What a weekend! Hot, hazy and humid. It isn't even summer yet! It felt like it gets in mid-August. We had threat of thunderstorms so taking the kayaks out to the lake at Cherry Plain was impossible. My husband did not want to get caught in a lightning storm out there in the "boonies" plus the fact it just ain't safe on water. So....he did fix the kayak rack, I mowed that strip of lawn where it normally sits. Now we can get the weed whacker under there, he thinks.
My pink geraniums really took off in this heat! They are gorgeous!! I have them in a pot in my little Amish wagon. So pretty!
Friday evening was a movie with Claire here at home (My Friend, Flicka....the original!). We borrowed it from the library after school as she is at the end of reading the novel & she was wanting to see the movie.
Courtney went to the church coffeehouse with a bunch of her friends from school/youth group.
Dave played taxi service for Courtney and one of the guys who lives on the other side of our town.
Saturday was a day that I had things planned but nothing went according to plan. Life is like that sometimes! Ya gotta roll with it! (a motto that the head teacher I work with uses with the children all the time...some of the special needs kids really needed to learn that this year....and they ARE learning it....ya gotta be flexible....).
So...I headed out the door by 8: 30 a.m. to go to the south part of our town (a whole different school district) where the main offices for the summer recreational programs are located. I signed Claire up for level 4 swimming classes to begin on the 30th at 9 a.m. They are for 10 days with 7/4 off for Independance Day. Cost is only $35.00. Ya can't beat that! The college kids/lifeguards teach the classes. It is a Red Cross certification program so the instruction is very good. My children are required by my husband and I to take lessons up through level 4 and pass. We spend alot of time on the lakes, in pools, and at the ocean so.....thank the Lord they are both like fish and have been swimming since their toddler days. My oldest stopped taking once she passed out of level 5. There are 6 levels. Claire wants to stop after this summer. She just needs to pass! I have been shlepping kids to swimming lessons since the summer of 1999!! I am more than ready to be done with that activity!
Saturday afternoon found me doing some cleaning and then some reading.
Dave took Courtney out to a furniture store located to the south of us and had her choose her birthday gift. (her birthday isn't until July but since it was too humid to do much else....they went shopping!). She had requested a daybed. She got a 4 poster bed when she was 6 but it was a cheap one. Not real wood. Not well made. We had purchased it at a warehouse that we really like for their Shaker style furniture and pine wood stuff but they don't sell good beds. Her bed was literally falling apart. So....she chose a gorgeous Mission style (goes well with the Shaker style desk, dresser and bookcase she has already) in light oak. They brought it home in 3 pieces. I would have paid for it to be delivered, set up and the old one torn down. That is the difference between a man and a woman. I just cringed....and then....
She and I disassembled her old bed, carted the pieces out to the side of the house to await garbage pick-up day, and Dave and she put her new bed together while I finished cleaning up the dinner dishes.
My pink geraniums really took off in this heat! They are gorgeous!! I have them in a pot in my little Amish wagon. So pretty!
Friday evening was a movie with Claire here at home (My Friend, Flicka....the original!). We borrowed it from the library after school as she is at the end of reading the novel & she was wanting to see the movie.
Courtney went to the church coffeehouse with a bunch of her friends from school/youth group.
Dave played taxi service for Courtney and one of the guys who lives on the other side of our town.
Saturday was a day that I had things planned but nothing went according to plan. Life is like that sometimes! Ya gotta roll with it! (a motto that the head teacher I work with uses with the children all the time...some of the special needs kids really needed to learn that this year....and they ARE learning it....ya gotta be flexible....).
So...I headed out the door by 8: 30 a.m. to go to the south part of our town (a whole different school district) where the main offices for the summer recreational programs are located. I signed Claire up for level 4 swimming classes to begin on the 30th at 9 a.m. They are for 10 days with 7/4 off for Independance Day. Cost is only $35.00. Ya can't beat that! The college kids/lifeguards teach the classes. It is a Red Cross certification program so the instruction is very good. My children are required by my husband and I to take lessons up through level 4 and pass. We spend alot of time on the lakes, in pools, and at the ocean so.....thank the Lord they are both like fish and have been swimming since their toddler days. My oldest stopped taking once she passed out of level 5. There are 6 levels. Claire wants to stop after this summer. She just needs to pass! I have been shlepping kids to swimming lessons since the summer of 1999!! I am more than ready to be done with that activity!
Saturday afternoon found me doing some cleaning and then some reading.
Dave took Courtney out to a furniture store located to the south of us and had her choose her birthday gift. (her birthday isn't until July but since it was too humid to do much else....they went shopping!). She had requested a daybed. She got a 4 poster bed when she was 6 but it was a cheap one. Not real wood. Not well made. We had purchased it at a warehouse that we really like for their Shaker style furniture and pine wood stuff but they don't sell good beds. Her bed was literally falling apart. So....she chose a gorgeous Mission style (goes well with the Shaker style desk, dresser and bookcase she has already) in light oak. They brought it home in 3 pieces. I would have paid for it to be delivered, set up and the old one torn down. That is the difference between a man and a woman. I just cringed....and then....
