august 2009
To enjoy our last full week of no school, Grandma Lott thought it would be fun to go to the “beach” at Cacapon, and get in some swimming. I love these places more than pools for some reason, maybe the beautiful surroundings of nature I guess, it’s just more enjoyable, even with the sand. After being there, maybe an hour, we had some rain roll through. Then it left, and we waited 20 minutes after the last thunder, and went to get in, and five seconds later it thundered again, followed by a heavy downpour, which was a lot of fun. It made the day eventful for sure, and it was a fun memory.

We then stopped by “Bath” on the way home, where George Washington would bathe. All the water comes from natural springs, and they’re supposed to be healing waters. Nevertheless, it’s out in the open, so one must wonder if there was any privacy?

august 2009
Since laundry isn’t my forte’, I’ve never really cared to keep up on it. But since Jarom has been traveling quite a bit these last few weeks, which we miss him a ton, but are grateful for the work, I find myself keeping up on laundry, and projects are getting done. I spent three days cleaning out my closet, which is a decent sized room, which has been packed with school stuff, toys, and anything that doesn’t belong in other rooms, thrown into my closet. I organized my clothes, and can see the floor! I’m wearing clothing I haven’t seen in a long time because it was trapped under piles of other things, so I feel like I have new stuff! It’s great! So, since it’ll never happen again, and I don’t care if it does, I took a photo of my empty laundry baskets, because laundry was caught up-only that evening everyone put their dirty clothes in there, so it lasted for a couple of hours. But it happened once in my life, and I’ll take it!

august 2009
We checked out a book from the Library that all of us girls have loved, called Fanny. Even though the girls have more babies and American Girl dolls than one house should hold, we were all inspired to make these dolls together, as a special memory, and we would have our “homemade dolls” instead of “store bought dolls.” Anyhoo, after about three half days of work, they were completed, and I’m done doing projects for now, which is good, because school starts for us which is a whole other project, but I love it!

So we were happy to have Grandma Lott come over after church last week and have dinner with us, and spend time with us. She listens to all the girls talk to her at once, brought them the cute small American Girl books, read to them the “Fanny” book, since she hadn’t heard of it, and helped tuck them in. We love the Lotts, and are grateful to have them near us, especially since the nearest grandparents are 7 hours away. Thanks Grandma Lott!