Titles are for Losers

Is it just me or does the summer seem like one long (very long) (very very long) string of trips and packing and unpacking and driving and visiting and company and laundry?

(aside: as I am typing this, my son is on the living room floor making a book about Batman and Martha Stewart is on in the background. He comes up to me and asks if he can have macaroni and cheese for lunch. After we determine what time and how many hours and minutes and seconds it will be before lunch, he heads back into the living room. I tell him he could change the channel and put some cartoons on. He shakes his head and tells me that, "Nah, I'm coloring anyway and sort of learning to make chicken.")

Anyway, I don't want it to seem as though I am complaining about the never ending trips and laundry and packing, because I'm not. I kinda love have company and going places. I get very agitated when I have gone too many hours (or days to be honest) without seeing another adult besides my husband (as sweet and handsome and awesome as he is) (also, what's with the parenthesis?) but the laundry, my god, and the folding and packing. I'd like to hire someone to do this part and maybe throw the bags into the trunk so that we may just hop in the car and go. Ta Da.

So future plans include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Thursday- Take LittleJuJu to my moms (in Pennsylvania) where he will spend a week with my stepfather. My mom will be in Martha's Vineyard with the girls celebrating her/their 50 years of being young and my step dad would love the company. Who am I to complain.
• Friday- Drive back home to Ohio, we have a wedding to attend on Saturday. Also we need a babysitter for a few hours to watch the baby. Any takers?
• Sometime next week- Drive back to Pennsylvania to pick the boy up and bring him back to Ohio
• Early July- Drive to Buffalo to visit in-laws and go to Canada from there to Celebrate the 4th of July at Aunt-in-law's lake house (nothing like celebrating your country's independence by celebrating in another country)
• Mid-July- Stay in Buffalo or Canada while son husband and father-in-law take fishing trip for a few days
• Drive back to Ohio
• Entertain family we have not yet seen in month of July? Mom, Dad?

Other things will come up after these have happened. Seriously though, I couldn't imagine just sitting around all summer in our back yard watching the grass grow. Oh right, we also have to probably find a house and move over the summer. I forgot that part. Heh.

What are your summer plans?

Oh...some of you have asked about the hair...it's the same. Just a trim ;) Also...some new pictures from the park up at Flickr...click on my Flickr in the sidebar...don't feel like linking.

Comments

[Hazel Hazel]

I feel for ya. But, I wish I had that problem (too much travelling and too much company.)

[Shann]

Canada, eh? Well, if you are in Southern Ontario, let me know! We'd be happy to have company! (You like sleeping in a tent in the backyard, right? Your baby girl I'll steal to sleep inside with me...I'll trade you for one of the boyz)...

[Becky]

"Learning to make chicken".... that will come in very handy when he learns how to turn the oven on!
I LUV it!

[Tammy]

i will soooo babysit, can we arrange this?

[Linda]

Yay! The boys can cook for themselves while I'm gone :-) I give you a ton of credit, Ju. I'm having a heluva time packing for just myself :-Þ By the way, you have a typo in line three of paragraph 3.
I'll have Tammy meet you here on Friday night, she can ride home with you and babysit on Saturday. She'll find her way back... I'd leave my kids with her before I'd leave them with Martha ;-) Love you Tam!

[MJR]

I always find it useful to think there must be someone out there worse than me.

So next time you pack, think of some poor bas&^%! who goes to China once a month for two weeks at a time....

[Abby (ctmommie)]

How cute! Sounds like August will be lazy for you....you'll need the down time by then! We are trying to plan some trips as well....inexpensive ones that dont require a lot of packing. My daughters still in that stage where shes okay to take places but still requires a lof of sh** I mean stuff to go along with her. I prefer to stay close to home anyway...Abby

[Chris]

So, when I read the aside, I read "...making a book about Batman and Martha Stewart..." and I thought, "hey, what an unusual but cool combination of superheroes".