It's on my mind . . .

Last Sunday night I signed off of Facebook.  I checked once about an hour later because I have no will power.  About midweek I was on for less than 2 minutes (I can't remember why, but probably because I needed a "fix").  Friday I went on for less than 30 seconds to accept a friend request I knew was coming and to post a link to It's Over!.

That's it.  I haven't "liked" anything, commented on a status, seen a picture or posted a status update in over a week.  That's a record for me.  I've gone a few days before while being out of town, and away from internet while in the mountains, but this is the longest I've been home and off of Facebook since I joined in January, 2009.

Honestly, I haven't missed it as much as I thought I would (from a confirmed Facebook addict). A week away has been a good thing and I'm not sure when I'm going back.

I'm still thinking in Facebook statuses, though.

Since I'm not signed on to Facebook here are a few status updates I normally would've posted:

**It turns out I wasn't emotional about today being my son's last day of Kindergarten--until I saw a friend at the after school pick up and said "Last day of Kindergarten".  THEN the tears came.  Wow.

**After going to The Yard this weekend which was simultaneously family friendly AND a very cool "seen and be seen" type of place I'm thankful I'm no longer single and doing the whole bar scene thing.

**For a moment, while at the "seen and be seen" restaurant/bar/hangout spot I was looking enviously at the young girls in their cute clothes, perfect hair/make up and "I haven't had two kids" bodies and then I realized---I wouldn't trade places with them for anything in the world.  First of all, even when I was young and in my 20's I didn't look like that, but most importantly, I have a man who loves me, who supports me and who I get to raise 2 kids with.   I bet many of those girls are jealous of me :)

**I'm thankful that people my husband has known for nearly 40 years are not only people we're still in touch with, but ones that I couldn't imagine "doing life" without

**Celebrating the 16th birthday of one of the flower girls from our wedding! As crazy as that is, it's even crazier to me that [my son] is basically the same age now as she was then.  (We got married 2 months before she turned 7.  Our son will be 7 in just a little less than 3 months)

**One thing I'm NOT going to miss now that school is over for the summer? Sand from my son's shoes EVERYWHERE, including in the dryer's lint trap.

**After a wonderful 3 day weekend of family time I'm really not looking forward to [my husband] having to go back to work tomorrow

**Out of habit I went straight to my closet after waking up to get dressed for the day.  After realizing we didn't need to be out the door first thing this morning I decided to stay in my pj's a little while longer :)

**The first order of business on the first official day of summer vacation is going to the grocery store.  Not anybody's 1st choice in activities for the day, but since we all like to eat having food in the house is a must (and can't be delayed any longer)

**I can already tell what one of my favorite things about summer vacation is going to be: my kids can entertain each other (when her big brother is at school my daughter gets lonely and must be the center of my attention).  I can also already tell what is going to be one of my least favorite things about summer vacation: the fighting :)

**My son happened to see that tonight's ESPN game is the Angels vs. the Dodgers! Since playing on the Dodgers this year in Little League he's become a huge Dodgers fan--and he KNOWS how Mommy feels about the Angels.   If the game weren't on at bedtime (and if he didn't get so cranky if he stays up late) we would watch it together :)

**Just went BIG grocery shopping (as in Mother Heidi's cupboards were BARE) with both kids for the first time in a long time.   I quickly remembered why this is one of the things I fantasized about doing alone for many years and why it's a chore best accomplished while the kids are at school/preschool :)

**While I can't forsee it being full-time for our family for a variety of reasons, Summer Homeschool Day 1 is successfully in the books! Most importantly, neither the student nor the mommy teacher cried or yelled.  Yay us!