I’m still busy working on my redesign and migration to WordPress. I’m hoping to be live by June 10th with an extra special give away to celebrate. Posting will continue to be light but in the meantime here are my 7 quick takes for Friday.

1.) Tomorrow we leave to spend a week in Michigan visiting my parents. I’m very excited to get back to my old stomping grounds and in particular to visit some old high school friends. I’ve been away from Michigan just long enough that it no longer feels like home, but more like a dream I had a long time ago. In many ways familiar and yet in other ways a strange and unfamiliar place.

2.) Summer has started with a bang and my calendar is filling up faster than a bar giving away free beer. This is the first time since I was a young child that summer feels, well, like summer. Special trips to take, fun parties to attend, camps to go to, etc. The weather has been beautiful and I’m relishing living in Texas. Ask me again in August though, when the heat is so bad that I’m begging for somebody to invent a roof for the Earth.

3.) This is the first summer that BOTH of my children will be attending “Nana Camp”. This means I will have an entire week alone, with my husband, at home. I have no idea how we will fill the time, but I expect excessive movie watching will be on the agenda. Oh, and staying up late for no other reason than we don’t have to get up early the next morning.

4.) Did I mention that I’m hoping to launch my redesign on June 10th with a special give away to celebrate?

5.) I have once again ventured into gardening this year. I know I swore up and down that I would never do this again and that if I did you were to stop me. However, I think I’ve made wiser choices this year. I’ve planted container tomatoes and green bell peppers. I’m thinking that these might do better in my South West facing patio. My expectations are really low and if I manage not to kill them by July 1st I’ll consider myself a success.

6.) I’m feeling obligated to say something about Jon&Kate. I never really watched the show except for perhaps a half a dozen times. First, they have eight kids. Eight kids would make anybody crazy . Eight kids are also expensive and I don’t begrudge her or Jon one minute putting their kids on TV. I also think it is silly to think that a marriage can withstand the strain of that many children and being on TV without some problems. The difference between their problems and our problems is that our problems are private. We all have times when we feel like kicking our spouse out of the house and never talking to them again, but those moments aren’t being viewed and judged by all of America. I hope they work it out – I truly do.

7.) I suspect Max is going to learn to swim before he learns to use the potty. Isn’t there something wrong with that? I was hoping he would at least be close to being potty trained by Nana camp, but at this point I’ll be glad if we’ve started the process by Christmas. Has anybody else had a little boy wait this long to use the potty? Max is 3 1/2 and won’t even sit on the potty. That is one seriously controlling 3 year old.

Thanks to Conversion Diary for the idea this week.