Summer continues...

After last week, this past weekend was a breath of fresh air.  Vince was able to fix our plumbing problem Friday morning before he left for work eliminating the stinky water smell and the need for a plumber which made our day start so much better!  When he got home from work that night, we had our usual pizza and a movie night.  Bella chose the Ramona & Beezus movie which was really great, but it had me crying like a hormonal pregnant lady throughout.  There was a lot of Daddy/Daughter fun times that really made me miss my Dad, but it also made me remember all the fun I had with him too.  At the end though, when he danced with his little girl at a wedding, I was a snotty, teary mess.  These hormones are intense!

On Saturday, Vince took Bella to the pool where she conquered two of her biggest fears... the diving board and the water slide.  Now she can't get enough of either!  It's quite amazing really because she went from being terrified to even consider it, to doing each 10 times with determination.  I gotta say, I'm way impressed.  That night, B spent the night with her grandparents so that Vince and I could go see "Legally Blonde" at Jen's theatre.  We had box seats, and the show was amazing and super hilarious!  Loved it!

Sunday was a low key day for me.  V took B to the pool early, and I stayed home to finish a VF project and just relax.  It was nice, and the outfit I was working on, turned out really adorbs which always makes me happy.  The rest of the day was spent doing a little yard work, and running a few errands in order to prep for the week.  All in all, it was a quiet Sunday.

Now onto this week... It has been good and bad, but such is life.  The pool is closed on Mondays, so Bella and I spent the day reading, sewing, painting, and cleaning.  Her room is still in progress due to the fact that I haven't sold the sleeper sofa yet, but I may have an offer, so fingers crossed that it may be out of here by the weekend.  I am so ready to paint her new room and set it all up for her so that I can then move on to readying the nursery for Mr. Franklin <3  Tuesday was a fun day.  We picked up B's friend Marty in the morning, went to Discovery Place, had lunch, and then were pool rats for the rest of the afternoon.  The girls had a blast, and it reminded me of being a kid and spending my days at Wyndyke country club all summer.  Wednesday.  Well Wednesday started out ok with a trip to the bank.  Let me back up a bit... During the play date the day before, Marty and Bella were discussing Monster High dolls, Marty's passion, and during this discussion, Bella decided that she really wanted one.  I told her that was fine, but she had to use her own money.  When we got home from the pool, she proceeded to dump out the contents of her piggy bank onto a towel, and then she dragged it into the living room where she was going to count out $25 to purchase a MH doll.  I told her we would take her change to the bank in the morning to the change machine to turn it into paper money, and then she could use $25 to get her MH doll, but the rest she had to deposit into her savings account to which she happily agreed.  So we went to the bank, and the kid had $86!  So I let her keep $26 and the remaining $60 she put in her account so that, her words not mine, her money could grow.  (We watched a Biz Kidz episode on PBS the day before on compound interest and it seemed to sink in.)  She is all about saving right now, so I am certainly going to encourage the hell out of this habit!  She picked out a MH doll, and couldn't  be more happy.  Here is where things begin to fall apart... Once home, I was doing a little VF work when Vince messaged me that a huge client had just fired him and he was extremely bummed.  This has been a very difficult client from the start, and Vince has done nothing but jump through hoops for them from the start, so to say that he was disappointed is an understatement.

Well, to get my mind off of that, I decided to make Bella a little carrying case for her new MH doll that she had asked for earlier that day.  I designed it myself, picked material, and knocked it out in less than an hour. Well, I guess it wasn't exactly what she imagined so she wasn't as thrilled about it as I would have liked which immediately hurt my feelings.  We had a little tiff about it, in which she went to her room and slammed the door, and I went to my room and cried for a brief moment.  After some deep breaths, and a bit of clarity, I came up with a solution.  I gave her one of my favorite zippered pouches from when I was a kid for her to use to keep accessories for her dolls in, and I solved the issue she had with her new bag, which she now loves.  Whew... crisis averted.  By the time we solved all of that, Vince's client had rehired his firm post a conversation with his boss.  Why this client chose to call Vince instead of the boss lady to let them know of the firing is beyond me, but for now it is has been fixed, thank God!  We ended our evening with noodle night, and on the way home, Bella zonked in the car and Vince carried her straight to bed.  Kiddo was out, and didn't fight it one bit.  Now a little funny moment... At 3 a.m. Bella woke up in tears, and here is why.  She missed "So You Think You Can Dance" because she fell asleep.  She and I watch it together on Wednesday nights because she loves the dancing, and she was devastated thinking she had missed it.  I calmly explained that we could watch it online in the morning, and that I hadn't watched it either so we could watch it together.  Problem solved.  Oh to be 6.5 again.

Now it's Thursday, and we don't have much on the agenda except for maybe an afternoon visit to the pool.  Oh, and my Mom's surgery went fantastically smooth on Tuesday, and the best news of all is that her lymph nodes are clear!  Hallelujah!  Now we can start to put all this mess behind us like it was all a bad dream.

Only 4 more weeks until school starts!  No, I'm not counting or anything... xoxox