It’s been forever since I’ve done a musings post!!  Here goes…

I absolutely adore Lilly’s linen beach pants.  I picked this pair up at the After Party sale and they are just perfection for fall…

On the background of another After Party score, I was kind of digging this fortune and felt so fortunate to give it a check, check, check, check on all accounts.  It had me thinking way deeper than normal over my egg roll at work.

Speaking of reflection, I have walked by a certain traditional cheerfully painted yellow house every day on my walk for years.  A month or so ago I noticed they put on a new front porch.  Then a week ago I noticed the porch had been torn off.  Yesterday the house was nearly gone, with the exception of the fireplace in what was once the den.  I guess the owners had put on a new porch to help sell it and then the new owners tore it off to knock the whole thing down.  It made me so sad to see the fireplace that probably had Christmas stockings and school photos hanging on it for forty some odd years standing there so tall and proud amidst the rubble.  So many homes in my neighborhood are being knocked down.  Some of them need it, and many of them could just use a little TLC.  This little yellow house always looked so happy to me.  I hated to see it go.

I’ve been running ragged between baseball W) and our first lacrosse season (J).  Some nights it’s straight to one from the other.  And sometimes that calls for a very bad for you pick-me-up at the QT.  Their vanilla cokes are the best.

Another early morning walk picture… a cotton candy sunrise.

I loooooove BBQ.  Like LOVE it.  I recently had Swallow at the Hollow at a function and could not even believe the mac and cheese.  How have I not known about this place?!?!

The baby had me in tears over his list of words with the glued sound “all”.  He’s southern through and through.

One of my fave things about fall is pumpkin everything.  Pumpkin coffee, pumpkin creamer, pumpkin waffles, and of course pumpkin bagels from Panera.  They are SO good.  I cut mine in half because I wasn’t even hungry when I popped in for one.  So I carried it home and ate half.  And then about ten minutes later I couldn’t stand it any longer and ate the other half.  Yeahhhhhh.

I love that these kids, at ages almost seven and almost ten, still love playing with empty boxes.   These were worth hours of entertainment!

Is it just me or is Star Wars popping up on everything these days? Don’t get me wrong, I love it.  But seriously, I’m buying all sorts of junk food I would normally never buy just because it’s Star Wars.  Chicken noodle soup, Cheez-Its, gummies, and now three bottles of creamer I don’t even need.  Yes, I bought all three.  Because I did eenie meenie miney moe and then threw up my hands and threw them all in the buggy.

Speaking of eenie meenie miney moe, John taught us the latest little hand clapping game thingy that kids these days are using to pick who is “it”.  I can’t get it out of my head…  Down by the banks of the hanky pank bullfrogs jump from bank to bank.  Say eeps ipes oops opes chilly willy ding dong.  I pledge allegiance to the flag.  Michael Jackson makes me gag.  Coca-Cola burns my butt, now we’re talking seven up.  Seven up has no caffeine, now we’re talking Billy Dean.  Billy Dean is outta sight, now we’re talking dynamite.  Dynamite blew up the school, now we’re talking really cool.  Ten nine eight seven six five for three two one.  You’re IT!

Does anyone else have this running through their head?  Anyone?????  I’m the only one?  Somehow I figured.

xoxo