Last Saturday needs to not be documented for a variety of reasons so we’ll just skip to after we came home from a baptism I jumped on the mower trying to beat the rain. The kids were in charge of picking up the lawn and they were awesome about it-very cooperative. I’d been around the pool once and they needed a place to put the baseball net (that we never use for baseball but it works pretty good to hang towels on) so I come around the pool again-now I’m 2 mower widths away and I decide I’ll just zip back and forth right there real quick then they can drag the baseball screen into that spot I’ll be on my mowing way and they’ll be done and get to go in the house. 👍🏻 perfect.
Not quite.
Seth was riding with me (just in case they’d missed a stick or something he could jump off and get it for me) we were on our way! After I while I sent him in the house to tell his brothers we were ready for them to move the trampoline. I kept mowing and shortly after he came running up to me screaming “Mom. The pool is leaking. Mom The pool is leaking the pool is leaking.” What?!?!
OK, so I shut off the mower and went over to look and sure enough about a foot up water is spewing out! It looked like a faucet was turned on. 😩 After all those weeks of trying to get it cleaned out…
Such a bummer 😩😩
And it was 100% my fault, I flung something into it when I just went back-and-forth real quick mowing. I know better, we always mow so it blows away from everything. But I didn’t and it pierced that metal side and the liner like a bullet.
The boys were trying to duct tape the outside edge, not going to work. We called Isaac, and he had them shove a plastic bag through it from the inside, until he got home and assessed the situation, he decided to go to Walmart and buy one of those waterproof patches. Thankfully, it seems to be working. Or mostly working. I’m not sure I actually don’t even like blogging about it. It just makes me sick, so frustrated.— Why couldn’t I have done that when it was still green? Then we could’ve just drained it and started over…
Anyway, I am thankful that the patch does seem to be working.
Isaac started in on this ongoing toilet project Saturday…is it bad if I admit I’m thankful I haven’t had to help too much…😬 but it’s not done yet either.
And he hung me out to dry on bedtime but that goes back to the part of the story that needs to be skipped.
And he hung me out to dry on bedtime but that goes back to the part of the story that needs to be skipped.
Sunday if there’s anything significant I can’t remember it. He went to the other wards ward council so I was on my own getting the troops to church but thankfully they’re getting big enough I really only have to worry about Seth and Addi then just chase the others out the door. Cannon is last every single week—it makes me a little nervous about early morning seminary next year. (Sigh)
Monday, I took Cannon down to Jeff’s City to the “airway orthodontist” recommended by the hygienist who cleaned his teeth… We didn’t have to leave early, but it was all day!!! I really liked the guy, but I think I’ll take him to the orthodontist appointment I already had made for him up here and if the treatment plan would be the same I think we’ll save ourselves four hours of driving every six weeks. But if he was gonna do something different, I would consider taking him down to that guy because I felt like he was really good.
All I know about what happened here was Colt slid into helper #1 (and maybe developed some empathy for Cannon) but they got another couple posts up for the building. They also mixed in some fun and built him a sword.
I ordered pizza while down in Jeff’s City and picked it up here a couple hours later as we came through town. We had time to eat it—but that’s about it—then we were headed to baseball. Since I had spent all day with Cannon, I sent Isaac to Lancaster with him and the other kids and I went to Brashear with Tanner. Tanner had a great game! Couple hits, a put out at 2nd base, he even had a fly ball hit to him when he was in the outfield (He didn’t catch it. I’m not sure he knew it was his ball, but I’m just saying he was just involved all game long.) I thought he would have loved it. So afterward I said “Tanner you had a great game, good job, did you have so much fun?!” And he just kinda shrugged and said it was ok. And when Wednesday rolled around he chose to skip his game and go to Valiant activities, (Sometimes I wonder if we’re even related. 😬 Just kidding.) but he didn’t particularly enjoy those either, I asked if he wished he’d played baseball instead and he said “not really.” …ok
I really can’t tell if he likes it or not. But he is grinning in the picture-as long as it goes well I think he likes it in the moment. 🤷🏻♀️
Cann’s game went well too but he said he just walked 3 times so nothing to exciting.
Tuesday the software Isaac ordered for the ECM (not sure on those letters I’ve heard it a hundred times but who says I pay attention?) anyway the software finally came, so we were in business!! He could hook it up to the boat and make his adjustments. We had basically given up on it getting here before they had to go to YM’s camp. But it came so he did his thing and we scrambled to get it put back together and get out to the lake…and we did!
We left about quarter to six…
And you know we didn’t come home until after dark!
It was pretty fun though.
We’re definitely still figuring it out. When I skied the first time the boat got stuck on 9.8mph or something like that on cruise control, so I got up…but it was too slow and I was not very up and fighting so hard Isaac had his head in the screen trying to figure it out Seth was just giving me the hand signals asking if I wanted to speed up. It was all I could to do let go with one hand and give him a thumbs up…twice! Nothing changed. Finally-exhausted from plowing so hard against so much water I just let go. Isaac was like “yeah sorry I couldn’t figured it out-I wished you would’ve given up sooner.” Gee thanks.
I did go one more time and it was fun, the wake was weird -not even at all -but we’re figuring it out. I only remember my back leg getting tired last year but that didn’t happen, instead I went (not very long) until I had a crazy Charlie-horse in my front legs hamstring. I tried to push through it but that wasn’t happening. There’ll be lots more chances for longer runs. Isaac thought it might have been from dragging so hard the first go around. Maybe.
