Adventures in La La Land

This week sure felt like summer! 1. We spent Memorial Day at Niki's as usual. My belly was back to normal after my issues last Saturday, so I ate lots of meatballs and mac n' cheese and cookies. It was hot and sunny, and the pool was warmed up to 85*, so the kids swam for six straight hours. I lost at two card games, swam a little myself, and enjoyed spending time with everyone. But I actually only took a couple pictures: 2. It was the kids' last week of school, and I felt the press of being a working mom, which is new for me. I went into work at Once Upon early on Wednesday so I could leave early enough to make it to the "End of the Year Talent Chapel." Lena's class played a few songs on their recorders and Levi's class sang. Thursday was my last day working in the library. My last class gets out at 2:10, but Levi's class was having a little "Awards Ceremony" at 2:00. Fortunately, our last name is at the end of the alphabet. I busted out of ...

1. Last weekend, my sweet cousins invited me to join them for a night away to celebrate Esther's birthday. So we piled into my van and headed down south to Flora, Indiana where we stayed at a working alpaca farm . Lol. We rented out their 1850s-esque cabin that has modern conveniences like electricity and running water, thank goodness. And we had so.much.fun.  We happened to be there on "shearing day." As you can see from the above pictures, it was necessary! Haha. The guy on the left hadn't been sheared yet in this one, but the one on the right had. We watched a bit of the shearing, then got an unusual lesson in their unscientific method of finding out whether or not the females are pregnant. Apparently they'd been bred recently, and in order to find out if they're pregnant, they put one female in a pen with one male. If she lets the male mount her, that means she's not pregnant. If he tries and she spits at him, that means she is. We definitely got more ...