Kids, What Should I Title This?

I find it difficult to write blogs now that we are back to regular, every day life. Our days are full and we have moments of stress, fun, and all the rest all mixed in and it all seems rather mundane. Especially when compared to the 2 months we spent in Europe. I suppose that is real life though. I did research how to move to Switzerland. In case you are wondering the answer is to be independently wealthy.

This week was full of water polo, cross country, horse riding, work, school, and karate. Everyone is mostly healthy again. I am sick and tired of having to take my boot off to drive and then putting it back on to walk and then taking it off to drive and then putting it on to walk. It gets old fast.

I asked the kids how the week went. I got mostly silly answers:

Lucette: "Ummm. No, don't write Um. No. No. No. NOOOOO. NOOOOOOOOhohohohohoho. I don't know. Azure made good brownies period."

Azure: "Good week. Hard week. Good water polo game. Fun Saturday. This week was delicious."

Cormac: "Good."

This Saturday I told Lu she needed to clean out her bird cages. Loki (our sometimes not so friendly parrotlet) was on top of his enclosure and Lu couldn't get him back inside. She was rather distressed by this and wanted help. I told her just to leave him be; that he would go back inside when he was ready. She looked me dead in the eyes and said, "Mom, that won't work. Loki can't close the door." She was so exasperated. I suppose that is fair.

Cormac had a cross country meet on Tuesday and did well. It was a long course. He also had a water polo game this Saturday where he scored 4 of the 6 goals.

Lucette has spent a lot of time begging me to let her have riding lessons more often. She has also spent a lot of time begging to be called Olivia. I refused. So she wanted us to call her Lucy. The thing is, I always thought we would call her Lucy when we named her, but she is just so much more of a Lu than a Lucy. She also is in a phase where she gets very upset when she is ignored or interrupted. That is what the face above is all about.

Azure had a good week with lots of karate. Azure also had a water polo game. She scored one of the goals as well and it was awesome. She is number 4 in the pictures here.

Ammon is busy with work. He is often in meetings pretty much 8 hours straight. I think he is good at his job though and that he is still enjoying it okay. I am busy with my business. We are launching a 12 week eating disorder intensive program soon and that has me a little busy along with seeing clients. I am nearly caught up though and that is a relief. The kids' activities keep me completely busy the rest of the time. Next week promises to be the same. I am really hoping to get healed up soon to get in a few Fall hikes if possible.

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