**this morning annie looked in the mirror and said "i think i'm having a bad hair day"
to which gracie replied "it looks like THAT EVERY DAY."
and annie said "well, THANKS sissy."
all said with great sarcasm. i laughed hysterically. the apples don't fall far from the trees sometimes.
**we're watching true grit right now. i feel like we're doing something illegal. we hardly ever watch a movie let alone on a "school night." fortunately i have busy work to do while watching like, folding laundry, blogging, cutting out box tops (joy) and cutting out letters for VBS decorations.
let me just tell you that if you think helping on the vbs decoration committee gets you out of actually teaching at VBS...well...you thought wrong.
i'm in charge of a 2nd grade class. not a helper, not doing crafts. in charge. now who thought that was a good idea?
**i did something crazy and unlike me. i got in the bod pod at the club this evening. it's this pod thing that measures weight and percentage of lean muscle mass. it told me i needed to lose 6 pounds.
i promptly came home and ate a gallon of ice cream to drown my sorrows (not really, we didn't have any in the house).
**i've been thinking a lot about my run last friday and why it was so, so bad. i felt like there had to be other reasons, aside from my shoes, that were part of my demise.
do you think that, maybe just maybe, eating a theo dark chocolate bar with almond and cranberries in place of lunch or half of your child's chocolate easter bunny in place of dinner is not proper nutrition?
**we spent father's day weekend at the townhome. had a nice lazy saturday and invited some new friends over for dinner since eric said i was cooking enough for 10.
on the menu: grilled new york and filet mignon, grilled garlic shrimp, grilled asparagus, homemade mac and cheese (you can find it here. it made a ton but we ate most of it. it was so good and the kids liked it too. it will become a townhome side dish staple) cilantro butter for the corn on the cob the neighbors brought, a corn, tomato and cilantro salad
and cheesecake bars with chocolate ganache. uh yeah, will be making these again. and again and again and again. and surprisingly, 3 out of the 4 kids ate them. once guess as to who wouldn't eat the rest of hers. apparently it was "too chocolatey." turd.

we ate our dessert at the neighbors and the kids made s'mores around their cool little fire pit.

and while making their s'mores, they got an education in what happens when crazy aunt sally drinks too much at the wedding that was being held at the club house-dances off on to the golf course by herself and then trots around the corner to secretly suck on a lug rocket. so you know, we also got in a lesson about the deadliness of cancer sticks.
always valuable.
and us adults had a great evening entertainment with the fine selection of music being played by the dj. i guess there were some famous pro football players there.
we didn't get the kids to bed until 10:30 that night.
the next morning annie gave eric a special father's day treat by waking up at 5:30. fortunately she sandwiched her way in between us and managed to successfully hog the king sized bed for the next two hours.
sunday brought beautiful blue sky and some pool time. and all of us counting the days until we head back.