A Summerish Day

Well - I think the worst has happened. Our home computer abruptly shut off while Mom was using it and refuses to be turned on. I'm hoping it isn't truly the worst, because I have years of pictures and important school documents on there. I'm trying not to think about it too much, because I fear I may cry! :) So, I'm updating on my dad's laptop.

Today, I had a very summerish day - I guess as "summerish" of a day that you can have in the summer. lol Mom decided that today was the day for a bike ride. So after much cajoling I got out of bed and got ready while Andrew put the bikes on the car. My mom treated us to Panera Bread - cinnamon crunch bagel with butter - the perfect quick (and cheap) breakfast! We then began our great escapade in Milford and headed due - well I'm not really sure which direction we were heading - but we headed towards Loveland. It was quite a beautiful day for a bike ride - breezy, sunny, and not too warm. We rode and rode and rode and continued riding in hopes of finding a picnic table for our lunch but finally settled underneath a large tree amongst the dead cicadas and lively ants. There is nothing quite better than a picnic lunch after a 6 and some mile bike ride. After we ate our lunch we began the long journey back. Somehow it always seems like it takes longer on the way back at least when you are on a bike. We made it back with just a slight scuffle when Mom was trying to cross an intersection the same time a car was trying to cross. But she made it out quite alive and much more cautious at further intersections. My dear mother, who was in such a generous mood today, stopped at Sonic (because it was happy hour) and got all of us slushes and limeades for I believe around $2.70 for the three of us. We love happy hour, at Sonic that is.

We made it home a little before 3 p.m. and Andrew mowed the yard, quite rapidly I thought, and mom and I decided to tackle a tree garden that had become just that - a garden full of trees. I snipped and she dug and then I left in great need of a shower and preparation for my class at church.

We fixed mini pizzas for supper - after quite a long discussion as to what we would fix (why can't we say *poof* and supper is ready?) and then headed to church. Today was Randy's birthday so we sang lots of songs, reviewed last week's lesson on the Giant and reviewed the verse and then had cupcakes and milk. (Birthday's are awesome, right?) Then I let them play outside a little early. (Birthday's only come once a year.)

I've begun A Tale of Two Cities and am extremely enjoying Dickens' writing style. He says things in ways I've never heard before - it is quite refreshing. For instance, I was just reading this part and thought this sentence was good:

"When his host followed him out on the staircase with a candle, to light him down the stairs, the day was coldly looking in through its grimy windows."

That was just one sentence that caught my eye - there has been so many. Who knew that classics could be fun! ;-)