Sunset at White Rock Lake

We had a short and sweet (and seriously the most laid back relaxing family photo shoot ever!) at the lake on Saturday night.  Kendall was on her best "take pictures of me looking like this, now like this, now pouting like a princess, etc, etc." behavior so we took her to Monster Yogurt where she proceeded to fill herself with as much sugar as possible, and we prayed that the sugar crash would come quickly.  On the way home, she continued to ask about watching the "sun sinking into the lake" and since it was only about 10 minutes til that time, we obliged.  It was pretty cool family time.  The sweetest thing was when she individually, and very graciously thanked both of us for taking her to see the sun set.  It really was important to her and we really do need to say yes to her more often.  

Homegrown Pepper!!

We actually thought we got a red pepper plant, and this pepper was picked too early, but still pretty cool!!  

1st Day of Camp - the Aftermath!

The fact that the first day of camp resulted in an actual NAP is enough of a thumbs-up for me ... but she said she had a great time too!  

1st Day of Lamplighter Summer Fun Camp!

As usual, my "helicopter mom" fears about the carpool proved to be a waste of my energy.  I had no information to give Kendall about her new camp - except that she will "definitely have fun."  (please let the child have fun so I'm not a liar)  No info about who her teacher is or who might be in her class .... and I was supposed to just drive her up to a new school and kick her out of my car??  Yep.  She handled it like a little pro.  A really sweet teacher opened the door, saw her name tag, said very enthusiastically (a tad too enthusiastically for my taste at that ungodly hour of the morning), "HI KENDALL!!  Are you ready to have fun at camp?"  And Kendall equally enthusiastically yelled, "YES!!!," hopped out of the car and closed the door.  No "Bye Mommy."  Not even a wave.  I frantically rolled down the passenger side window and spat out the words, "byemonkeyiloveyouhavefun!!" as I was ushered through the carpool line.  I'm pretty sure they were unheard or ignored by my kid (also pretty sure the teachers were trying hard not to roll their eyes at me).



The time it took to get from our garage to the carpool drop off point was 55 minutes.  We had to leave the house at 7:15AM, which  meant I got up at 5:45 to get myself ready for work and then got Kendall up at 6:30.  These are ugly hours to me, but getting to work from her school only took 10 minutes and I am here SO early I have time to update the blog!  :)  I do see another cup of coffee being added to my morning routine (perhaps in the car), but I suppose I'm ready to join the ranks of regular school mornings and carpool lines.  I also suppose I don't have a choice in the matter.