Tuesday, August 27, 2013

I absolutely, positively, without a doubt, can't stop thinking about, how much I love FALL!

That was probably a weird non-realistic sentence, but that's okay.  My point is - Fall is upon us - shortly - and I can't wait!!  It's hard to think about fall, when it's literally 104 degrees outside, but I have faith that it will cool down very soon.  This weekend is Labor Day weekend (my unofficial start date of the Autumnal Equinox - I know, it's actually September 22) the first day of Fall!   For me Fall starts on Tuesday, September 3, the first day of school for Minnesota high schools. My whole school career that is what signified the start of Fall for me and I think I'm just going to keep thinking about it that way.  I cannot wait for cooler days.  It's been even too hot for walks outside, so I'm looking forward to doing that.  Fall makes my life a little busier, but I'm not complaining.  Tuesday starts swimming lessons for my little girl and Wednesday night they do baby story time at the local library so we might try that.  My weekends are already pretty much packed until November, and even November is busy but I'm not thinking about that too much yet.  Anyway, I can't wait to pull out my canner and get the fruit that is in my freezer done and get my tomatoes turned into yummy salsa.  I've been on Pinterest a little today while babygirl naps and I found some awesome pictures of fall and little sayings that remind me again how much I love the season, so I will leave you with this:

Everything I love and can't get enough of about FALL

Oh and this picture, I think I have to find it for Gwen: 

Fall for Gwen <3

Oh and one more thing: I have a mom date tonight and I am so excited!  It's Endless Pasta at Olive Garden right now and 4 other moms and I are leaving the kids with dad and heading there tonight - can't wait!! We never get to visit sans kids so it will be nice :) We love our kiddos but one of us is always running off to fix the latest crisis.  

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

And so it goes...

Well hello again dear Blog,

I've neglected you once again.  This time it's been for very good reason.  We've been a traveling...for some fun reasons - and some not so fun reasons.  First of all, we took a much needed mini family vaca to the cabin for a whole weekend.  That sounds crazy, I know, but the hubby had a Saturday and Sunday off so we took off late Friday night and did it.  It was fabulous!  

Then, we received devastating news on Tuesday morning the 13th that hubby's 19  year old cousin died in a car accident the night before.  It was a terrible week.  We ended it with going to the funeral and paying our respects.  No mother should have to bury a child and that's all I will say about that.  It is truly tragic.

The weekend brought some fun when my BFF and her little girl came to visit and we went blueberry picking and to the pool.  It's tough when you have littles that have a schedule and need naps and go to bed early because you can't squeeze that much in, but it was a wonderful weekend visit and I can't wait to see them again.

This week I've been cleaning up.  And going to a birthday party. And going to a new book club meeting to get signed up.  And tomorrow I'm babysitting. And Saturday we have a wedding.  And then it's already a new week! EEK!  Time is flying.

Well, in about 84 minutes I have a lady from the "La Crosse Welcome Committee" coming to give me a welcome packet full of gift cards and brochures, etc, so I feel like I need to clean up my mess a bit.

Until next time, Mr. Blog.

Thursday, August 8, 2013

Feeling Too Plugged In

I find myself too plugged in these days - not so much via my blog (obviously!) but with facebook and texting...it's very time consuming.  And I don't like it one bit!  This weekend I'm making a promise to myself and my family that I'm unplugging.  Admittedly, I'm starting small....I'm just putting my phone on silent and checking it once or twice a day....and I'm not checking facebook!  And then once I get a handle on that, I plan on shutting off the phone for a whole weekend at a time.

Oh, I forgot to tell you about what we've been up to - we had a house full of people for about 5 days.  We celebrated a Baptism and had multiple cookouts!  It was a great time, but I'm exhausted and we still aren't cleaned up from last weekend's fun!

Whew!  Better get back to it!