Finders Keepers

Edition: Don't Mind Me...


I've tried hard. Really hard, you guys. I didn't want to talk about, post, comment, or have any reminder of what the world as I know it sounds and looks like right now.

But I can't help it any more. I will share my misery.

Dear cicada population,
You are GROSS. You are an annoyance like I have never seen. I consider every single one of you that I hit with my windshield a small victory.
Your life has no meaning.
The End.

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In an effort to keep my mind off of the 'round-the-clock cicada hum, I console myself with some of the following things. 
Well, I blame it on the cicada's, anyway.

Have I looked at the nutrition label? No. Do I plan to? Double no.

This is the first thing I have ever actually sent Ben to the store for, specifically. For one item. At night.

Amen.

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Go ahead, you know you want one.

When the tomatoes showed up on our farmer's table last week, and my lettuce started going crazy in the garden, that's all it took. Favorite weeknight meal of the season. A simple, thick-cut bacon BLT with a juicy tomato sprinkled with some salt and pepper...yeah, baby.

Ok, true confession here.  We love Disney movies. I say we because this includes Ben, myself and our child. The family that plays together, stays together! Or watches movies. Whatever floats our boat, yo.
When Ben and I got married and joined our Disney movie collection together, it was a beautiful thing. Don't hate. :)
Grandmama gave Kaelyn this about a month ago, because um, she's a genius. And let's just say that road trips and the portable dvd player are an awesome combo. Kaelyn calls it the "horsey movie", because we also know how to pick our favorite characters. The horse in Tangled owns me. 
Go watch it if you haven't already, and tell me you didn't love it even more than the kiddos.
That's what I thought.

Right before our Audra (hi, Audra!! :) moved far, far away from me and took our lunch dates, hugs, and sewing talent with her, she taught me how to turn on my inherited sewing machine and actually do something with it (we'd only been talking about it for 2 years. I could just hit myself.) I now know how to somewhat make a skirt for Kaelyn, and my fears of sewing were eliminated (this is a small miracle, you have no idea). I now have high aspirations for making some burp cloths, onesies, and more skirts once we are done with our summer traveling to Savannah, Tuscaloosa, and Dauphin Island.


Because after getting back from all of the fun in the sun, vacations, wedding bliss (yay Chris and Jill!!!) and a week of this, I'm going to need something to do:

Rented by my fabulous and ever-amazing in-laws, a place for the whole family to hang out and enjoy the good things in life for a while. It even has a golf cart so you can scoot yourself , or some waddling pregnant woman, on down to the beach whenever you so please.
Don't wake me if I'm dreamin'.


Peace out,
dae