So how would everyone say their summer was?

[totoro]

I was thinking about this last night as I was lying in bed... [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/faint.gif[/img]

With the change of schedules and vacations... how did everyone do???

I was expecting this summer to be horrible!!! LOL But looking back now I feel really good. Despite spending 4 weeks in Partial Hosp, shut up in a hotel with K. Despite DH business doing poorly, despite my not so dear Father saying he wants to be a part of my kids lives and now not hearing from him for over a month now. Hearing that 2 people I care about have inoperable brain tumors. Dh is still fighting over his passing out in a Chicago cab, the police did beat him up!!! Now they are trying to cover there behinds...
No vacation... a house that needs to be umm, leveled!!! We are working on a second morgtage to start that fun task!!! First the fence...

But despite the yucky things that have happened and continue to happen... I feel positive! We found a PDOC, K is doing pretty well. N is getting the beginnings of help and starting pre-school. We have also found a therapist that might work with N. I am getting along with the in-laws!!!
I love my husband. I am healthy. I think just the fact that K is doing better has lifted so much weight off my shoulders... I always saw myself as a pretty easy going person. Even when we struggle, we have been positive, but when K started downhill it was so much so fast... I had the weight of the world on me... now I see that I have help.

And I have you guy's!!!! [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/kisses.gif[/img]
So even though my summer was uneventful- at least it was positive as far as my girls!!!
I learned a new sport also!!! Wakesurfing... behind our boat it is so much fun...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTY8mrwhOTQ
Here is clip of someone doing it! I am not that good. LMAO But it is so much fun.

So how was everyone else's summer... I hope mostly good and positive.

[Coookie]

Is it fall already???????????????? [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/23_34_2.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/23_34_2.gif[/img]

Serioiusly, All I did this summer was work. I played golf once. [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/23_34_2.gif[/img]

Wonder if I could have an instant replay of summer...think?

Obviously I am going to have to make some changes but for the most part the summer was good (if I remember correctly). Except for the gfg drama...and pain... (which I remember clearly) [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/frown.gif[/img]

I'm glad your summer was good. A lot of positives there and we all know how important they are. [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif[/img]

Hugs

[everywoman]

For my summer vacation I had knee surgery! Twice. First the left, then the right---not replacement but ortho---am trying to hold off replacement a few years. So I have hobbled around all summer. I go back to work tomorrow. The kids come on Wednesday and I am teaching a course I haven't taught in 15 years!

Dh and I celebrated our 20th anniversary. I surprised him with a big Frogmore Stew party and vow renewal. We had about 40 people at the house when he showed up. It was a blast.

Gfg has behaived,as far as I know. He is planning on starting tech college next week. Voc-Rehad is funding it---I won't pay for him to go to school when I couldn't get him to go for free!!

PCson has accepted a job offer closer to his (seperated)wife. He feels it will be better for the baby if he gets to see mom and dad everyday and not have to travel 4 hours one way for visitation. He is trying to sell his house now and has an offer in the other town contingent upon the sell of the beach house.

PCdaugher has moved into a garage apt. we own about a block from us. She will return to her old job at the insurance agency and to school and dance after a summer of learning the grass isn't greener on the other side of the fence.

Overall a good summer. But I'm looking forward to fall.

[tiredmommy]

Our summer has been good overall. We've been very busy & I'm looking forward to school starting after Labor Day so I can have some quiet time. Duckie has done well and grown up quite a bit. She's really becoming a kind & empathetic young lady.

[Wiped Out]

This seems like a tale of two summers for me.

Gfg started off so rocky and almost had to be hospitalized and now has really turned things around and is doing so much better (for my gfg).

As for me I got to spend lots of time w/gfg at the pool (except for August-it hasn't stopped raining). [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/beach.gif[/img]

It was also somewhat of a restful summer as 5 of the weeks gfg was in some sort of day camp. This was much needed for him and for us. [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/dance.gif[/img]

I also did a lot of reading-something I haven't done in a long time and I love it! [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/reading.gif[/img]

Pc was busy much of the summer w/her scholarship program which was good for her.

We also took our first family vacation which was interesting to say the least.

Overall I would say it was a good summer. We have two weeks off yet (although I will start to get my classroom ready sooner). I'm just praying it's a better school year for gfg than last year was.

[guest3]

hmmmmmmmmmmmm the summer started with GFG II in hospital and it's ending with d/h in hospital and our whole life upside down.

We have not been to the beach once and we've only been to the pool a handful of times. However GFG I got to go to Daytona Beach for a week but he did not enjoy it.

One BBQ, a funeral and no vacations. Makes for pretty sad scrap book pages!

Pretty sad summer. [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/beach.gif[/img]

[flutterbee]

Did summer happen already? I must have missed it. [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/rofl.gif[/img]

[totoro]

Aww Heather!!! I know some of the board completely missed the summer. You have had a rough time. I am sorry!!!
For us we still have a couple weeks before school starts... I just keep reading that some of the kids are heading back to school ALREADY!!! SO I was wondering how everyone felt at this point???

This was my first true summer as a warrior mom, family om meds, with a PDOC, with a DX etc!!!

I guess those things made it all a bit better. LOL

[hearts and roses]

Well, technically, it's not over yet! I heard a radio announcer start to say, "Well, now that summer is coming to a clos..." and I hit that button so fast! I am not willing to give up on Summer just yet! LOL

But, I'd have to say that, aside from gfg's suicidal thoughts and hospital stay, it was a good summer overall. H started building our second floor, PC has done wonderfully at her extern, I was able to get away for a couple of long weekends with my girly friends & sister, and gfg has learned a lot about herself and I think is making the best of her counseling FINALLY.

We're going on a vaca to visit PC in VA next week and then we're zipping to my sister's in WV to ride the rapids, gfg is coming with us and it will be our last hurrah before gfg starts school and we all fall into our Fall schedule and prepare for winter (ugh - I HATE even saying this).

But I will relish in the warm days and cool nights for as long as I can. I even cleaned out our fire pit the other day to ready it for evenings spent on the patio in cooler weather. I resisted the urge to buy Mums the other day and instead bought marked down end of season perennials! I transplanted some things and cleaned out my gardens to spruce them up and bought new bird feeders and seed for the yard. I think this has been a nice summer, and it isn't over yet!

[witzend]

It sucked. We haven't gone anywhere or done anything. DH has been begrudgingly doing projects for me. Not big ones, things like actually mowing the lawn and trimming the edges without being asked. But he has been withholding affection for it.

It's been cold and raining most of the time. We get two or three weeks of cloudy rainy days in the 60's, then we get two days in the 90's. It's nearly
September and we haven't had two full weeks of sun put together! The corn isn't growing. The tomatoes are green.

We have a three day vacation in about a month. It's east of the mountains, so I hope it will be sunny. I hope DH will have his head out of his hoo haw by then.