Summer Days

Happy weekend, y’all!  I was so excited when Olga over at Stardust – Decor & Style invited me to guest post on my family room.  Hop on over there and check it out!! Now, we’re just three weeks in and our summer days are turning out to be everything we had hoped…full of doing just as we please with no hard fast plans.  We’ve crossed a few things off of our First Summer Vacation Ever bucket list and have added a few new ones as well. SummerBucketList copy2 As far as the aforementioned list goes, we’ve hit up the library, completed Vacation Bible School, started working on first grade math, read TWENTY books (!), chalked up loads of pool days, gone mini golfing with Daddy, used the zip line a gazillion times, played family games more nights than not, tended to our garden and already started to enjoy the fruits of our labor, built at least a hundred indoor forts, and had our evening baths on the slip n slide (you know, the whole kill two birds with one stone thing.).June 2012 289 photo (7) photo (6) June 2012 315 June 2012 316 June 2012 331Now for off the list activities, the littles concocted a game called “Undie Dodge Ball”…  (I suppose they were desperate for a valid reason to throw armfuls of underwear at each other.) June 2012 233  June 2012 235 We’ve played some good old fashioned back yard baseball… photo (19) Some of us have driven the (darned) rocket cart around the grocery store while dressed like a super hero… photo (20)And, we’ve had friends over to help dig in the front yard where the gigantic oak tree fell down this spring.  We’ve been using this free entertainment as a lingering excuse to not haul a truck load of pinestraw out here to fix it.  I mean, as embarrassing of an eye sore as it may be, this pile of dirt has logged hundreds of hours of fun. photo (21)I suppose this weekend will bring more of the same.  And I couldn’t be happier about that! xoxo

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Dallas

I don’t know about y’all but I’ve lightly mourned the loss of the great television soap operas I grew up on (you know, the likes of Days of Our Lives and Guiding Light) for a few years now.  So, I was beyond excited to have this little piece of American nostalgia back for consumption by… Read More

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On My Bedside

At the expense of my full DVR, I’ve been spending my evenings after the littles are in bed reading rather than watching the tele.  The Night Circus This is a beautifully written and mesmerizing story.  I enjoyed every word on every page. I very, ever so rarely read a book twice, but if I did… Read More

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Parrotheads

Atlanta parrotheads united at Lakewood to spend a day tailgating and cocktailing in festive anticipation of Jimmy Buffett taking the stage last night.  It’s a revered and not to be missed tradition in this family – I think I’ve only been absent from two shows in my eighteen years (gasp!) in Atlanta.   With sangria,… Read More

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