The Burgess Bunch hasn't stopped being fun kids to hang around nor do they lack entertaining blog material. However, their packed schedules have kept their Mom very busy...and very tired! So to catch you up...
Everyone finished the school year alive---Ian ended the year with all As and Bs and is promoted to 3rd grade! Will will go to 4K and Maggie will go to the 2year old class in August! During the last month, I spent most days at award programs, class parties, field trips, and music programs. Add in church and baseball and I am pretty sure my car never stopped driving around Spartanburg.
We started summer off on the right foot by spending Memorial Day weekend as a family in the lowcountry.It really doesn't get much better than that! The kids were anxious to see Hana & Poppa--and so was I!
We started our trip to Edisto Beach with a stop at King's Market. The King family is my second family and the kids go in like they own the place. I am pretty sure Ms. Bonnie & Mr. Rett have a hard time making a profit with freeloaders like mine! The kids went right in and got an orange soda and a large bag of Mr. Rett's boiled peanuts (in case you don't know, they are the BEST peanuts in the entire world!). Aunt Munkey caught up with us there and after a quick visit, we were off to the Beach!
The weather & water were perfect. The kids saw lots of jelly balls that had washed up on the shore. We saw 3 live horse shoe crabs and found 2 skeletons. They had a blast and we were able to relax & enjoy them ---except for when a wind gust blew our umbrella down the beach and nearly impaled a lady...I was running & screaming for her to look out. She was so busy reading Fifty Shades of Grey that she nearly was speared to death! Oh Fifty! :)
The boys went fishing 2 days of our trip. They went to my Papa's pond and caught about 35 fish, and because Josh took them, there were no decent pictures! Will learned to cast the rod&reel and managed to pull in a "Daddy" fish that was about 8 pounds. He was so proud! He also threw his entire rod in the pond, which Josh had to wade in to get! Maggie & I spent time with my Nanny the first day they fished because she was "Hawt" (hot) and didn't want to "do dat fish."
She instead wanted her scheduled "naked time." I told you before that she is a major streaker---during Spring Break, she got naked in the Chick-Fil-A play area. Aunt Munkey & I had taken her there for her birthday and while the kids were playing, Chrissy & I were chatting with a friend of our family who is a Baptist preacher. To my horror, I look over the preacher's shoulder to see Maggie's naked butt cheeks pressed up against the glass. "Oh shit!" fell from my mouth before I could remember my manners (in front of a preacher, no less!) and I spent 20 minutes chasing her around the play area, up & down the slide, trying to dress her. After that, I begged the pediatrician for advice on keeping her clothed. The solution was scheduled times of nakedness. I usually let her have two 30 minute birthday suit options per day with times that are absolute no naked time---public places, the front yard, on the trampoline, etc. And I thought Will's schedule from last summer was brutal!! However, total props to our Pediatrician--this scheduled time is magic!
However, I digress....Sunday, we went to my sister's house and grilled out & played cornhole. And Monday, we worked in my Dad's garden harvesting veggies to bring home. Ian and Will were supposed to help pick green beans. Will did well wandering between Josh& I at the green beans and my Dad cutting okra. Ian complained over every. single. green. bean. he. picked. I finally told him,"If you picked beans as much as you complained, we would be finished already!" He liked that comment less than picking beans. But he hung in there and helped us get the work done--and he and Will slept all the way back to Spartanburg!
It was a trip that was too short but there will be many more! Tomorrow is my first full day of all three kids home for summer break since I worked at the office today. I have green beans to can tomorrow so they will be busy helping me snap beans but I dust off that schedule on Thursday and we get down to the work of living peacefully together for 3 months until school starts back...of course, I will have to pencil in Maggie's naked time!
Stay tuned for a summer full of Burgess Bunch Adventures!
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