Olive came home from Dave and Anna’s with a new look.
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Anna headbanging with Olive
Olive was being very bitey and Anna was trying to flick her in the nose while avoiding the teeth. I managed to snap this action photo! It looks like they’re jamming to music!
My first Father’s Day without my dad.
My first Father’s Day without my dad around is a little more emotional than I thought it would be. Lin sent me these pics this morning.
I still can’t believe he’s gone. I still feel guilty I wasn’t there at the end. I still can’t believe he’s not going to be there for grandparent camp. Or see his grandkids graduate high school or get married.
Hug your friends and family. You never know when might be the last time you see them.
A Bar Mitzvah!
Enjoying a PERFECT pool day!
Great weather (after the horrible heat and humidity wave we had), a nice breeze, SEATS IN THE SHADE, friends (Anna and Kelly!), good music, peanut M&Ms, a cold beverage, and a library book!
And makeup that would stay on if I dared to go swimming — I did go in up to my neck as a starter!
Old lady puzzle party!
All that’s missing are shawls and readers (they’ll come out soon). What you can’t see: margaritas.
Olive is helping:
Kelly’s here! Kelly’s here!
We haven’t seen each other in person in about eight years, so when she was going to be in Chicago for a work convention, she just added on a few extra days to come stay here!
Unfortunately our planning failed a bit and she couldn’t get an Uber out of the city so at 4:30 we had to drive and pick her up in downtown Chicago!
We drove straight back to our favorite restaurant, Primo, for dinner with Anna and David. We had a great time…and we introduced Kelly to the deer.
Then it was back to our house for drinks and conversation! And a new friendship was forged tonight—now we just need to get Kelly to move here.
P.S. I think we look pretty good — it was a hot and crappy day and our makeup still looks spot on!
WTHS Postcard party!
Candy, Anna, and I were working on some Vote YesWTHS reminder postcards today and we even roped the kids into helping (and they have better handwriting than we do)!
It was very weird having the kids sign theirs “class of 2027” and “class of 2030”!!!!
Honey & Olive
Olive just loves Honey SOOOO much. She gets the butt wiggles every time.
She paws at her face.
And then she’s tuckered out.
We were finally in our egg chairs at the same time!
When one of us is in our egg chair, we call the other to see if we happen to be in our chairs at the same time. We rarely are. Tonight we were.!
Last minute mom brunch!
It had been waaay too long since we’d all been together so we went out for brunch!
Olive bellies up to the bar!
She was on Anna’s lap, but still…
Ash has no sense of personal space.
I was taking care of Anna’s animals for a day and their newest cat, Ash, gave me lots of loving. Kai also got his face in there, too.
Gabby is now an Eagle!
We all traveled to Normal for our neice Gabby’s Eagle Scout promotion! But first, dropping Olive at the sitter’s!
And then lunch, because we were at a Mexican restaurant!
She wanted blue hair so she got blue hair!
We finally did Katie’s Christmas gift! And my friend Amy helped because I’d never done anything exactly like that before! (I could totally do it now, though, after watching!)
And after the shower… plus look how long her hair finally is!!
Unexpectedly delicious.
Top Gun: Maverick
There was no way in hell I was missing this on the big screen…
My thoughts?
- Holy crap was that good! I wasn’t sure they could pull it off but they did.
- It was more emotional than I anticipated for sure.
- Tom Cruise still has it.
- I got goosebumps more than once.
- I teared up more than once.
- The actor that plays Goose’s son is damn near perfect casting.
- I’m so glad my mom didn’t see it first and tell me I didn’t need to see it because it was “just a bunch of planes flying around.”
- I definitely want to see it again.
Baseball coaches BBQ
Our welcoming committee (Katie) was dressed and out waiting a good 15 minutes before guests were supposed to arrive!
I apparently don’t know how to make food for less than 30 people.
It was a BBQ so Tom did pulled pork (which requires cole slaw since we lived in North Carolina for eight years), baked beans, and cornbread. Then we added three flavors of smoked cream cheese with three types of crackers, pea and peanut salad, peanuts, cashews, fresh fruit and chips for the kiddos, and someone brought the veggie tray (and desserts which aren’t in the photo).
The evolution of Living Lippy!
Y’all have seen my avatar by now, I assume, since she’s been around since 2018.
Well, I figured four years was long enough to use the el cheapo Fiverr look (which I did love)…so when my friend Joyanne offered to design something new for me as practice for her new business, I jumped at the chance!
And I’m in love! I mean, who doesn’t want to look like a Disney princess?! And of course I still have my trademark margarita…but my hair is shorter and I’ve got a cardigan now (and I’m not quite as slim as I was back then). And yes, the margarita is a more realistic appropriate size!
That said, part of me is sad to give up the old me because it has memories…but we all need to grow and evolve…so in with the new!
The boys’ 8th grade graduation!
Owen and Evan had a game afterward and Tom and Owen had to leave right from graduation.
As a school board member, Anna was able to hand her kids their diplomas.
WTHS Referendum Post card party
Today I got together with some new friends for a few hours to write reminder to vote yes postcards for the upcoming Referendum. It’s critical that this passes so the high school gets enough money for a full day of classes as well as extracurricular activities and sports.
Sleepy puppy, big snacks & play date
I might not have looked at how big the bully sticks were on Amazon.
Visiting with Honey again. Olive LOVES her.
Gymnastics is paying off!
Olive, Day 21
She’s so regal-looking here.
She found that napkin on the deck and proudly carried it under the chair and sat on it. I went to take her picture and caught her right as she started to bark at me.
She met Anna’s mom!
And Honey!
My first lilacs of the season!
OMGGGGGGG!!! I casually mentioned to a client that anytime she wanted to bring me a bouquet of lilacs…
And look what appeared on my porch today?!
My kitchen smells sooooo good!
Olive, Day 8
Yes these will eventually taper off but right now she is just so damn cute.
Her first trip to the park! She needs to start getting used to her harness and a leash!
Anna let us borrow her cat sweatshirt.
Cinco de Drinko
Introducing…Olive!
I loved Maggie fiercely and was devastated when we had to put her to sleep earlier this year. I knew we’d get another Boston Terrier eventually, but I wasn’t ready quite so soon (just over two months).
Emotionally I was okay but I was really enjoying having NOTHING to take care of (kids don’t really count as they mostly take care of themselves). Tom wasn’t thinking about that—he just wanted a puppy. But guess who’s going to be home with her ALL DAY EVERY DAY?! (You know if I would have told Tom I was getting him a new daily job he would have said oh hell no, right?!)
That said, I did kind of miss having SOMETHING around the house. And she IS super cute…I’ll give her that. This is the first photo we got of her:
We stopped in Normal on the way back and had dinner with Marie and Gabi!
Meeting Anna.
Michigan Egg Hunt
Katie was ready at 5am—she’s ALL about the egg hunt. And I think Owen is about over it.
And then the ever important opening and sorting process.
Picking Pysanky “rejects”
Going through the pysanky my mom calls the “rejects” and picking some heirlooms. They are gorgeous. Next visit will be the “good” eggs.
These were some of the “better” ones:
