Two Sun filled days and a major headache

I went to bed at 7:00 last night. I climbed in thinking I'd just have a little nap to get rid of a nasty headache I had. I drifted in and out of sleep as I listened to Adam pounding the ground with a hammer (he was doing some asphalt repair). I got out of bed a few times but every time I did my head would begin to pound again. I was scheduled for a 6 miler but there was no way I was going. The aleve I took was doing nothing to control the explosion in my head. I finally surrendered and went to sleep. I think my body was just too water logged and sun soaked and the headache was the result of it's rebellion. Wednesday we spent the day at Seven Peaks. This is an annual tradition and lots of fun. For the kids. For me...not so much. I mean first I have to parade around in a swimsuit in front of all of my ridiculously skinny sisters-in-law and even a few of their husbands. Eek. And then I get to chase four kids and make sure that A) no one drowns, B) no one drowns some one else and C) no one drowns while trying to drown someone else. For some reason this year Ian was terrified of all of the slides even the small ones that you have to literally push yourself down. That was good for me since last year he got stuck on one of them and stood up and walked down. Ya, the life guard didn't like that one. This year the other kids wanted to play in this area and Ian had several meltdowns because of the slides and we ended up spending most of the day in the wave pool. Luckily I had some relief in the wave pool. I was so thankful for John Jay's help with Ian. There is no way I could have done it without his help. Thursday I decided to invite some friends over for a craft day with the kids. It was really fun and gave me a chance to visit and feel social. I've been really struggling with the whole "social" thing lately. I have a lot of great friends some of who I talk to almost everyday but for some psycho reason I've been feeling really left out and sad lately. I decided it's time to make my own happiness and not to depend on others to make it for me. I really do wear my emotions on my sleeve and little things can send me into a depression. So, it's up to me to not feel this way right? Anyway we had lots of fun making necklaces, hats and bookmarks. We decided to put the kids down for a quick nap and head to the PG pool. My kids were in heaven with two days of swimming but after a few hours at the pool I good feel the sun sucking the energy from my body. Owen was being very brave and I had to keep rescuing him from the deeper end. He'd walk until he couldn't touch and then he'd grab onto the side. I was hoping that just once he'd go under and realize it was much funner to stay by mom. Nope. The "have mom chase me to the deep end" game was much funner than playing where he could actually touch. I can't believe that summer is winding down. One month from today and the kiddos will be back in action at school. Sweet relief!