It's a hot sunday evening - too hot for a walk or even to just "play sticks" or "play dirt" or "play with the ball". Yes, that's right folks at 7 pm it was 100 degrees! Plus humid. very humid. Getting into the car after church Kent resisted getting into the car "It's so hot in the car Mommy! Please turn on the air! Please turn on the air!" Got him strapped into his carseat by joking around with him - "Kent is it so hot we could bake cookies in the car?!" He laughed, Wade and I kept our audience laughing with more suggestions of what we could bake in our car. By 7pm I had a bad case of cabin fever, and so did Kent. In desperation I suggested let's go outside EVERYBODY. Wade countered that motion with pulling up the weather online. Big, bold, red letters apeared the screen warning of the current heat advisory in force. The kids and I went out onto our balcony - and returned to the lovely AC after a mere few miniutes had elapsed. So this is what we did to relieve the symptoms of cabin fever - and had so much fun!
I got out my special watercolors and brushes and painted an ocean with Kent! He loved it!
Then we all got our groove on dancing it up in Kent's room.
The cooler evenings are sadly of the past. Wade and I liked to steal away to the balcony when both boys were asleep and sit on our bench under the stars and sip our mugs of hot chocolate. Then as the season changed to cool summer nights we treated ourselves to icy real fruit popsicles under the stars or watching storm clouds gathering. Now that the large bugs pelt into foreheads and with this current heatwave breaking all records the couch is much perfered. At least we are in the same room at some point in the evening but at a distance it's roasting. We quote Phil and Beth "you are touching my wrist" hehe!
