Not too much excitement around here lately, but that’s a good thing!  Ben seems to be settling into single life quite well.  He’s making plans to move in with a couple of buddies who are planning on buying a house, and renting a room from them in order to save up some money.  He does his third year apprenticeship in January and February.  Then just one more year to go, and we hope he can take that next fall, and then he’ll be a journeyman carpenter! His boss did give him a $2/hour raise, and he starts back at his radio studio producer job at the end of the month, so I suppose he’ll be back to working 7 days/week again.  Ughh…. better him than me!

Respite care is going quite well for me, but I know now, why women my age don’t have babies!  I find it hard to get any work done with the older child, because the one year old is into everything we try to do, so we have to mostly pray that the baby has a nap!  The weather has sucked, so we haven’t even been able to go for walks, or play outside.  Hopefully that changes soon!

Yesterday I took the dogs to be groomed, and then on the way home we stopped at the off leash park here in town.  I had never gone before, because I didn’t know if they would listen well enough.  But hubby took them on Sunday, and said they did well, and LOVED it, so off we went.  There were probably 10 other people there, and about 2o dogs.  My dogs loved it!!  They had a blast, and ran, and ran, and chased the other dogs.  They were really well behaved!

The puppy in this photo, is Sarah & Jay’s Siberian husky puppy.  They picked her out a few weeks ago, and are visiting her again today.  They take her home August 9. I can’t remember her name, but they named her after the resort they stayed at in Maui when they were on their honeymoon.

Well time for a nap.  Those kids wore me OUT!