What R U up 2?

I'm practicing my text messaging...cause I want one of these...
for business purposes, of course. :)

Latest reading material...In Her Shoes....pretty good actually though not my usual style.

Checking this out...the original is right in my neighborhood...

Planting a few of these.....I luv, luv these longer days!

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Update...I was just informed that I am getting my toes done tonight...courtesy of my loving daughter...I adore pedicures!

Falling down all over

Its springtime, finally...after all the horrible weather many of us have experienced over the last couple of weeks...so how do I know, you ask?...since as of Sunday we still needed the fireplace burning?

New spring/summer clothes are pouring in at Chicos...
I finished our taxes...hallelujah!
I'm working on vacation plans for the year...
My daughter and Navy SIL have received their spring time orders...its off to San Antonio for them...
My son is off on yet another US spring tour with the band... he flies out today...
My youngest daughter has started school for the first time in 4 yrs..she's a little rusty, but getting in the swing...
I'm cleaning and cleaning out like crazy...its weird how the urge strikes in the spring...i think the early Daylight Savings Time has messed with my brain....

Yesterday we(Jada and I) planted some flower pots and a perennial or two...
She had a blast digging in the dirt, playing with earthworms,(yuck!) and pulling her pint sized lawn chair out to the driveway along side mine to sit in the sun with a nice cool drink (apple juice for her, iced tea for me of course)....
She went running at one point and fell flat on the sidewalk...slightly skinning everything except her chin...both hands, both knees, and her tummy...poor baby...
tears streaming she clung to me as I checked her over for damages...

"I fell down all over" she cried...I tried valiantly not to laugh... :)
(wouldn't that make a good sermon title??) :)

Yep, its springtime..its outside time...its movin' and shakin' time...so get up people and move it! what's the worst that can happen?? You too could "fall down all over"...smile

The Singing Hopscotch

Saturday was an awesome day.....

We bought chalk









We drew and drew.....















Then...we hopscotched...




When I asked Jada what kind of hopscotch she made...
She said...."its a singing Hopscotch".....


I can live with that.....:)

The attack of the killer pollen

Spring Traditions

This weekend I partook in the time honored tradition of clothes swapping....
Maybe its a southern thing...I'm not really sure...but every spring and every fall...for as long as I can remember...my family has devoted some time to getting all our spring and summer clothes and shoes out of storage, and putting all our fall and winter things away for the season. Its really kind of fun...you find lots of goodies you had forgotten you owned....throw out things you never wore over the winter...and feel almost as if you have been shopping, after all you now have a whole new wardrobe! I used to do this for all my kids every year, weeding through the things they had outgrown or the things that were just too awful to keep another day .... Now my closet is full of lovely bright crisp spring and summer things and my sandals are all prominently displayed in the closet floor and I have a large bag of goodies for Goodwill...I even went through my jewelry!
Now the house and yard are calling...begging to be dusted and scrubbed and mowed and trimmed...and the car...boy does it need washing, as it is coated with a thick layer of pollen....still more spring traditions that I am trying to get to....these things and March madness too?...surely it really is Spring!...Oh yeah, now to get those annuals planted....
What things do you do around your house to mark the arrival of spring?

Fun things...

Signs of Spring...in our very own yard!!





A shopping trip to Chicos....

Just love that song I Will Lift my Eyes so I had to pick up this

And for icing on the cake...we had a sleepover!!! yep that's pancakes...and my giant glass of sweet tea ... :)

Hope your weekend was (as Jada would say)...."a blast"!

Oh My Word!!!

The sun is shining, the sky is blue....the daffodils are blooming....its 55 degrees at 8:30am...going up to 70 for sure today! Could this be spring?!?! I surely hope so! Where else would you have a wind chill of 12 on Sunday and 70s later that same week...ahhh I do love living down south....:)

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

Henry Van Dyke (1852–1933)
Fisherman's Luck (1899)