One of the things I really worried about when deciding to move to Vermont was the summers. I truly thought that the only way summer would be fun was if it was at least 90 degrees so that you could lay out in the sun & go swimming, and do all those fun summery things. Mathew laughed at me, saying that Vermont would still have summer - it wasn't Antarctica for cryin' out loud - and it would still have the occasional hot day, but it would be more mild all of the other days. And we could still go swimming and do all of those things, but be able to actually breathe outside while doing it!
I hate it when he's right. :/
So now we're out of the proverbial "kitchen." (Yeah, yeah, I know that expression means something else entirely, but for this purpose I'm using it for actual heat. :P lol) This summer has been so nice! We've had the occasional day in the 60's, and a day or two of 90, but for the most part it's been upper 70's to 80ish and very comfortable. I can see why they don't find a need for air conditioning in homes here. It's just fine with an open window, and it get's down to the 50's at night, so no big deal. And frankly, for the most part, you're outside playing anyway, so who cares! :)
The kids are doing their fair share of playing so far. We've never been big "over-schedulers" in our house packing the kids' days with a ton of activities (so far anyway), but they're keeping busy. They started golf lessons - super cute in their little polo's & plaid shorts ;) - and they'll all start swim lessons next week. Maybe starting guitar lessons here too soon if we can get it coordinated. Besides that they've just been hanging around Matt at the house trying to get some work done.
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I'm really really ready for this all to be done & get on with our lives. Our self-imposed deadline for moving in will be here in about a month & a half and we've barely begun the process of putting it back together. It's SO not gunna happen. Poor Matt keeps getting hurt, the injections in his back aren't helping anymore, and it's seriously too damn hard to do it all with your own two hands. I can only be there so much to help and when I'm there I'll be the first to admit I haven't the slightest clue what I'm doing! lol But slowly but surely we're getting there, and I keep telling myself it'll all be worth it in the end. In the above picture you can see that we got all of the god-awful siding off finally. Yippee! I'm sure that'll make a huge difference. Plus all of the trees are cut down & out of the way, so that's great too. It would be great though, if we could get some free help. Maybe Phineas & Ferb could come by... they'd have it done by lunch!
Good thing we live just a few miles from Danville! ;)
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