Relatives

I am just so happy now that relatives are here! Every minute is full of excitement. Today Campbell and I babysat Liam again for a bit. He is the cutest and when he smiles it just makes you smile too. He likes to play with my hair and pat it down infront of my eyes and then giggles everytime I blow it away with my mouth. He has the cutest little tummy too. I love baby tummys. They're always so chubby :) He is definitely an observer. He is a year and a half old, but is sooo quiet...except when he's crying. But he'll ignore you if he's playing with something he finds fascinating. Like today he discovered cabinets and just would open and close the doors over and over again, putting his sippy cup in and then taking it back out. Brookie acts so happy when we babysit for a few hours, but Campbell and I both just want to keep him all day.


Tonight we're having a bonfire over at the Stull camp and a cooking out for dinner. We haven't done stuff like this in years.

Last night we all played Catchphrase and the whole lake could probably hear us because we were just screaming and laughing. It was so much fun.


Campbell and I also had a long talk...more like venting time. She's kinda like the sister I never had and even though she's five years older than me, she's always wanted to hang out with me anyway. I remember she was the first person who got me into Beanie Babies. With so many boys in the Dempsey family, I've always loved having Campbell up here in the summer.


Even though it's summer, I'm still so stressed about school. I've already read 4/6 of my summer reading books and the one i'm on now is so long and so boring. The other one I haven't even bought yet since I might end up dropping the class. My AP US History class this year has a summer assignment of four essays, three outlines, and a chapter reading from the textbook. I've only done one outline so far and I'm just dreading the essays.


I can't understand why schools give such a large amount of work to students during summer. The whole point of vacation is to relax, and yeah, I understand it's an AP course, but it still seems like too much. With all the work that I'll be doing during the year, why give more during summer?? It's like this weight that's on my shoulders and I feel guilty every minute I waste or am just being lazy because I think to myself how I should be doing work right now. It seems like once you reach high school, the rest of your life is just gonna be things to get through. You have high school, then college, then a full time job, or just raising kids and keeping up a house. It's frustrating. I complain a lot. I know, but sometimes I just want to scream.


Wow, sorry I'm ending on such a downer. I'm really in a good mood, but that's just how it's gone...



~M