Phew! We've been busy the past couple of weeks! But it's been the good kind of busy. So, I am going to try to catch up.... (Warning! Long, random, and rambling post ahead...)
Last Monday was my birthday...I'm 28! Twenty-eight, y'all!! It's so funny how I still feel like I am college-age. (Sigh...) Do you want to see what I got?
A clothesline!! YEA! I have had this on my wish-list for about three years. I love it! There is nothing like line-dried sheets. I have been using indoor drying racks to hang-dry a lot of our clothes and everything of Amelia's. I am so excited about my new outdoor line. Mike had to dig through the rock-hard Georgia red clay for the posts. I refrained from re-enacting a scene from my favorite movie (Gone With the Wind) with this handful of Georgia clay...."That's all of Tara you'll ever get!"
Amelia was daddy's little helper...
Thank you, Mike and Amelia, for my birthday present!
I hung some of my brown transferware dishes in the dining room...(The top dish was a gift from Momma for my birthday.)
I've been scrubbin' in the house. Can you see the difference in my windows? I know...not the most exciting of news, but I love having sparkly clean windows! So I have to show them off. "...I can see clearly now..."
Ta-Da! I don't keep the screens in my windows because I certainly am not opening them...not in this 90-plus heat! Even though, I do love to sleep with the windows open...
Just for fun...a silly sleeping picture of Amelia...hehe!...
Now, for the best part... We got to go to church this past Sunday.
Let me give a little background, so that you'll know how truly exciting this is for us. Several years ago, I had signed a contract to work every weekend, save four a year...night shift, that is, from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. At first, I thought I would be able to stay awake in order to go to church on Sunday. Then, we moved even further away from our church, making our drive an hour each way. I just couldn't stay awake. When I was pregnant with Amelia, I would get migrains if I tried. And after having her, phewwww, I was too tired to even think about it. We knew we wanted to go back, we just didn't know how we could at that time. We tried churches that were closer, but there was just something missing. And without family close by, I needed to be home during the week to take care of Amelia, and Mike could watch her on the weekends while I was at the hospital working. After a lot of thinking and praying (and financial figuring), we decided that I would come home, and just work a couple nights a month. This past week was the first weekend I didn't have to work. We spent all day Saturday together as a family, instead of me having to sleep to go back into work that night (we felt so normal!!!), and we got to go to church on Sunday morning. I am beyond thankful for this, more than I can say.
We ate lunch on Saturday at Bugaboo Creek. Have y'all ever been there? The animals talk. And there was a giant buffalo directly over our table. Amelia was completely enthrawled...
For the remainder of the meal, she kept an eye on him, waiting for him to come back to life and ask for a cookie...
After lunch, we went to the fabric store where Amelia made the rounds, with Daddy trailing closely behind... (I might add, these ladies are strangers to Amelia, but ladies at the fabric store are always the good kind of strangers, right?)
Note to self: Now that Amelia is walking, shoes are a must!
But, c'mon, it's summer! And grungy toes aren't nearly as cute when your older.
Then, it was church on Sunday morning! :o)
This little sailor dress was mine as a baby. I know I've said it before, but I am so happy Momma saved so many of my baby clothes and dresses. Isn't it sweet?
Oh, mercy!
Such a big, big day for a tiny girl...
Oh...and this is a lizard that was on our front porch the other day. I asked Mike why he was taking a picture of it, and he said he figured I'd want to put it on my blog. Sooo, here he is. At any given moment, I can go outside and find no less than ten of these little guys.
Y'all have a great week!
