I feel so obligated to blog right now because there are so many things going on that I don't want to forget about.
First of all, Nana and Papa came to visit for 10 days after their Norwegian cruise. It was so fabulous to have them here! Highlights include the following: a show at the Polka theatre where we got to meet Jacqueline Wilson, a trip to Cambridge for punting, lots of World Cup Football matches, Alison doing lots of rainbow looming, a trip to Wimbledon for Brad, Nana and Papa and 10 days of sunny weather. And we got some new garden furniture, which has made sitting outside even better and more comfortable!
The hot weather has been amazing (for someone like me that loves the heat more than the cold especially.) It has been a bit hot to sleep a couple of nights but not too bad. People are always asking me if this weather is similar to home and I say yes, but the difference is at home we have air-con, but we also have loads of bugs. We have had our windows open for over a month now with no screens because there are no bugs, it's amazing!
World Cup mania has come to the Scheiner house!!! I have never watched an entire football match, and in the past month I have watched about 15 I think. Drew has become a true England football fan, and we really enjoyed watching them play well enough to get themselves into the quarter-finals. He experienced his first real sports heartache ever on Wednesday night when they lost to Croatia. He cried so hard for at least 20 minutes. Bless him! It is so great to see him so into it, and I think this year will be the first year that he is able to sit and watch an entire Michigan game this autumn. Lauren had her year 6 production on Tuesday night, and Drew and Alison went to our neighbour's house while Brad and I went to the show. Our neighbour is a huge France football fan; France was playing Belgium and Brad sat right next to him and watched the entire first half while his own 2 sons were off playing with Alison. He is a true football fan now! He said that when he gets older he is going to play for the US and win all the games.
In between the football, we had the summer fair (my last one as the PTA chair), which was great fun with a climbing wall this year. And we had to change the time because of England playing in the quarterfinals. And Lauren had her induction day at what we thought was going to be her new Secondary School, Burntwood. However, we received a letter two days before school was out that she was accepted to her second choice St. Cecilia's. Lauren had a decision to make: Burntwood , a larger all girls school where she has been and met her tutor group and is more familiar, or St. Cecilia's, which is a co-ed church school about half the size of the other but she missed the induction day! In the end, she chose St. Cecilia's. We told her she would get a good education either place, but it was her decision! She wasn't sure at first but once we went and purchased the uniform and read over all the information, she is now very excited!!!
