The month of July is no sports, can you believe that?? But we have still been very busy. We have had our first green beans and I have yet to can any. The girls go out daily and pick them and cook them right up. And to think we only started sauteing green beans a year ago. Before that we just canned them and ate them in the winter. We had our first zucchini last night. The girls weren't crazy over it, but I really enjoyed it (especially since I never get any green beans).
Tara is keeping me happy with M&M's right now, the way to Mom's heart!! She received an invite to a basketball camp next week. I wish we could make it work, but I don't see any way. Monday Tia gets her mold for her braces. Tuesday the girls both get shots and Wednesday Gene's Mom gets a pacemaker. Maybe next year. I have been getting a daily phone call. Tara likes to know what we are doing every day. I went thru everything that was planned and then ask her what she would like to do with free time. She always replies with play ball. Tonight was my night, we played catch. I wore Tara's batting helmet, just so I wouldn't get another black eye. Tia was playing with us too!
Tia is sucking up to me right now, not sure why, but I'm getting a back rub. Not every day is as good as today. But today is Good!
Have I said I hate digital TV, we lived for 40 plus years with changes to TV and this has to be the worst. Every time we turn the TV on you never know whether you will get the station you would like to watch. Tara loves our IPTV station with cartoons. She hasn't had it on her TV in the living room all week. I got a panic phone call at work letting me know. Not that there was anything I could do about it at work. You can get that station in the kitchen, along with channel 5, but you have to watch 23 in the living room. I repeat...@?#$$!
I finally got the windshield in the escape changed, is had a pretty nasty crack in it. The guy did it that we bought a trampoline off of. He still had part of the trampoline, so I stopped and picked up the rest of it. The side netting. I told them probably the only reason we would put it up would be to play with a ball on the tramp. Today has been a big day for Tia, as she is making the cross into adulthood :)
When I got home from work on Wed to get Tara and take her to tumbling, Tia was talking to a boy on the phone. I'm not sure I am ready for this. I made a chicken crock pot dish to have before tumbling and no one was crazy over it. Guess I can pitch that recipe. It had pineapple and the pineapple was terrible. Jeff stopped and got the pickup, he is moving this week, I think from Cedarfalls to Waterloo. I don't have the new address yet. He should be able to do it in one load, he hasn't needed much.
Ragbrai (bike ride across Iowa) was this past week. It was a strange week of weather. They went from Greenfield, Truro, St Charles, St Marys, Martensdale and onto Indianola (they call it the century loop). It was raining first thing in the morning and I think that slowed the riders down. They did make the comment Truro was the first place they found coffee. Gene worked at the church selling coffee, cinnamon rolls and Gatorade. He couldn't believe all the people. Tia also helped, Tara slept thru it all.
Tia had her second appt with the orthodontist. I guess I haven't blogged on the first one. He let us know that her adult eye tooth on the right is missing. He isn't sure if she lost it or never had it. I am going with the bad children's dentist that she had. He gave us 3 options of adjusting her teeth, 2 involve lots of money and pain. We aren't rich and went with the cheap one with the least amount of pain. Her teeth probably wouldn't need braces if she still had her eye tooth. She also has a lisp when she talks sometimes. Not sure if this will help that or we need to have some speech therapy??
At long last I got my monthly haircut, it must have grown super fast this time. I couldn't wait. And....Tia got her first beauty shop do. She had a month to look for a picture of what she wanted, she had one and got it. We are lucky Darcy knows how to use a razor. Wow was there a lot of hair on the floor. It is cute and it has to be a lot cooler. I haven't seen her in a ponytail since, not sure if she can. Unbelievable I haven't seen a dozen pics of her taken by...yes her. Tia loves to take pics of herself.
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