Well, I haven't posted for a long time, because I've been a bit busy, and a bit lazy. Any way, I'm still feeling a bit lazy, so there will not be any pictures with this post. (Even though I have some, maybe next post I'll just put the pictures up so I can be lazy again. Sometimes my genius amazes me.)

We've had a great summer, Eric was sad to know that it was over. But he came home from the first day of fourth grade and said, "I love the first day of school." Apparently though he does not love homework because the third day of school he hadn't finished it and had to stay in from recess to finish. (serves him right for telling me he didn't have homework.) Life teaches great lessons.

I've not had the chance to sit and eat bonbons and watch soap-operas yet (Eric's been in school for four years and I still haven't) I've been busy bottling peaches and making raspberry jam, yummy.

Robert's off today helping at Heber Valley Girls Camp with a stake service project. Last Sat. he hiked to the summit of Timp. You should ask him about it. He's been wanting to do it for years but every time we get to the lake I flop down on the ground and refuse to get up for at least an hour, so he really hasn't had the chance to get up there. Of course last time I hiked Timp Eric was three months old. He didn't even invite me this time. Tomorrow I am going to Swiss Days with Amy, and tonight Julie is having her baby shower. And HE's not invited. (That will show him.)

A big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Regan and Kaia. And a belated big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Rylee. Happy first birthday you three!

Yesterday...

I can't believe summer is almost over! Time seems to move so fast. Robert has been busy bottling beans. I've been helping but since I twisted my ankle it's hard for me to stand much. 38 pints so far.

Yes, I twisted it three weeks ago, the same ankle that always gets hurt. I've been hoping that it would get better, but I think I may need to go to the Dr. Who of course will tell me what I already know, "stay off of it until it gets better." or even better, "wear this HUGE black boot, so everyone will ask what happened, and you can look stupid at the same time. " It's not even swollen, so I don't know what they would do if I decided to go get it examined, except charge me $20 for a copay.

Anyway everyone else here seems to be healthy. Eric claims to now "hate" school. He still claims that he is not a "servant" or a "golem". It took him five hours to practice his piano yesterday, and he wined about not getting breakfast from 8pm to 9pm (which is when he went to bed, under duress.) He actually did have scrabbled eggs at 10am but he claims that was his lunch. I don't know what he calls all the things he at between lunch and dinner because I called the eggs breakfast and those lunch, but whatever, I still hate wining. At least as an adult I can call it venting, which is what I'm doing here.

My primary class is behaving fairly well, so I guess I'm done "venting" for now. Perhaps today will be a better day, but it doesn't look promising.