Sleepover 101

 1. Ask parents if you can have a sleepover with your sibling.

2. Move one mattress to the adjacent room, which just so happens to be brother's.

3. Pull his mattress down.

4. Chat, giggle, laugh.

 5. Repeat #4. Over and over until "lights out."

Hooray for Sleepovers!

It's a Garden Out There!

My black thumb isn't so black after all. Back in May M and I threw a couple of seeds into a planter box. Less than three months later, that up there is what it looks like. So far the lettuce is the only thing we've been able to harvest, and we have lettuce to give away! It's been fun stepping outside our door empty handed and coming back with what's for dinner.

I put the picture below up on Instagram with the caption of "Is that a cucumber, or are you just happy to see me?"

Upon further review, it's not a cucumber. It's squash. Whether or not it's happy to see me is a rhetorical question, but I'm certainly happy to see it! I'll be even more happy if we get some tomatoes.

D had to trim it down yesterday because it's getting unruly. There are all kinds of life forms being one with nature on that little plot. And, frankly, it grosses me out some.

It truly is a jungle garden out there!

Just Sayin'

When our house was being built I asked about air conditioning.

They told me I wouldn't need it.

They lied.

I'm not complaining. I'm just sayin'. 

Summa.....So Far

I've taken some pictures since school got out almost six weeks ago:

BOO for summer being almost over!

Mini Camp: Then and Now

Back in the summer of 2009 my neighbor and I signed up our boys for a couple of mini camps at the Olympia Center. It got them out of the house for a few hours; they enjoyed them; and they were cheap.

Here they are leaving after a fun-filled couple of hours.

Fast forward to 2012 and the street above is now a beautiful walkway lined with sculptures by local artists that leads to the boardwalk.

2012 hosts a different set of friends attending the same camps; each the little sister of the male version.

I feel so lucky that the paths of our two families have crossed and that our kids have found in each other somebody they can call "Friend."