Well, as Jen so helpfully pointed out, it’s been a good while since I last blogged. (BTW, Jen, I think you left your sunglasses at my house last night…I’m pretty sure they’re yours.) I don’t know why I’ve not blogged lately, other than I’ve been pretty busy. Busy with day-to-day things, and the kids, mostly. Chris came home about a week and a half ago, and has worked every day but one since then. Tomorrow should be his last day for a while, and then he will be on his long break. That’s seven days off in a row. It should be very nice. We are going to go to the lake, where my parents are camping, a couple or three days. Those should be fun days. Lots of fishing, skiing, boating, tubing, and playing in the dirt. That last one was for the kids, not me and Chris. Then, after that, we are going to spend a couple of days doing a project in the backyard. We’re going to make a fenced-in playground area for the kids with a swingset, sandbox, and playhouse. We are also going to complete the railing on the deck, and add some patio furniture and maybe a grill. It should be really nice when it’s all finished. After all of that is done, I am going to have to tackle cleaning out the pool. It’s a real mess. In a couple of weeks, my fourteen (almost fifteen)-year-old brother, Lucas, is going to come live with us for a while. He is going to help me with a few more smaller projects while he’s staying with us. It’s nice to be able to do more of the things that I have been wanting to do around the house, now that the kids are a little bigger.
My brother, Aaron, and his wife, Tasha, are going to start on their way home tomorrow. They should be here on Friday. Aaron is in the Air Force, and they are stationed in Omaha, Nebraska. We haven’t seen them in a year, since they didn’t get to come home for Christmas this year. I’m really excited to see them. Jason, my nineteen-year-old brother, is coming home over the weekend, also. So, it’s going to be the first time in a long time that the whole family is going to be together. I’m really looking forward to it.
What else has gone on in my absence from blogging?
Well, we got some fish. Four goldfish, and an algae-eater. They are named Goldie, Nemo, Oscar, Frosty, and Mud Puppy. They all are distinctly different from each other, and so we refer to them by name. Me and the kids love watching them. I thought that they were pretty neat.
Okay, well, that’s a short update, but I really have to go to the bathroom right now. I promise to return later, and start blogging regularly again. I know that you people depend on my blogging to keep you entertained. (That should be read dripping with sarcasm.)
So, until then, Harmon…out! (For all of you non-American Idol watchers, that was a humorous play on Ryan Seacrest’s signature sign-off. Ha ha.)