It's been a long time. We've been keeping busy - up north a few times, lots of play dates with friends. Today is Tuesday so we did our usual: Noodles and the library. Tomorrow starts the park days with our homeschooling group. We meet at different parks in the Milwaukee area through the summer.

Eric and I have been planting around here. We have an apple tree, raspberries, grapes and a small garden that's starting to come up. Yesterday the kids and I went out side to work on weeding. Kyle got a glove out to pull up the pokey weeds. He declared weeding more fun than video games!

Jack will be one next week. He's very determined to get what he wants, including being cute to get it! He's working on walking too. He's taken as many as 7 steps.

Summer sure improves my mood - not perfect but better. Jack still doesn't sleep well or much but I'm handling it better. Eric and I have been talking about changing things up so the winter so I don't make everyone so miserable. I like a few minutes to myself without kids each day. I need to take vitamins too. I might try some lights this winter, we'll see. Thankfully, we have lots of sun and beautiful weather to enjoy right now:)