Perfect Playground Weather

I miss summer already. I love going to the pool and water parks. I even like hot and humid weather. I like the freedom of no school in the summer. But, fall is beautiful and we are having perfect playground weather now. Wesley has a 30 minute piano lesson once a week. During the summer, I sat in the air-conditioned car with Josiah and Lydia while we waited on Wesley. Yesterday, was our first trip to the piano teacher's local school playground since last spring. The school recently open a new playground.

There is a cool surfboard that was surprisingly hard for Lydia.

Josiah had an even harder time with it.

Josiah like the curvy slide.

Lydia did a lot of climbing.

After Wesley's lesson, I took all three kids to the Christian bookstore to buy a new Bible for me.  I often take them to a regular bookstore and everything is fine, but yesterday was crazy with them.  Lydia had an absolute meltdown because I wouldn't buy her anything.  I wouldn't buy her a Bible, a toy, a wooden cross, or a metal cross.  Josiah ripped open a little toy car that he found in the party favor section at the end of the aisle of Bible.  After that, he rolled the car back and forth with Wesley which was fine.  I managed to keep my cool, but I didn't buy a Bible.  I did buy the car Josiah opened (I was grateful that it was less than $2) which added fuel to Lydia's flame.

Then we went to Trader Joe's and thankfully the kids were calmer. An older woman told me, "You have your hands full.  I hope you don't work; taking care of these kids is a full time job."  I would really like to say to people, "Please don't tell me I have my hands full unless you are offering a hand to help me!"  We stood in the aisle and talked with this lady for a few minutes and she turned out to be nice and even complimentary.

I came home exhausted and promised myself and the kids that they were going to bed at 7:00.  Of course, we ate dinner at 7:00 and they went to bed after 8:00.