Summer has come and almost gone.

Hello everyone I hope you are all enjoying the summer, we are, but I think this has been the busiest summer ever! June and July have sped by in a complete blur; I don’t even know where to begin. Zoe’s time with the best Pre K teacher in the world has come to an end. Fortunately Miss Sandee’s room is right down the hall from Kindergarten and Zoe can get hugs anytime she needs them. Our summer has been filled with bible school, bug camp, art camp and horse camps. Sophia has loved her summer dance class and yes we found tap shoes to fit her little square feet. We have enjoyed many birthday parties this summer and swimming with friends. Work has been very busy for Mark and I this summer, Mark has just a few months left till he finishes at Duquesne. We have had great help this summer, Sharon our babysitter has become like family. Sophia will go back to school with Sharon in the fall, she teaches the 2 year old program at day care.

We just had our Relay for Life at Norwin in memory of our friend Grace Ekis. I don’t have any words that can describe how hard it was to carry on without her. Grace’s family led us this year with their unwavering courage and poise. Our children showed us at every turn that life is beautiful and that it is all about this moment, the moment that we are in right now! It looks like the “Amazing Grace” Team will donate $10,000 to the American Cancer Society this year in memory of Grace. I’m so proud of each and every person who participated with us all 170 of them, 40 families! It’s hard to believe the summer is winding down so quickly. We will spend the rest of the month preparing for kindergarten, uniforms and school shoes wow that went fast.

I have to add one final thing most of you know Butterscotch the virtual horse was a very popular toy in our house. Well Butterscotch met with a small mishap in June her tail was broken off! So we called Santa’s workshop (Hasbro division) and asked how to get it repaired. Well, we were told there was no way to repair the tail, we would have to follow the Butterscotch return policy. Ok so what did we need to do, we were told we had to decapitate our beloved Butterscotch and send her head back in a box that they would provide for us! Let me just tell you how much fun Mark had with that one. Please see photos! We had to put Butterscotch’s headless tailless body out for the trash, many cars slowed down as they went by our house that morning! We are also still waiting for our new horse to arrive because they don’t make Butterscotch anymore, so we are waiting on a new black and white pony. I think Hasbro’s return policy falls under the cruel and unusual category for sure. Well good bye until next month.


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