Then it was Isaac’s turn…which meant I needed to drive (truly Cannon should have) but wow—I’m sure it will get better but I HATED being the driver! We’ll see if I get the terminology right-but the old boat had and inboard outboard motor so when you turn the wheel it responded. New boat—not at all. I felt like in those bumper cars you drive when you’re a kid and you spin your wheel and it just spins indefinitely but you don’t turn at all. New boat (inboard motor) responds if the motor’s engaged but every time I’d disengage it we’d just spin wherever the wind blew us—and I was dumb enough to spin the dumb bumper car wheel, while I was trying get lined up with Isaac to pull him straight—it was wildly frustrating! And Cannon and Colton were just chirping away trying to coach me up. Well intended—sometimes even helpful, but…🤯🤯🤯
He actually wrecked (I didn’t know that was even possible) and whacked his knee pretty hard. But he still went again and had a good run.
It is weird on the old boat I could feel him cut and pull against the boat but I only felt it once or twice and barely at all. He wanted a more powerful boat—I think he got it.
So even with Come Follow Me on the drive home by time everyone got showered and ate some 2nd dinner we got to bed around 11:30 or midnight. I got Cannon up for him to go to weights at 6 the next day and that seemed like a pretty quick turn around! I think Isaac actually took him in though because he said something like “Cann wants to go again today.” When he came home, I was like yeah right.
They were going to mow at the lady they minister to’s place. And hopefully the cemetery. We were supposed to pack them up for YM’s camp, they had bikes to fix up for that nights activities. We had things to do!
My friend Connie and I scheduled a little ministering walk-for before I would need to pick up Cannon so I did that and the other kids got in on the sword fun:
I picked him up after my walk when he was done with basketball and we headed to Aldi. The grocery store is constantly put off in the summer but we stopped and grabbed some quick essentials-bread milk eggs cheese, we’ll survive. But when we got home Cann started in on his dad again “Can we go? Can we go?” (It helps when it’s where Isaac wants to be too.) So Isaac asked every single kid and got a yes-but said “ok but we have to ask mom” and then came and asked me. So I have veto power but I’m going against everyone if I use it. No thanks. Instead I just went with it. Maybe someday I’ll be spontaneous, for now I just try to hold on. I threw in more and better snacks this time and off we went with the agreement we would be off the water by 4:00. (We were close—ish but I’m smart enough to know we wouldn’t have been in real trouble time wise until more like 4:45) It was 4:00 and Tanner faked us out AGAIN getting us to think he’d try something, we all want him to try it so bad but he just won’t. He let Isaac pull him with his arms to simulate getting up on the wakeboard but when Isaac let go he sunk and went under (for .5 of a second) and then it was game over. It doesn’t make any sense-you can’t drag the kid out of the pool but he’s so nervous about the lake, because, his words “you can’t touch and you can’t see and you might wreck and get water up your nose” UG, If he ever tries it I think he’ll love it…
Colts pretty close on Surfing.
Isaac did it! I guess his knee’s ok👍🏻
I tried-but I have some work to figure it out. I like a lot of weight on my back leg (skiing) so I wasn’t getting any slack in my rope. Cann-would rather wake board! Anyway we went we had fun, we got back I threw together some grilled cheese and we called it dinner. Oh and Colt invited his buddy Carter last minute to play soccer at YM’s and he came!! Seth crashed pretty early that night but Addi fell asleep on the drive home from the lake and I let her stay asleep and that was a mistake! She was full of energy!
Thursday Cann went into weights and I jogged the loop. Then we got him, Colt, and dad off to YM’s camp and we’ve just been hanging out. They’ve had a ton of rain at camp 👎🏻 I guess our boys want to just come home tonight but Isaac didn’t drive. (soaking wet sleeping bags but Isaac said knew it wasn’t going to be good when they started setting them up while it was raining…)
It’s not very warm but we’ve been in the pool both days -until Addi gets cold which is way too soon for Tanners liking. I did take these kids up to the “5 cent skittle” Amish store. We didn’t find 5 cent skittles but we did buy 10 cent sour patch kids so it didn’t disappoint. But we also found out they are closing because they’re moving. Bad for our sweet teeth—good for our dental bills.
Anyway I think that’s about it. Oh except somebody (acquaintance from church) called to see if I/we wanted to adopt/rescue/whatever 4 baby raccoons that are abandoned at his neighbors…🤣 um no, read last weeks post, my people were out hunting them, or how bout there’s one in the yard right now Belle hauled home. We’re good. 🤣
Oh And I totally lied about Sunday! Sunday our cute friend Nan spoke in church as one of the stake leaders- we got home and Isaac was looking up some talk she referenced on YouTube. I hadn’t heard anything about it so we decided that part of her talk must have come when Addi had talked me into taking her to the bathroom for a false alarm. She just wanted a break from sitting quietly on the bench! But anyway Isaac finds the BYU speech on YouTube but I can’t find it on byuspeeches but I could find the pdf. Weird. But it’s called Unleashing the Dormant Spirit by F Enzio Busche and it’s really good he had 20 points to ponder and “seek identification” with. They were pretty good I made a note on my phone but I don’t know how I really want to study them yet. But anyway it sent me on a little Elder Busche hunt where I’ve listened to some of his other talks, I have more to go but that might be a weird thing about me but I do love a good spiritual rabbit hole!!
