countdown and swimming

one week until normal schedule! everyone is looking forward to getting back to the usual things.

jack showed back up! after almost 2 weeks of running after females in heat, he came home yesterday. he had a bath, food, water, and is now on supervised visits to the great outdoors. he goes in monday to get neutered and fixed up. he came home with quite a few cuts, i've no clue what he's been up to. this morning i took him out to potty, and he led me over to the neighbors house through their horse pasture. i think that's where he's been hanging out, he seemed friendly with the two dogs there. he wouldn't follow me home, so i had to carry him. good thing he's only about 16 pounds. he's napping on the back of the couch in the living room now.

at a friend's pool on friday. my 9 yr old will finally jump off the side of the pool (wearing an inflatable ring) into the water. i don't know where the fear of water comes from! my 7 yr old somehow has turned into a little fishy! she'll jump off the side (without ring), and she taught herself to swim underwater. she'll even swim in the deep end! we're so proud. we're going swimming again on wednesday.

glad the horrid heat seems to be waning. it was 110F outside on thursday! i don't want to know what the heat index was. we got a little rain, maybe 1/4 inch, but better than nothing.

ok, i have to go on a bit of a rant here about ill named children. this is my major pet peeve! lately it seems that people are having problems giving their sons proper names. this one guy i know has a son named adriel, this is one of the names for the angel of death. this other family i know named their son jewell ray, i don't care if jewell is a family name, what in gods name were they thinking! just wait until he gets to middle school! or this other family, the boy's name is dayton! that's a damn brand of tires! or other people naming their kids after states... why? i knew a girl in jr. high whose name was summer rain, she hated her parents for doing this to her and swore that as soon as she turned 18 she was changing it to something normal like susan, mary, or elizabeth. people, please, think before naming! what sounds cute for a baby will not be cute for a grown-up. really can you see the CEO of a major company named mitzy? no. mitzy is a pole dancer (stripper).

ok, am now done with rant.

done with post for this week.

stay tuned...