100 degrees

It's hot as Hades but when you have sisters who run a spa and a mom who due to her dislike of extreme heat happily obliges all requests for strawberry milkshakes, it's a very good life.

A germ free back!

In a very sweet gesture one of the girls rubbed my back over the weekend.  She even went to the trouble of using lotion, except she didn't use lotion, she used antibacterial hand soap...because hey, they're similar??  That night I broke out in hives and ever since my back itches like crazy!  Never a dull moment.

Just add water

I mowed what remains of our poor parched yard yesterday afternoon, it was 93 degrees and just plain hot.  Sweaty and tired from the job I turned on the hose to cool off and instantly got a great idea...an obstacle course!  I knew the girls would be hot, hot, hot after their walk home from school and figured a simple little obstacle course might just make their day.

Tomato picking wasn't on the course but they were just too tempting!  We have been getting a steady stream of cherry tomatoes for a few weeks now but no regular sized tomatoes yet.  We've got a ton of tomatoes on our plants though and while I'm trying not to count my tomatoes before they ripen  I'm thinking that with this heat it will be nothing but BLTs and caprese salad this weekend....or at least I'm sure hoping that's the case!

So many reasons every single day to smile

Lucy loves the tv show Kipper.  One of the main characters is a dog named Tiger.  Today she was telling me how funny he is.  I said...Tiger is so funny!  She laughed "not Tigurr mommy, I'm talking about Tigah".  Which made me laugh because all of the characters on Kipper have a British accent, and she's right it's Tigah not Tigurr.

Who needs a desk?

Not these girls!  

Simple Saturday

It was so nice to wake up this morning and know--it's Saturday!  

These girls are down in our basement right now working on their fort....they've spent hours working on it and playing in it!   Eleanor had her friend Libby sleep over and Emma went to Libby's house to have a sleep over with Libby's sister Natalie.  It's so nice when that works out and the girls can have their own time in the house.  

Today's agenda includes an 8-2  training at church for Kevin, breakfast with Christy (I better get going on those pancakes!), a soccer clinic for Eleanor, and church this evening.  What a lovely Saturday!

In less happy news, Janie is still not 100%--BLEH!!  The back door is not latching all the way and this is draining the battery, also the back door seems to be opening with a little less finesse every time we use it.  Oh boy.  Looks like I'll be talking to Stu again on Monday.

She's back!

51 days and 3055 miles later and she's back in service.  Happy day!