I have been looking back at some of the old-old A Frog In My Soup posts because I have been considering re-sharing some of them with you…there are some really cute, funny and thoughtful ones that I think are worth looking at again. Anyway, it’s been almost therapeutic for me to look at all of them, nostalgic even 
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I definitely found some very fun old posts that I’m sure to share with all of you soon, but what caught my eye in particular today is one post written on Monday June 4th, 2007…here it is, then I’ll tell you why it is so significant:
Well, here we are another Monday has come and is almost gone! I am wishing for time to slow down! Does it? No! There are days that I simply have far more to get done than there are hours in the day. I know I’m not the only one though and I’m looking forward to summer – not that I get more time, just that I seem to give myself more allowances, go figure.
I have some super fun ideas planned for all the boys and hope that it will be a fun and productive summer for us all! Of course with the ages of the little people we have around here I am a little limited unless I come up with an amazing and yet un-thought-of bright idea.
I always have the boys do some workbooks through the summer, and this summer I am planning to mainly have them do scrapbooks – with lots of journaling. This is a great way for them to capture the memories of what they are doing from their point of view. I hope to take photos of various things that they do throughout the summer for them to use in their books and then they can write about the photo and event. Some of the entries into their books will include their own drawings of the events too. This should be fun for them (and me) to do and I am looking forward to the end result. I think they will be surprised and thrilled when school starts again next fall and they have a super fun book to show for it!
We will be investigating nature, hopefully go to the Zoo one month and maybe the Aquarium another month. I don’t have it all figured out yet obviously, but I’m getting a good idea. They don’t get out of school for a few weeks yet, so I still have time to finalize my ideas.
We have a couple of birthdays thrown in too, so I have to plan a family party for two and a friend party for one. Should be interesting since most of my creativity seems to still not have returned after the twins’ birth.
Now, I will once again reiterate that this was written almost exactly TWO YEARS AGO. The scary thing is…this post could have been written by me still today as I think of the summer before me. In fact, many of these same thoughts have been running amuck in my mind and was sure to become a future blog post.
Granted, the boys are all each two years older too, but the age difference from 13 down to 3 can still be very daunting when planning…the twins think there are no boundaries in life and make any outing a challenge.
Either way though, it was a little bit shocking for me (obviously) when I realized that in the last two years, though it seems like so many things have changed…some things really haven’t changed at all. Apparently this is one of them!
Ok, and I’ll admit, re-reading the scrapbooking-the-summer idea, has me really thinking again!!! Not a bad idea! On the other hand, the statement that my “creativity seems to still not have returned after the twins’ birth”…yeah, that seems to still be the case *sigh*.
Do you have things or events in your life that seem to stay consistent even though you’re sure time will change them???