A BLUR

So this past week was an absolute blur! I had COTL (Children Of The Light) training camp all week until late each night. COTL is a local ministry of Youth For Christ and is a music group for about 25 teens. They do their own live music and drama as well and are quite good. I am the vocal coach and I look forward to it every year. I do a vocal technique class on Monday to kick off the week and then go in every day to help with solo auditions, performance "tweeking", and however else I can help musically. The kids this year are a neat group and I had a lot of fun working with them - a lot of talent in there! The Fri PM concert went really well with no train wrecks musically so that is considered a success for sure! :)

How do I have a pre-teen already??

Time honestly does go faster the older you are. I can't believe that I am officially the parent of a pre-teen girl! Teenie-Bopper, Tween, ....whatever you call it, the hormones are raging in full-swing and I am quickly loosing my status as a "cool" mom. I am seeing a lot more rolled eyes and hearing a ton more talking back and attitude in general.....groan! I am sooo not ready for this.
Katies big birthday bash was last night. I let her invite 15 friends thinking that 1/2 would come. Apparently she is quite the socialite and we had 14 here last night and 12 spent the night. 12 tween girls, a lot of sugar, and .....well, you get the picture. At 2:30 I made them start taking it down a notch and they finally went out around 3:00. So today I feel quite old. I had to take a nap this morning. Katie had a blast and kept telling us it was the "best party ever".
Maybe, just maybe, I regained some of my "cool" mom status....at least until tomorrow!

Our Pool Adventures

So we got the kids a pool last summer. One of the easy-set -up ones. Paid $200 bucks for it and justified it by thinking that we would get more than one year out of it......didn't happen! We got it out (finally) the other night. I spent about 2 hours scrubbing it out by hand with bleach......my OCD kicks in with the thought of germs. About 10:00 PM we inflated the top and started filling it with water. I went out at midnight to turn off the water and it was flat and the water was running all over the ground. That should make for a nice water bill!
The kids love the pool and we haven't been able to get to the Bluffton pool much this year so we decided to go ahead and get them another one. School is just 4 weeks away but they are getting to the "climbing the walls" phase of the summer. The novelty of nothing to do is wearing thin and I typically break up a minimum of 50 fights a day.
We set it up last night without any issue but I found a hole in it this morning and now the pump is freaking out.....grrrrr! At least it was 1/2-off since it's the "end" of the season.