I don't make monkeys; I just train 'em!

32 days left of summer vacation! What. Is it weird that I have a paper chain up already?

I still love summer but it is getting to that point now where it miiiiight be almost time for a change.

My kids are just so wild. WILD! It's like we turned this invisible corner and they all turned into chimpanzees. Matt came home from work yesterday and the house was in shambles and he was like "Er...hey guys, what'd you do today?" Hello, it's summer and we have four chimpanzees. All with minds of their own. Usually we leave the house but we've left the house multiple times every day this week doing way too much stuff...

Diapered but otherwise neglected baby, scavenging for pizza

Exhibit A: Monday: out with asphalt contractor while our sidewalk was being replaced; waterpark; helped a YW

Exhibit B: Tuesday: I worked; then got a much needed new phone; went to another waterpark

Exhibit C: Wednesday: Lars went to a summer preschool thing; another waterpark; piano lessons; a few emergency groceries because somehow I never remember to buy enough milk or bread; Mutual (ugh, I feel like hyperventilating just looking at that list)

Exhibit D: Thursday: Cannot go on

Upside down pic of what I recently found shoved behind Theo's dresser. Every mysteriously missing IEP and report card from third grade...

...and so on this the fourth day I just needed to lie flat on my back and drink water to recover from the previous 3 days. So I did that, and while I did that, the chimpanzees tore the house apart. #worthit

So, Waterpark Week was put on hold for a day and I'm so very glad. Because after spending the morning flat on my back drinking water, I worked yesterday afternoon/evening and went to the grocery store...

(Where they are selling products such as this: sugar cereal shaped like tiny pieces of toast)

...and I feel that if I had done those two things AND a waterpark then I might have turned into a chimpanzee also, and then what the heck would Matt do with no one to talk to at all and five animals to take care of by himself.

Today we're going to attempt a waterpark again. Wish me luck! As I typed that last sentence I looked up to see two of the chimpanzees completely naked in the kitchen... unloading the dishwasher. #? #winning 

"I don't make monkeys, I just train 'em!" 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LiFoalqLDvE