Part Bob Villa, part Martha Stewart, part Taxi Driver!

That's exactly how Eric and I are feeling these days. After an exhaustive process to make Taylor's room "her own" it's now finished! Eric hand-made the bookshelf hutch that's proudly sitting on her desk (the desk and walls and freshly painted too.) I made her duvet cover since we couldn't find anything that matched her decor choice of pink/brown that wasn't too "surfer", "little kid", or "old lady." The result... a pink and brown extravaganza that any tweenager would love. What's a tween? Any little lady who's too big to hang with her little sister's friends, and too young to hang out with parents and teenagers. Yes, we're officially in the land of limbo with Taylor. Some days we're cool parents, and other days we're the weirdest people in the world!

In addition to the redecorating this summer, the kids are enjoying camps... which means I'm driving all over the OC. But the smiles on their faces are very worth it. Sammie loved her camp last week which incorporated the "Magic Tree House" book series into a series of crafts and things that kids could cook themselves. She did this class with her friend Lucy and loved it! This week Taylor is taking a robotics class at the Discovery Science Center. (http://www.discoverycube.org/) You should know from the getgo that Taylor is a harsh critic of anything camplike... especially if it's educational too. AND... she's loving it! Each day she's talked for about 10 minutes straight about what they've done in class and what they're going to do the next day. So it looks like we've found the right kind of camp to interest Taylor and I'll be searching out more options like this next year.

Next week we'll be at our church every day for Vacation Bible School, and I'll be leading a Crew of 10 kids along with one student leader the whole week. My student leader is Elyssa, which is the middle daughter of the Lim family (we traveled to Africa with them this past April.) It's going to be great fun to share this experience with her as well.

So for now I'll get back to my reading (book 5 of the Harry Potter series) and relax in the midst of my Taxi driver summer. But don't get me wrong, I wouldn't trade it for anything! However, it would only be better to share this week and next with Eric, but he's traveling for work (next week to Hawaii... bummer huh!)