August 23, 2012

Outside Temp:57 F (high of 87 today... which is at least 3 degrees cooler than 90, which is really cool!)

What I cooked today:
Burgers and Tater Tots: I think I'm going to be exciting tomorrow and do something in the crock pot.  But, until then, by the time I got back from picking up the kids at practice, and chatting with my mom, it was time for bed.  Okay, not really, but I had to do something quick.  Old standby... here we come.

Update:
So, you all know how much I really hate the heat, right?  I only complain about it every time it's over 75 degrees.  But, one thing that makes it so nice up here is that it cools off at night. 

Yesterday, it was warm, not boiling hot, but warm, in the 80's.  So, as usual, as soon as the outside temperature is below the inside temperature, I open up all the windows.  It lets the breeze flow through the house, cleaning out all the teenage boy smell, and cools it down.

Well, last night was no exception.  As the kids climbed into bed at 9pm, I went around the house, opening up windows everywhere I went.  Connor was the only smart one, who requested that the back door, leading to the outside, be kept closed, to keep bugs out.  Smart kid.

When I climbed into bed around 11pm, I realized it was a little chilly, but not bad.  So, I threw an extra blanket on Katie, put an extra comforter on my bed, and went to sleep, thinking nothing of the open windows throughout the house.

Sometime in the night, I was awakened by a sound of a machine turning on, but in my sleepy haze, I wrote it off to the defrost cycle of the refrigerator, and went back to sleep.  This morning, I figured out what the sound actually was.

It was the propane heater turning on, which only happens when the inside temperature of house gets below 55F.  Ooops. 

It was 42 degrees outside this morning when we woke up, with most of the windows opened, it was just over 50 in the house.  Oh, boy, did I hear it from my kids.  The second day of school, and it was a fight to get them out of the their nice cozy blankets.  Allen even said he had a dream of being stuck in a freezing school bus, as it plunged into an icy lake. 

Perhaps, tomorrow, we'll sleep with the windows closed.

Ryan is doing great.  His doctors have already talked about going 'H', although we don't actually say it out loud (something about testing fate).  Grandma was awesome and took over watching him, so Patrick could get some work done.  We will have 2 weeks with his PICC line, which is annoying, but not awful.  I'm sure we'll survive.

I went into town today, to pick up football supplies for Allen.  Who knew there were 'football supplies'.  So, we needed first a mouth guard and a cup, obviously.  Then, we realized last night, that his helmet and pads don't fit into the NIKE bag that we had lying around, so we needed a new bag, that would be big enough to hold all his crap.  Then, Allen informed me that there were these awesome spandex shirts with padding built in, that protect your ribs from opposing helmets.  I tried not to think about other people's heads going into the rib cage of my oldest child, but in the event that it occurs, I liked the idea that he would be slightly protected.  I hope that will be $50 well spent. 

Of course, as luck would have it, mouth guards need to be 'fitted', which means they get heated up in boiling water, and then molded to the mouth.  All of which could not occur during the 3 minutes between the time he got his stuff and the time he had to be on the bus.  So, he didn't have a mouth guard.  And, as luck would have it, he managed to drop his new, un-fitted mouth guard in the field somewhere, and it didn't make it home.  Which means that he will have a third day with no mouth guard.  I'm just hoping that he can find it and I won't have to buy another one!

And, Katie will need her 'Volleyball supplies'.  Oh joy.  At least she's easier... she just needs knee pads, I think.  We'll see tomorrow if there are more things we need.  This sport thing is kind of expensive!