Lazy summer days

So I realize that I'm posting almost a week after all the parties went down. I think I'm just recuperating, or being lazy, or maybe I've been doing 15 loads of laundry and hanging them all out because it absolutely gorgeous outside!! The kids have found the garden hose and are busily creating water worms in the lawn and then constructing dams of sand. It's all an elaborate fantasy world and I don't have the heart to stop them ("Your wasting water." "Sand stays in the sandbox." "You guys are a filthy mess!") because they are having so much fun.