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| The Big Guy & Mini-him |
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| My dad and Mini-him |
moving! Since then he has kept us on our toes but always with his great smile. We are so proud of the man he's become!
He's out of town today so we'll celebrate with dinner tomorrow.
It's been a very laid back week here, although we've had lots of times with our bookend kids around. Y'all know how much I love that!
This Week I'm:
Listening To: Tomorrow I'll start Sarah Vowell's Unfamiliar Fishes after spending most of last week listening to podcasts including Futility Closet (I love their lateral thinking puzzles), This American Life and Happier (more on one of those episodes that later this week).
Watching: More Orange Is The New Black with Miss H, probably too many episodes of Real Housewives (Orange County and New York), and a few old movies. Trying to avoid all of the summer reality shows but BG does love them.
Making: Risotto, cast iron skillet oven s'mores, bar-b-que chicken, sloppy joes, and BBT's (bacon, basil and tomato - we were out of lettuce but what a happy discovery!).
Planning: A move for Mini-him. The owner of the house he's been renting is selling it out from under Mini-him and his roommate after just a few months. Yippee.
Grateful for: Air conditioning. The thermometer in my car registered 105 degrees on Friday. I am not amused.
Enjoying: Meeting with my book club the other night. We had a good discussion about the book which lead to a good discussion about how we saw ourselves reflected in the book which lead to a whole lot of fun and laughs. As usual. Love these ladies!Feeling: Excited for Mini-me who is off in Chicago this weekend with his girlfriend. She spent a couple of years working there are has thoroughly enjoyed showing him the sights. He sent me this pic late last night from the 96th floor of the John Hancock building.
Looking forward to: Celebrating Mini-him's birthday, lots of reading (cuz so many new books in the house!), and some furniture painting.
A very happy birthday to your son! Kids do have a way of growing up don't they? I feel your pain with the heat. We're definitely in the summertime here in Central Texas. The rainy days we had in May and June are a mere memory. But, heat is usual here for summer and I'm grateful for a/c as well. Can't imagine how I'd fare without it. Not well. Have a good week!
ReplyDeleteI'm terrible without a/c any more! But it beats the hell out of winter and snow and ice!
DeleteHappy birthday to Mini-him! Looks like some great summer reading and doing!
ReplyDeleteI have had some great reading this summer!
DeleteHappy birthday to Mini-Him! It sounds like you've had a nice week. My daughter and I watch The Bachelorette together and even though it's total trash we have such a good time watching them together. I will be sad when she moves away to college next month. Have a great week!
ReplyDeleteHopefully your daughter will come home for some mom and daughter nights!
DeleteCongrats to "mini-him". Those years go fast for sure. We are in store for a hot hot week here too.
ReplyDeleteI sometimes still can't believe I could have children at all, let alone grown adults!
DeleteI also watch a little too much Real Housewives - a guilty pleasure! Was thrilled to see I do have a Bravo limit - I found it when I watched the first episode of Secrets and Wives and had to turn it off! Looking forward to your thoughts on Sarah Vowell - I love comedy on audio and she is on my wishlist.
ReplyDeleteYep, I watched about a half hour of Secrets and Wives and shut it off, although I'm hard pressed to say what was really that much different about it than the Real Housewives. Vowell is great - massive amounts of information with a sharp wit.
DeleteMy son turns 26 in a month. How does this happen? :) Interested to see how you feel about Go Set a Watchman. I haven't picked it up yet, but hopefully soon.
ReplyDeleteIt is kind of great to have adult children, isn't it? You really can, finally, be friends with them.
DeleteHappy birthday to your son! Twenty-seven years! He's almost as old as I am. Okay, so maybe I'm still much much older, but in my heart I'm still young. :-)
ReplyDeleteI finished watching the third season of Orange is the New Black and really liked it. Especially that last episode. I see what everyone was saying about Piper after having watched the season (and this isn't a spoiler--I've felt this way for awhile now). She's definitely not among my favorite characters.
Your book club sounds like a lot of fun, Lisa.
I hope you have a great week!
I'm still young in my heart, too! If it weren't for mirrors (and the damn sun spots on my arms and hands!), I could sometimes pretend I'm still my son's age!
DeleteHappy birthday to Mini-him! I hope you have a wonderful time celebrating.
ReplyDeleteSummer certainly decided to make its appearance with a vengeance, didn't it? We haven't broken triple digits yesterday, but we have reached our highest temperatures this year with horrible humidity as well. It makes just going outside a chore. However, I know this will end all too soon, and we have been lucky this year so far. I'll take a few days of miserable weather in favor of the much more comfortable temperatures we have had this summer.
Enjoy your reading! Have a great week!
We had a lovely week back down in the 80's and now it's hot again. But I'd still rather hide away from the heat than from the cold and snow!
DeleteHappy Birthday to your son!! We had a birthday too!
ReplyDeleteMy Macbook would not boot this weekend so I could not post a Sunday post. It seems to be working now. I have no idea what happened but I feel out of the loop.
I think I might be able to do without the t.v. for a few days and not feel like I was missing out on much but if I couldn't get my computer to work, I'd get twitchy!
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