My mom is here visiting…so that means it’s time to do Pysanky! I haven’t done it much since we went to the workshop last October. Because it’s so time intensive, it’s eggs or reading. And y’all know what I’ve been choosing! But I’m taking advantage of her vast experience and making memories…
Owen volunteered to play in the jazz band before his promotion ceremony!
I love that he was able to walk with his good friend Lucas…
And Anna (as school board president) was able to give him his diploma!
And then it was off to our celebratory dinner at The Chocolate Sanctuary because it’s closing soon! Of course I forgot to get a photo of our whole group but I did get a picture of my chocolate strawberry martini!
First and last day photo!
I went to a new place because neither guy I like at my usual salon was available… The guy did a pretty good job except he was clueless. I’m blaming the language barrier a little. I told him I wanted a rainbow—and I showed him a picture—and so I started to point to colors on the color ring and he took them away after I picked the first color. Ooooookay. So I thought Let’s just see what happens. And then after he did all the nail prep and he started to paint, I had to stop him and say I needed to pick some more colors. He looked at me in total confusion. So the receptionist overheard and came over and helped figure that out. And then at the end, I decided that I wanted to add the heart to the yellow nail—I’m super anal and was having anxiety over not easily being able to use all 6 colors, so when my brain hit on the red heart, I was thrilled!—and he looked at me funny and he pulled out the yellow again and I was like No, I want you to draw a heart on it. Can you do that? and he wasn’t getting it. So then the receptionist ran over again and said Design—she wants a design and then just did the heart quick himself.
It wasn’t too busy thankfully. It did get a little busier but nowhere near as bad as I thought it would be for a really nice holiday weekend.
I’m not the only one who likes the egg chair!
Anna and I painted our pets (puppy Olive and Honey) at a local art studio! (Tom and I did birch trees here before!) With the pets, they start you with a pencil drawing from a photo you send— which made it a ton easier!
It was really fun, though I enjoyed it more than Anna did!
Soooo this is happening today. Perfect timing weather-wise as it might be open longer than we thought did to unforseen wood rot issues.
It’s in but I didn’t take a final photo yet because the molding and such isn’t complete!
After he picked out books, he wanted to play. I haven’t played in 30 years. I lost in under a minute.
They are always super excited to pick out the books, then they sit in a pile until it’s time to return them. This summer phone use will be tied to reading…
—without saying they’re lazy. (This is clean and was sent up with a child for their bathroom.)
Owen’s 8th grade graduation boat trip at Navy Pier is today. His entire outfit is courtesy of Tom – since Owen couldn’t wear jeans and didn’t realize until last night that he didn’t have khakis (even though I asked him a week ago) and then also realized he didn’t have any clean shirts or matching shoes. Because kids.
Just because my hard is different from your hard, doesn’t mean it’s any less important.
Could they BE any cuter?
I legit just asked Tom if he could see my glasses anywhere.
And then later after she woke up.
We can’t afford to redo the entire deck at once so it’s baby projects for now… and today Tom only had time for one side.
Half in the shade, half in the sun, in a comfy bed, with a nice breeze blowing…
She’s not even on pain meds any more!
I told the kids that if I ever got a decent deal I’d take them. So… Friday was the day. And they each got to invite a friend. Tom stayed home with the dogs and Anna came with me!
Aaand totally unlike me, I didn’t take a single photo the entire day/night… except one of Anna asleep at 8:03!
But the next morning after Owen left for his baseball game, the remaining three did the ropes course!
Getting higher!
And a different two.
If y’all know anything about me, you know I love Costco and Sam’s Club. I have so many favorites at each place it would be hard to narrow it down to just a few things.
But today, I’m going to tell you about my new favorite thing from Sam’s Club—🦐 Shrimp ceviche! You may scoff at getting something like this from a warehouse club, but it was really good! Plentiful shrimp, fresh veggies, decent cost—I will admit that it needed salt, and then I ended up putting a little too much in … but I still had to stop myself from eating the whole thing in one sitting. 🤤
Being introduced to Olive again.
It didn’t take long for this to happen.
Can you even see it?
