Summer busy = Good busy

I have been really busy.  Just the way a summer should be I think.  So let me recap for you the last couple weeks.

T was asked by our youth pastor several months ago to go and participate in a leadership camp called Super Summer.  We talked about it and since T thinks that maybe someday he wants to be a Youth Minister and the camp was being held at a Baptist College we thought that T would benefit.  So off to camp for 5 days he went and learned a lot and he is still interested in Youth Ministry.  T left on a Tuesday Morning and S was leaving on Thursday morning for Colorado w/ her BFF Erika and Erika’s Dad for a family reunion vacation in Colorado.  She went to Denver and Estes Park and lots of other places.  She was able to do some white water rafting, serious hiking(5 hour trips), went to the Wizard of Oz Museum in Kansas and since she just got home last night I am sure we will hear more about all that she got to do.  We are forever thankful to Ron and Erika for taking her along for a trip of a lifetime.  She called to check in when she first got into the “mountains” I asked her if they were pretty?  And she replied “Pretty doesn’t even begin, God out did himself on this painting!  You should see how many pictures I have taken”    I would totally insert Pic here but she lost her camera.  Hopefully it is in “family’s car” and will be mailed back to us soon!  T came home from Super Summer very pumped up and excited about all he had learned.  He was really excited when his Grandpa Mike asked him to help roof his house.  (I am so proud of him for the giving and loving heart he has.)  Not many 16 yr olds would want to go and help let alone do it alone in the heat but he did and he is really proud of the work they were able to get done.  Unfortunately GM got sick on Saturday and went down w/ a double inner ear infection.  Roofing has stopped for the time being.  T came home from GM’s and said his ear hurt too.  (I am thinking yeah right, GM has an ear infection and you want an excuse to not clean your room)  Then I look and the boy has crap oooooooozing out of his ear, GASP!!!   I know I know what a terrible parent I am but really the boy looked fine other than the grossness coming out of the ear.  So off to the ER we went.  So embarrassing to go to the ER on a Saturday w/ a 16 yr old for an EAR INFECTION I mean really what kind of mom doesn’t notice this stuff?   But nobody laughed and he not only had inner ear but outer and ruptured eardrum.  Now I get WORST PARENT of the year award.  Prayers for both are appreciated, and a little something for the guilt gut that I now have would be great! 

T and S are both leaving on Monday morning to go on a youth mission trip to the Baptist Children’s Home here in Illinois.  So there is much packing and preparation going on for that.  We may or may not let Taylor go depending on how well he does today w/ the ear infection. 

Since S was out of town, would be home for a couple of days and then off again I decided that it would be a good time to redo her room.  Well Since I don’t go upstairs often (teenagers live up there and it always causes a month long cleansing to get over my trips upstairs)  Her room was a mess!  So we got it all cleaned up and picked some paint (pale Sunshine which is according to everyone but me is just white paint).  Her room is in the upstairs, has these really cool angled walls and ceiling that are a real pain to paint and would cost a fortune to have dry walled so we decided that painting the ugly mismatched paneled walls would be much much easier and a lot cheaper.   YES YOU CAN PAINT THAT AWFUL STUFF and make it look AHHHmazing!!!!  I had done it before several times and have learned in my many adventures some tricks to make it a bit easier.  I will share those tips w/ all in another post/tutorial.  We had been thinking about doing her room for sometime so we had been buying, gathering, and searching for stuff for a while.  Her favorite color is yellow somewhere in the canary to neon range, and that was not going on the walls.  So we compromised and are painting her furniture Thai Silk which is that color between canary and neon we think.  I hope to finish it entirely this week while she is gone and will post pics then.   I hope that all is well w/ you all and you are working on your happy place!  Have a good day for this is the day the Lord has made!