Things I’ve learned this summer

To five and six year old boys, baseball season never lasts long enough.

Top bunks and cement floors don’t mix.

No matter how many times you warn them, someone will eventually break a window.

Surprises can be life-changing.

During a drought, kids suddenly notice things like who has a well and who does not.

Driving east on Washington is guaranteed to elicit the same response from our boys every time: “There’s the good grass!”

Instructions from the six year old on how to get “good grass” of my own: “You need to mow it and then mow it again.”

No matter how bad you think you might not want what you’re getting, as soon as you’re not getting what you didn’t really want, you wonder how you could not have wanted it to begin with!

Kids take wishing wells seriously.

Shots are still the pits.

There are certain things in life that are unavoidably addictive to a child: card games, video games, and picking weeds.

PreK is only three hours a day. PreK is only three hours a day. PreK is only three hours a day.

While it has been excessively hot in Oklahoma this summer, one thing’s for sure: hell will be hotter.

In 14 years, we’ll be watching Brisco in the All State games…“if we’re still alive.”

Good friends and sisters are truly a blessing.

Kids don’t have to be coached when it comes to hamming it up for the camera.

We are no less competitive when it comes to playing pool than we are at playing baseball.

No one is man enough to eat the pink popsicles.

Twelve polished rocks make the perfect infield when playing backseat baseball.

Animal Planet’s Finding Bigfoot is not conducive to the sleeping patterns of children under age seven.

There’s nothing more un-apropos than a malfunctioning air conditioner in 110 degree heat.

There is definitely a quantifiable number of items on my bucket list. Touching live Sea Urchins and Starfish--check. Petting Sharks and Manta Rays--I’ll pass.

It’s never too hot to mow the infield or play ball in the back yard.

Never underestimate the power of a good book.

And that’s All in a day’s work!