Summer

Today was the first day that we have reached temperatures over 60 degrees. As I walked out of the gym without a jacket for myself or kids, I actually thought, "This might be a really fun summer!" The boys are getting older, funner, I don't have a baby (Colby is 15 mo right now) and excitement was building. Then school released early today. All of my hopes and dreams for a great summer were dashed and I was welcomed back to reality. My boys were all changing and on a dead run for their bikes. They all wanted fudgesicles (I have no idea how to spell that word!) and outside they went. About 15 min later the neighbor, with 3 week old baby in tow, knocks on my door. She told her barely 5 yr old that he wasn't allowed to leave the culdasac and couldn't see him and wondered if I might know where they were. I grabbed my shoes and off we went to look in their normal "play areas" in the neighborhood. No where to be found. Getting a little panicked, more for her sake, I start running down the street. I ask the roofers on a nearby house if they saw 5 boys (my three and two neighbor boys) on bikes come by and they pointed towards the school (.5 mile from my house) I run back to my house and tell Cassie that I will go find them and throw the babies in the car and take off. As I am about to the school, I see a whole slew of kids walking along. They had went down the neighborhood gathering kids to go to the park. There were about 12 of them. Half of me wanted to laugh, and the other half wanted to yank them in the car so fast their heads would spin! They looked at me like I was crazy when I told them to turn their butts around and get back home. I followed them to a place where they could do nothing but make it home, and told them I was leaving to tell Cassie I had found them. They decided to take a "short cut" (with their bikes) through a field. Well, snow mixed with 62 degrees = MUD!!! Caden and Conner where sitting in the mud about 10 min later when I went AGAIN to find them. I had to apologize to the neighbor and tell her that I was sorry that my boys had taken off with her little boy, but I also had to apologize for the many times in the future that they would probably be bad examples!!!