She and I disassembled her old bed, carted the pieces out to the side of the house to await garbage pick-up day, and Dave and she put her new bed together while I finished cleaning up the dinner dishes.
Here is a picture of the kind of bed she bought. This pic is from a website. Her bedding is a robin's eggshell blue bedspread with swirls of blue, teal, aqua and white. The back of her bed has pillows all across it in various pinks, a Cheetah girl one, a Spirit one, a high school music basketball one, and a pink hershey kiss one. Plus she has various stuffed animals displayed: her favorite horse (she has 10 more under the bed, peeking out), a penguin, a cheetah, a build-a-bear dog, a poodle webkinz. Probably more. I just can't remember! Yeah...she collects stuffed animals like I collect mugs and hiking books! I am thankful I didn't need to go and buy all new bedding. We kept the mattress from the old bed to use on the new one as the mattress we had bought at a great mattress store so it is still like new.
That evening, Claire played in the basement playroom and the rest of us started a movie based on Shakespeare's play "The Tempest". (again, from the library!) We started it late: 10 pm. Needless to say, we didn't make it. We all were falling asleep. And we had church the next a.m. So.....
That evening, Claire played in the basement playroom and the rest of us started a movie based on Shakespeare's play "The Tempest". (again, from the library!) We started it late: 10 pm. Needless to say, we didn't make it. We all were falling asleep. And we had church the next a.m. So.....After church on Sunday, Dave took us out for lunch. We went to Nothing but Noodles. I will never go back to eat pasta there. I ordered the Pasta Primavera (I love fresh veggies!). It was dripping in oil/grease. I called this place "the McDonald's of Pasta restaurants." My husband loves their potstickers. Courtney loves their spaghetti and meatballs. Claire tolerated the mozzarella breadsticks. She loved the cotton candy. The rest of us loved the triple layer Chocolate liqueur cake. (what's not to love about chocolate layer cake smothered in a chocolate-raspberry liqueur??!!) Dave and I shared a piece. It would have been romantic but for the kids, the crowd and my heartburn from the food! I should have gone with my gut instinct to get the mandarin chicken salad. I bet it wasn't greasy!
Late Sunday afternoon, after Courtney was done with HW, Claire played a computer game while we tackled Tempest again. It was a good movie (from the 1970's...my teen was cracking up at the styles) featuring Susan Sarandon and Molly Ringwald (as a young teen). There was quite a bit of swearing which we did not like and it really added nothing of value to the script but....it was ok. I'm glad it was free as that isn't something we would have wanted to pay for.
After the movie, I organized my weekly menu (dinners) and cut coupons to use at the grocery store today. I bought alot of fresh veggies and fruits today along with some great meat buys. Salmon is gonna go on the grill for tonite....actually I am cheating and using my Pampered Chef over the stove grill because it is too darn humid out there to stand and grill.
So...if you have actually been reading all this nonsense, you must be enjoying central air as well....I know I have been enjoying browsing blogs today and avoiding the outdoors. But...need to go check on the girls to make sure homework is done and I know one of them will want a turn on this computer so....
Come back tomorrow for a new treat I discovered AND a delicious new recipe for an easy summer dinner! Around our house in the summer: the simpler, the better!
Late Sunday afternoon, after Courtney was done with HW, Claire played a computer game while we tackled Tempest again. It was a good movie (from the 1970's...my teen was cracking up at the styles) featuring Susan Sarandon and Molly Ringwald (as a young teen). There was quite a bit of swearing which we did not like and it really added nothing of value to the script but....it was ok. I'm glad it was free as that isn't something we would have wanted to pay for.
After the movie, I organized my weekly menu (dinners) and cut coupons to use at the grocery store today. I bought alot of fresh veggies and fruits today along with some great meat buys. Salmon is gonna go on the grill for tonite....actually I am cheating and using my Pampered Chef over the stove grill because it is too darn humid out there to stand and grill.
So...if you have actually been reading all this nonsense, you must be enjoying central air as well....I know I have been enjoying browsing blogs today and avoiding the outdoors. But...need to go check on the girls to make sure homework is done and I know one of them will want a turn on this computer so....
Come back tomorrow for a new treat I discovered AND a delicious new recipe for an easy summer dinner! Around our house in the summer: the simpler, the better!
2 comments:
It's been cool and raining around our place so there's no grilling going on here. I haven't seen the Pampered Chef over the stove grill. I'll have to check into it.
Your girls bed is lovely. I'll bet she'll just love it.
Praise the Lord for A/C! :)
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