The new redo!

the furniture finally arrived (in several boxes) and my helpers set to work very quickly organzing screws and bolts to make their apartment complete! We still need to add some finishing touches, but at least the beds are off the floor and coloring can take place...nothing like cramming as much as possible into the very last week of summer!

furniture

If this is summer...

then why am I working so hard??? Too much to do for a Monday, but we managed to do ALL of the following:

1. Cream 60 ears of Silver Queen corn.

2. Put up (this is the southern term for preparing vegetables to spend the winter months in the freezer) one bushel of butter beans and one bushel of elite peas.

3. Wash and fold four loads of laundry.

4. Take a dip in the pool.

5. Finish Charlaine Harris's Dead over Heels (very light beach trash).

We are going to have corn-on-the-cob and fried okra for dinner and then I am going to hide in my bed. Surely Tuesday will not have so much fun to offer!

Farewell...

A fine farewell to our short-term friend...a "gift" from Vacation Bible School. Can you guess the theme this year? You got it - "Fishers of Men" and every child received their very own goldfish on the last day. One died during a sleep-over, so I disposed of the body without much fanfare. With the second death, we thought would should do something a bit more formal so we had a brief ceremony around the toilet bowl. Please take note of the flowers for the send-off!

A bookstore in my hand...

Welcome to the world of Kindle! Yes, I have gone to the dark side and I LOVE IT!!!! I never thought I would say that because I am one of those book snobs who has to break the spine of a book and breathe in the special scent of the printed page. Well, the Kindle has cured me of those desires because I have access to over 600,000 books! Truly a bookstore at my fingertips.

I must say that the device is catching, or I actually learned something from my Marketing degree, because I convinced an English teacher, a Math teacher (who should really be an English teacher but she didn't want to grade essays - who does???), and a Media Specialist (the new term for librarians) to purchase a Kindle. Yes, I managed to convince a keeper of books to purchase a Kindle.

It is beyond amazing...my personal Kindle will hold up to 1,500 books. When I am finished with those 1,500 books, I can tranfer them to my computer and start adding more to my Kindle. I am loving the promotional features where author's previous works are FREE or ONE DOLLAR to garner interest for their upcoming releases. I just finished Lisa Gardner's HIDE (never read any of her books) and completely enjoyed it! I am a sucker for a thriller with interesting characters.

I urge everyone to stop reading this post immediately and go to http://www.amazon.com/ and purchase a Kindle. Tell them Chanon sent you - I might get a free book!

Oh, and thanks to Marshall for my very early anniversary present - I love it!

Summer on the course...

You can probably guess where Camden has spent the first few weeks of summer...on the course. I have had a large time serving as Camden's gallery as he played his first few sectionals. I am a much better golf mother than baseball - driving a golf cart, chilled water in the cooler, peace and quiet on the course, and my Kindle for entertainment during the score tabulations - definitely an improvement over the dirt and grime at a ball field.

You can see that Camden has had some expert advice on the course from his caddy, Marshall. So far he has performed quite well and we hope to make it to the state tournament at the end of July. Stay tuned for more amazing pics!

Thanks for a blooming great year!

you know how I love a home-made gift...so I assume that everyone else with any sort of taste desires the same. The girls and I made these flower pots for their various teachers (Camden's teacher received one also, even though he wasn't in on the crafting activity). Hopefully the flowers will bloom through the summer and then the pot can be used to hold the plethora of objects a teacher seems to collect. Just a small token of our deep appreciation for the teachers who endure the act of teaching to inspire our children.

Happy Mother's Day!

yes, I realize that this is a bit late, but when I have I ever gotten a gift to someone in a timely fashion. I hope that the festiveness of the gift helped with its delayed arrival...I think my mom and Miss Lou enjoyed their gifts. I know the girls and I enjoyed making it.


This idea was stolen from Pendy. Her daughter-in-law Ashley gave her a name picture for Christmas. I thought it was adorable, so I did some research on the internet and discovered that these items are rather pricey. So, I loaded the girls in the golf cart, grabbed my marvelous camera, and we headed off in the neighborhood to see what we could find. I thought we did relatively well considering this was our first attempt. We only had to cheat on the "L." You would think that this would be an easy letter to find - not really. Caelan was overjoyed to find the "R" sticking up in Pendy's yard.


Miss Lou's was a bit easier to do (fewer letters), but I thought the flower was a nice touch. They might not be the most professional pictures, but we were certainly proud of our handy work.