So, now that I gave away what we're having for dinner tonight, let me fill you in on the rest of this week's menu:

Monday - Brats & fruit

Tuesday - Burgers

Wednesday - Lasagna

Thursday - Homemade Pizza

Friday - Leftovers

No plan past that point, yet. The boys go back to their Dad's on Friday and I'll be picking them up on Sunday afternoon. I'll probably just work my way through any leftovers this weekend.

I've been a busy little camper this week and so having a day at home is a real treat for me. I'm mixing catching up on some housework with a lot of time for thought, reflection and writing. I have some friends who are having some relationship problems and while I know they're going to work them out, it sure has gotten the wheels inside of my own head turning. I started writing a piece about relationships and the importance of communication but I'm not sure that I'm going to finish it. That's the problem with my poor brain today. It has a million thoughts inside and I think they're all related to different things. It stays hard to focus on just one. That's ok, though. I'm just happy my brain is still working after this heatwave and me having to be outside in it!

Ok, time for me to get back to work. I'm one day short of finishing next week's menu. I have to go grocery shopping tomorrow and it's the first week with the kids for the summer so I'm keeping it nice and easy. Besides, if I'm honest, I just don't have the energy for a huge shopping trip tomorrow. I'm using it all up today writing and thinking and housecleaning!

So, that's my plan for today. What are you going to do for yourself today? Remember, a happy you makes for happy people around you.

That's this summer though. For now, I have a couple of simple tasks I want to tackle. It's too darn hot here to do much more than that. I want to make up the end of year teacher's gifts so that they're ready to take with me on Friday. Once I get that done, I want to download the new ads for my radio show and upload a few of my recent shows. That's it. No pressure, nothing that's going to melt me into a puddle of sweaty goo. Once this heat breaks, I'm going to mow the lawn but I need all the energy I can get for tomorrow's all day (like 12+ hours) field trip.

Today was the boys' field day and I got up early so that I could drive over and enjoy it with them. It certainly was different than any of the field days we had when I was a kid. The kids all seemed to really enjoy the different stations that were set up. The boys got to play tennis, throw softballs, have a water relay, run races, do long jump and do high jump. I'm telling you that those kids will all sleep well tonight. You could see the heat just wearing them down as much as the physical exercise was. I did get a few pictures but spent most of my time helping to herd Mr. Willard's class around. Donna was there, as well, so she got some pictures that I already snagged from her facebook page. Thank goodness for technology, eh?

Now, I'm going to be honest here. I'm not making a menu for this week. There are a few reasons for that. 1.) It's blasted hot outside and inside. This house doesn't know what a/c is. 2.) I'm going to be running like a maniac for half of this week so I don't even know what times I'll be home. 3.) Ummm...I'm hot and tired and just don't wanna?

I will, however, be planning one on Thursday because Friday is my big shopping day. Starting Friday at 11:50am, I have the boys for the summer. I cannot believe how fast this past year has flown by! I'm probably only going to do enough shopping for a week because I want the boys to do some helping out with the menu planning this summer and we need to set up our summer routine. We're going to have one day every week to two weeks that we drive into Grand Ledge and do our grocery shopping, I think. The other option is to continue to do it in Hastings, just move it to the day that I pick them up from their dad's place. Something to ponder, that's for sure.

But, for now, I'm going to turn the fan so that it's blowing right on me and relax with some water and something on tv. I don't know what but I'm hoping something good is on. I'm feeling far too hot and lazy to go pick out a movie and put it into the dvd player. What would we have done before technology saved us from getting up off our butts? Well, I probably would have weighed a lot less which reminds me that I need to talk to nickle and Kath and Rob and Justin and ..and..and...well, I dunno who else about setting up our weight loss journey blog. No need to do it if they're not in.

Ok, enough babbling. Brain bake has set in for good and I need to try to avoid worsening the condition. ;)

Let's see, the day started out at 5:30am when I woke up and realized I had left the lawn mower outside and it was raining. After taking care of that, I crawled back into bed and in my exhausted state, way overslept and had to scramble to put my radio show together. Then, during the show, I realized that the darn Magic Jack had hijacked my microphone. The entire show was pure chaos. Plus, I pouted about the fact that I don't think anyone is really listening to the show.

Then, I dealt with some obnoxious people and realized one of my shelves in the bedroom had completely fallen out of the wall, dumping books everywhere. Oh, and the cats knocked over my container of plastic containers. Ugh. I'm telling you, I've totally had enough of today.

So, what am I going to finish today. I'm going to try to finish feeling sorry for myself. I'm going to curl up with the cheeseburger I just made and watch this week's episode of Glee off of the dvr. Thank goodness for technology. Then, I'm going to remember all of the good things in my life and pick up those plastic containers. No more decisions tonight. No worrying about if I should continue my radio show. Just relaxation and a lovely cheeseburger.

Other than that, it's been field trip time around here. I've already gone on two field trips this week. On Tuesday, I went with Roger to the Portage Air Zoo. We had a good time. I'm thinking that we might go back sometime so that I can actually read the information about the different things we were seeing. The class got there late so we didn't have a chance to do the tour.

Yesterday, Roger's class spent the day at the Saugatuck Dunes State Park. I got some incredible photos during the first half of the day. Unfortunately, during a hike up a massive sand dune, my asthma kicked in and I spent the second half of the hike getting my breathing back under control. Roger was super great about it though. I kept encouraging him and Hailey (another girl in his class) to catch up with the class and I'd catch up eventually but they both insisted on staying with me and making sure that I was ok. I really do have a great kid and so do Hailey's parents.

Now, on to today and my time for me. Well, I've spent most of the day snuggled up on the "new" couch, catching up on things off of the dvr. Why? Well, because yesterday took a lot of out me with my lungs plus, my calves are killing me. It probably didn't help that I decided to go out and mow most of the front lawn today. So, tv time it's been for me. I also spent a good chunk of time flipping through old photographs which I just love to do.

How about all of you? What are you doing to relax and to take care of yourself?

Roger asked me to come along on his class field trip out to Saugatuck Dunes State Park. I wish I had taken more photos but unfortunately, I had a near ugly asthma attack after hiking up a huge sand dune and spent the rest of the hike just getting my breathing under control. I did give my email address to one of the other ladies on the trip so hopefully she'll send me some or all of her photos.

Now, this guy clearly jump(ed) off of something to be achieving such a near perfect dive. Sadly, the only thing below him is the ground and not a lovely pool of water.