Hanging around

We spent so much time out and about when Mike's mom was here that I decided to spend most of the past week at home. We did venture out a couple of days. We spent one full day out shopping for things for school before everything got picked over. I can't believe school starts back in a month. It seems like they just got out. We've stayed pretty busy all Summer and it's going by way too fast for me. I wish I could slow it down a bit. I also can't believe how much was on their lists for this year. According to said list, Joshua needs 50 pencils and Cassie needs 40. I did not buy that many. I'll get more later if they need them but I'm having a hard time believing they'll use that many. They must anticipate them losing a lot of them or something.

I did get to spend some time stitching but can't show pics of anything I stitched. Some are gifts and then I had the pleasure of stitching a model for a local designer. I was really excited about that and am looking forward to stitching more for her in the future. I can't hardly wait until the chart comes out so I can point and say "Oh! Oh! I stitched that!" :). It wasn't a large piece but I was really happy to stitch it.

Yesterday we took the kids to a beachy area on the Rappahannock River that we recently discovered. We spent most of the afternoon swimming in the river. That's the same river that George Washington swam in when he was a boy. Don't believe me? Okie dokie, go here and read for yourself :). There were a lot of people swimming and tubing in the river which quickly made me decide that I need to get one of those tubes too. The water was pretty clear and the current where we were at wasn't bad at all. The water was flowing but it was pretty shallow where we were at. I wasn't however amused with the big signs that say "This river can kill" that were scattered about along with the number of people who have drowned since the 70's. I guess you can't underestimate the power of a flowing river. We had so much fun and I know we'll be spending a lot more time there this Summer since it's only a hop, skip, & a jump away. I wish we would've noticed that area a little sooner.

I don't have too much planned for the first of this week. We're leaving late Thursday for my family reunion so I'll be doing some things to get ready for that.