RECORD HIGH

Today marks the record high for the city of Seattle. Of course for those of us who live outside of the city, the temperature was way higher.

Mimi and I kept cool by staying in air conditioned places. First way Jiffy Lube, then Safeway, then the nail shop, then home where she, Blake and Spencer kept watering themselves in the pool or slip 'n' slide. Thank goodness the lodge where the karate class takes place is air conditioned. Then we decided to skip the sports camp for today as it was 7:00 in the evening and still over 100 degrees outside. Instead we opted for McDonald's playset where it is airconditioned and we also got some ice cream to keep us cool and a yummy way to do it too.

SPORTS CAMP AND KARATE

This past Monday afternoon marked the beginning of karate and sports camp for Mimi and her friends Blake, Erin and Zoe. It is also the first time in a long time that we moms were able to get together too. A couple of weeks ago was the real pits for a lot of us. For me it was my spider infected leg and dealing with Ms Sassy who came to visit for a while. For some reason a lot of the parents are having to deal with sassy kids. For Shelley, it was her son Braden. She had taken both Braden and Zoe to Costco and she says that Braden (4yo) was not only sassy with her but started to hit her too. She called Mike (dad) at work and told him about it. Mike who works construction in laying cement, was working with a sledge hammer and must have been thinking about Shelly's situation with Braden, all of a sudden whacked his left thumb with the sledge hammer real good. It is now in a brace. Keri who rammed her right hand pinky finger into the stair railing while on vacation last month finally saw a doctor and found out that she needed surgery on that finger. Janet had to take care of 3 kids all by herself while hubby Sean was out of town for 3 days on business. They all came down with the flu. She also said that her Liam is awfully sassy too. I tell you, when it rains it really pours. Everything is now either back to normal or getting back to normal. My leg is healing quite nicely, Mimi is back to being sweet, sweet, sweet, Mike's thumb and Keri's finger is on the mend. Janet and her family is all well except for Sean who now has the flu. That's the latest gossip for now.

As far as Mimi goes, she just loves karate and sports camp. The karate class is down at the lodge by the lake. As soon as it is over, we skeedaddle on home just in time to make it over to her school for sports camp. I must say that the sports camp is well organized. I was very impressed last year when she and Spencer did it together. They have all of the kids grouped by age and do just a couple of sports each night with a rally at the end and everyone gets some kind of prize. No one is left out.