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One day we will miss this

Our Warrior photobombing the Neighbor’s Ice Cream Mascot’s photo.

Taking a cue from my dear friend, D, whose daughters are grown and spread their wings…..one day all this noise and crazy will be over and we will miss it. So, when we have a super crazy day or week or season, I try to remember this. Today it was my mantra.

Starting at 5:30 a.m. with my coffee and wake up

6 a.m. waking 2 of 4 kiddos

Leaving house at 7:15 with our youngest son for him to assume his position as school mascot at a “Mascot Breakfast” prior to our town’s parade and fall family festival

Hubby takes our youngest daughter to her game for cheer at 7:45 a.m.

I take our mascot to meet his school band where he assumes his role as Band Captain for the parade.

Oldest son heads out for a day of skateboarding with friends.

Parade ends and we head home about 11.

I take our oldest daughter across town to hit the beach with a friend and her family and then go grocery shopping.

Hubby brings youngest home to prep for a birthday party.

Hubby goes for a 20 mile bike ride (he’s training for a November triathlon).

I run youngest daughter to birthday party.

It’s only 1 p.m.

Youngest son goes for a bike ride with friends.

Now, if you’ve done the math and followed carefully you will see what happened here this day.

NO. KIDS. IN. THE. HOUSE.

FOR. TWO. HOURS.

Guess what we did?

Napped.

***Disclaimer: don’t feel too sorry for me, because in between the parade drop off and parade start I had an hour to kill and promptly hit Target, Starbucks and chatted with my girlfriend on the phone for a lengthy and overdue chat (in fact I talked to TWO girlfriends at length today) and then went to dinner with my mom and my sister who were both in town. Therefore, it was a crazy and well-executed start to the day, but a grand, grand finish!

Dinner on the water with these two awesome beauties? Yes, please!

Don’t blink

5 Faves of this week

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What? Two posts in two days? Don’t get used to it, people. The cheer schedule changed a bit and by some strange twist of fate I have my laptop all to myself, so Imma gonna go with it!

Linking it up with Hallie @ Moxie Wife via Grace @ Camp Patton. Confused? Don’t be. It’s all good. Link to either and you get lots of goodies!

Here’s mine:

1. My Pinterest food boards coming through for dessert for work luncheon tomorrow. We chose these, my awesome 11 yo made them and we all had a little bitty taste test. You know. Just to be sure and all. We were out of sprinkles (travesty) but it didn’t seem to hurt these dense and super sweet little babies.

original post from HERE

2. Evernote and recipes. Totally saved dinner tonight. Or created dinner tonight. Either way you look at it. Awesome!!

fresh off my phone, yo!

3. More foodish items. Do you like chai tea? I do. My friend told me about this new Tazo flavor and I had a cup this evening for a little pick me up to make it through the evening. Yum. Like a spicy chocolate milk. It’s still 90 degrees here, so I drank mine on iced almond milk…you can make it hot if you prefer.

yes, please!

4. This dude. Ah, that we were all so completely confident to sleep so completely and blissfully aware of the mulch hanging from our rear ends.

5. This dude. So completely confident in himself that he wore his sister’s headband in his hair like this ALL. DAY. LONG. to school. Then he was inspired by this the ‘do to seek a new cut….scheduled for Saturday. Love him and his manly poser poses.

Now go on and check out all the other fun faves for the week!

Summer time sendoff at the Springs

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The Hubby and I took a couple of days off at the end of the week before the kids went back to school. One of the days we went to the springs. I don’t know why we haven’t been before. It was beautiful, crisp and COLD and since it was a weekday….uncrowded.

The swimming part of the springs is concreted off, similar to a swimming pool…around the edges but still plenty of rocks, sand and algae on the bottom and crystal clear. The swimming area is separated from the river with a lovely walkway with a jumping platform on one side and waterfall on the other side.

The restaurant portion offers AYCE pancakes for about $5.

Behind the restaurant are the remains of the original mill.

Swimming and jumping in super clear and crisp 70degree F water.

Sad to say the ole Fountain o’ Youth was bone dry.

Road Trippin’ for a Friend Fix

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There lies the season where I miss my friends. It’s a crazy thing, getting older. Not as simple to make friends any more. Everyone is busy. Everyone has baggage. And so I remember the plaque that hung in my grandmother’s kitchen from a hundred years ago….(or 40):

Make new friends, but keep the old;

The new are silver and the old are gold.

These friendships have weathered life’s storms: Cancer, infertility, marriage struggles, divorce, faith struggles, death of a child, children with emergency surgery, financial drain, suicide, depression, alcoholism, prison, poor health, aging parents, death of parents, miscarriage, many children, few children, job changes, bullying, education challenges, children growing up and moving away, children with faith crises, deployment, moving, starting over, making new friends and the list goes…..it is life. Distance may separate us, however, these life cords forever bind us.

So worth the road trip with my girls to visit these dear friends. We didn’t get to make ALL the rounds due to end-of-summer craziness and that only makes the argument for another visit and for visitors here. Life’s too short, make the effort, you won’t regret it.

Rollin’ with my homies.

making the trek

Trekking through life: Faith, family, friends and a whole lot of coffee!