steaks for macaroni right!?! In the end they won't ever remember the kind of car I drove or what clothes I wear - it's the memories we are making now that are going to be recalled.

Cooper graduated Kindergarten and has changed his mind about his future occupation. He is now determined to be an archaeologist and follow in Indiana Jones footsteps. The kindergartners all dressed up for graduation and now I can't get him to put down his "Indie Hat". He had planned on being a Cop but after tagging along on the cub scout field trip to the Police Station and hearing that they have to be tasered and get pepper sprayed, he has decided against that chosen career path (even though it means he cant have lights on his truck).

Jayden is turning 4 in a week! I cant believe my baby is going into preschool in a few months. He is such a mischievous little monster and makes life interesting. I cant seem to get one step ahead of the child. This morning he decided to "help" clean the baseboards and I stepped into the hall to squish my sock into a drenched carpet. He was dragging a dripping wet towel around the hall wiping off the boards. There was a full blown creek winding to the bathroom ending with a nice pond on the tile floor. Bless his heart, he tries to help out and is so independent that he jumps in where he sees something he can do. Needless to say, I shampooed the carpets and scrubbed all the baseboards today. (ok I'll admit it they needed done).

Now that baseball season is over and the kids are all home we have tried to start going over to the school a few nights a week and running. The kids have fun throwing frisbee's or playing on the playground while we try an jog around the track. Caleb and Jeremy have decided to run a 5k next weekend!!! Yeah, I have been working on them both for over a year to run with me, it is so much easier when you are accountable to someone else! Hopefully this will help me shed the pound or two (more like ten or fifteen) that I need to lose.

I am so grateful to be home to enjoy this time with my family. I have a pretty awesome husband and kids that I thank Heavenly Father for everyday. I had a very real reminder just over a year ago- time is the one thing on earth we can't save or earn. You get what you get and not a minute more... don't waste a second of it because you don't know when the hourglass will run out!