Who has two thumbs and is the worst blogger ever?

This girl!!
Yeah so, I'm pretty much horrible at this. Anyway, we've been really enjoying our summer! Seriously, this summer is pretty much awesome. I've read several books, we've gone to the pool a ton and we've been staying up late and sleeping in. It's great. I am so so glad I'm getting to spend thus time with the kids before nursing school starts and I never get to see anyone ever again (Jk, kinda). Anyway, here are some pictures from our summer so far.

Summer

It's officially summer! Everyone is out of school and we are in full swing relax mode. Ok, so "relax mode" means tryin to find something EVERYDAY to entertain these kids but that's relaxing right??? So far we have gone to pump It Up and yesterday we went to a little splash pad.
Also, Henry has swim team practice EVERYDAY at 8:30, so so much for sleeping in! Boo! Anyway, it is so nice to not have to worry about doing homework for a few weeks. We also spend lots of time outside since Larkin wants to spend basically every waking moment out in the yard. That boy loves to be outside!

This moment

Henry and Maggie are gone for the weekend to visit their dad in St. Louis. They are going to have so much fun! Larkin and I are going to spend the whole weekend loving on each other and getting projects done. We may even do some garage saling in the morning. The world is our oyster! And as long as we are together we are SO HAPPY!
Here is a picture of Larkin and my other part-time love bunny, Ryco.

More stuff

I just wanted to let you know a little bit about what you can expect to see on this blog. And also what you absolutely won't see here.

First of all, it's likely that I'll be posting a lot of pictures. Not super impressive professional artsy photos that I've spent lots of time editing. No. I'm talking straight from my iPhone, possible instagrammed photos. I take a lot of pictures but I almost always take them on my cell phone. I have three kids and I think everything they do is amazing/hilarious/adorable so if you are a Big 'Ol Kid Hater then you have come to the wrong blog my friend.

Secondly, I am a single (divorced, yuck) mother of three crazy kids. I'll probably be talking a lot about them in addition to all the aforementioned pictures. Maybe I'll talk about the daily struggles of being a single mom? Maybe not, we'll just see.

We live with my parents out in the country. We have a huge garden, three dogs, a cat and five chickens. We find all that goes on on "our little farm" to be very interesting, so I will be sure to share about that.

I am currently out of school for the summer (YAY) but in the fall I will be in nursing school so that could be a topic of interest.

Some other random things that I care about: breast feeding, cross stitching, napping, eating cookies, positive discipline, reading and drinking diet Dr. Pepper. All of those are riveting topics for blogging, right??

Anyway, here are a few things that I most likely WILL NOT be talking about:
Politics- yuck. Just the thought of trying to discuss politics gives me the hives. I have my own opinions and I often don't share them with anyone unless I KNOW that person is close to being on the same page as me about said topic. Does that make me a coward?? Maybe. But, I think I just like to avoid conflict.

Religion- see above.

News in General- while I'm more than a little embarrassed to admit that I can tell you ALMOST ANYTHING about celebrity news, I am way less educated about real news. Yes, I listen to NPR, and read The Huffington Post and all that but I would NEVER try to explain anything like an important news event on this here blog. If you want to read about that I'll be happy to direct you to my favorite news sites. NOW, if J. Lo gets engaged or Justin Beiber comes out of he closet then I'll be ALL OVER IT. ( I'm kidding, kind of)

Anyway, that's all for now. I'll leave you with a picture of one of our beautiful chickens.

Take 3

I have decided to try and write a blog again. This is my third attempt at blogging. So yeah, I'm pretty bad at finishing things. Actually, I'm terrible at it. BUT I have this new thing I'm trying where I actually do the things I say I'm going to do so MAYBE, just maybe, this time will be different.
I've also got this fayncay new app that lets me blog from my phone so I'm hoping that maybe that will help also.
We will see I guess. Maybe I'll blog once a week, maybe I'll blog once a year. Regardless, I'm trying here.