The Good Life

Last week we had absolutely gorgeous weather.  I'm talking about the kind of days that you just hate to see end because it's just so beautiful!  Now, I realize that many of my posts talk about the weather.  But, when your life pretty much revolves around your children and their activities, the great outdoors largely determines what you can do and how happy everyone is.  My children are happiest outdoors so when the weather is good, life is good!  And, last week, life was sooooo good.  Playing in our tee-pee that Gma Karen made was a big hit.
 Ah, this girl makes me so happy....she's getting so big!

 The big kids got out the "Bendaroos" at some point last week too and they ended up making Kari some pretty fancy jewelry.  Complete with a pink tiara, earrings, necklace, and bracelet!  It makes me so happy that my children are friends with one another.  Well, on most days they are!  One of the good things about having siblings is that there's always someone to play with!

This picture also makes me smile.  Some nights, story time mirrors the song, "Love at Home."  Other nights, it resembles the song, "Master the Tempest is Raging."  This night was the first and we all do love the story about Jillian Jiggs and her messy room. (It's an book that my mom read to us--I highly recommend finding it out and reading it to your children.)  So, I had to document!

Our summer is flying by...some days we swim.  Other days we play with friends.  Some days are filled with both.  Not too shabby, if I do say so myself!  I'm exhausted by the end of each day, so I assume our kids are too.  Here's to the good life!

It's Like I'm Seeing Myself on TV!

So, a funny thing has been happening lately. Cubby and I have realized that our lives are more closely resembling that of the Heck family (ABC's "The Middle") than we're wanting to admit.

Take the following cases in point:

1) Their couch looks almost exactly like ours.

2) Brick's bedding is from Ikea and is the exact same as Em's and C's.

3) In the most recent episode, it begins to rain and the whole family rushes inside to break out as many pots and pans as they can as their roof is leaking. Yes, our roof is leaking! Not everywhere like theirs is, thankfully, but over our entryway--it drips everytime there is a heavy rain. (Cubby will be heading up into the crawl space this weekend to remedy this!)

4) The Heck's sliding glass door. Or, rather, their extremely-difficult-to-slide-ing glass door. Anyone who has tried to open our back door will understand why Cubby and I were rolling as Frankie tried to open it up. And, to top it off, they even have the same cheap blinds on said door as we do!

Cubby made the point that obviously, since they're making a point that this happens to the Hecks, it must happen to a LOT of people out there. But, I do get the feeling sometimes that ABC must have some secret insight into our home--all of these "coincidences" are just too funny to ignore!

My, How Times Have Changed

Cubby emailed me this link--it's of a bunch of old advertisements and I couldn't be-lieve some of the stuff that was advertised (and how they went about selling it!) Maybe living in a totally "PC" world isn't all that bad! "The harder you work, the cuter you get!" REALLY??

http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/entertainment/2010/06/10/vintage-ads-thinking