Summertime

So as I am approaching the end of Summer in a few weeks I've been thinking about whether I am excited for school to start up again. And the answer is YES!!!!!! For one thing, it means my dear friend over at Elferingewort will be coming home soon, which is probably sad for her to leave her friends and family she is with, but I will be pretty thrilled to have her back here :) For another thing, I am finally, after years and years of waiting and preparing, going to start nursing school! This is totally weirding me out because I have known I was going to be a nurse ever since I was giving shots to my teddy bears at age 6, but it's always been that distant future type of thing, where it felt like it was never actually going to happen. But guess what, it's happening, in less than 4 weeks!!! Crazy sauce. So yeah, this year is going to be crazy tough, but it will also rock :)

In other news, this Summer has been pretty great. As aforementioned, my sister and her kids came to stay with us for a few weeks before moving across the states. I've always loved hanging out with all of them, and I'm pretty bummed that they're going to be so far away, so it was good to be able to spend some time with them. I don't think it had occurred to me how much I will miss them until Strawberry (my sister's oldest daughter) woke up the morning I was leaving for Idaho and came to give me a big hug and I didn't want to let go :( But I'm really happy that they all finally got to go be with their Daddy who moved a few weeks ahead of them to start working while they finished up school.

In other other news I spent the last few weeks at my eldest brother's house up in northern Idaho. I had a lot of fun and it was cool to get to spend time with him and his family because I don't get to see them very often since they always live so far away. His kids are so cute and fun, and I got to play with them a lot. As soon as I got there his daughter took me outside and handed me a chicken to hold, which was pretty cool cause I've never held a chicken before, and we spent a lot of time playing chickens after that:) The older boys took me on lots of adventures in their yard which mostly consisted of getting lost in the tall timothy grass behind their house, and they taught me a lot of songs from Mario :) And they also have a little toddler who is crazy adorable and he would just run up to me yell "Hey Bon-nie!" with a big grin on his face. It was pretty heart melting. And it was also way fun to spend time with my brother and his wife. It's been a while since I had gotten to spend much time with either of them and they are pretty stellar people to be around :) It was also a bonus that the weather was absolutely beautiful :)

So basically that is what I have been up to this summer. The only sibling I didn't see was my second oldest brother, cause he was up staying with his wife's family, so hopefully I will get to see him sometime soon :) Other than that I have been reading lots of books. So far all of them have been good, someday I'll do a book review for them, but this post is getting a little too long :) But my favorites have been Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel, Villette, and Elantris. I highly recommend all of them :)