{Time Flies}

Time really flies.  Whether you are having fun or not, time flies!  But we have mostly been having fun.  Brandon and I have had probably the most social summer of our lives together.  We started out by getting our first babysitter (outside of family) back in May.  And I do have to admit that this babysitter is practically family since she is my cousin's best friend AND first cousin.  So I have known her all her life.  But anyway...
My cousin in getting married so we have attended several pre-wedding parties.

This past weekend my parents had invited the kids to spend the night Friday night and we got an invite to go with some friends to concert in the park.  We had a great time!  Then my (much younger) cousin send me a message to meet her and her friends down at a bar on the square.  Oh Lawzy.  Let me just say that I am SO GLAD I am no longer single.  And I am actually a little bit glad I am no longer young.  I just do not have the energy to put into being young and worrying about guys and clothes and all that.  It has been YEARS since I was in a bar and while it was kinda fun for the hour we were there, it was just so not me.  I felt like everyone was going "WHO is this old lady???"  And to confirm that, my cousins friends asked me if I graduated from a local high school.  I said no and told them that it wouldn't have been possible because I am OLD.  They laughed and said "The first graduating class was from 1995.  You totally could have!  You're not that old."  Well, actually, I AM since I graduated before 1995!!!

Saturday night, we had our Backyard Barbecue group from church over.  Brandon and I learned a lesson about having kids we don't know very well over and our responsibility in supervising.  Let's just say we knew it was going downhill when Lucy, our dog, came running upstairs.  Why was this odd?  Well, because my dogs don't come inside.  Ever.  And I'm not even sure I would know how to coax them inside.  They don't like to be inside. At all.  But here was Lucy running upstairs into my foyer.  And there was Ellie running around in the yard with her shirt off.  Yeah.  Fun night!

I am counting down the days until Ellie starts Kindergarten.  YIKES.  She is so excited.  For that, I am so happy.  I. Will. Not. Be. Sad.  I will, however, worry if she will know how to get to her classroom, know how to unzip her lunchbox, open her own water, not eat her snack for afterschool at lunch, and know to go to afterschool.  I am sure I will find more things to fret over.  But I won't tell Ellie.  And I am sure she will be fine.  I'm also sure that other children have gone to school before her and have survived.  But you know, Ellie is different.  Because she's MINE.