If I didn’t know better, I’d think I was a football fan. Ha! Don’t care too much about the sport but I love the pomp, circumstance and socializing. We have taken the boys to the high school football games since we moved here 12 years ago. We couldn’t attend in 2020 and neither could our… Read More
When the kids are away, the moms will play! With the kids back to school and a lovely pool that I’ve barely used in the backyard, I hosted the neighborhood moms for a fun Friday. We talked, sunned, floated and enjoyed lunch together before the littlest ones in the group were needing to be picked… Read More
With the boys on different school schedules again this year, I did a first day of school supper rather than our “special snack” of elementary school. As an aside, I won’t have them back on the same schedule until they are a freshman and a senior. Time flies. Hold on tight mamas. I chose a… Read More
Just like that and school is back in session!!! I know, I know…. we go back ridiculously early. We do! But, my kids know no different. We get 10 weeks of summer and a couple extra week long breaks during the school year and we really do like the schedule. While the night before was… Read More
We spent our last Summer day of the year swimming, watching a movie and enjoying a favorite supper at home. The summer days felt long, but the weeks flew by. John completed Spanish III online, spent many nights with his friends, continued to work on driving, and loved traveling all over the East Coast with… Read More
I’ve packed up the flags and fish and flower door hangers that were remnants of summer and pulled out the school things! We were gone so much in July that our house needs some tending to. You can see here that a wind storm blew a vacant bird nest off its perch (upper right). The… Read More
I shared back in the fall that we were gathering the sixth graders for Backyard Huddles throughout the school year. There is a really small group of kids, just those in our subdivision, that move together to middle school. (The vast majority are districted to a different school.) Along with my co-host and sweet neighbor,… Read More