Week Two

     It was a pretty ordinary week here- Marcus is still plugging away at the EMT-Enhanced course & I’m still hanging out with Cecilia & Thomas.  Not wanting to go back to real work! My camera was lugged with me everyday, to the library, city park, my parent’s house..etc. Without further ado-

Monday-Cecilia & Thomas spend their morning in the PJ’s doing puzzles. Upon finishing they demand that the puzzles have their pictures taken. I obliged :)

Tuesday- Marcus’ favorite Ritz-cracker-cheddar cheese encrusted chicken dinner

Wednesday-all this rain=frizzy curls {wait, isn’t that a bit redundant?!}

Thursday- Cecilia & Thomas learn the importance of leaving love notes. And drawing hearts. Cecilia did all the writing except ‘uncle Marcus’ and Thomas’ name. Pretty good!

 

Friday-pizza night

Saturday morning- chocolate chip waffles…..

Sunday- meet Howard. He lives at my parent’s house & is tended to by Patrick. If you are looking for the perfect gift for a 14 year old boy {or the whole family} Check out air swimmers !

      

Hope I can keep up the documentation next week!

Nanny’s Dresses

     {Please, please, please excuse this mess of a blog. I was trying to simplify the design..ironically enough things have to get a lot more complicated in HTML world just to simplify. As I mentioned, I was over the dark colors & really over that flash header. It made me dizzy, friends. Clearly, I am not done-the header I made is probably temporary as I cannot decide what text/title/pictures/colors/etc I want. Is it ridiculous you don’t know what to call your own blog?!  And there are some major alignment issues that I don’t know how to fix. If you do, shoot me a line!}

     During my annual summer Ohio trip in 2010, Nanny decided to pull out a couple of her old dresses for me to try on. Nanny had some serious style, not to mention much slimmer hips than I do-the dresses fit perfect in the shoulders, chest & waist but my protruding hip bones nearly ripped the dresses. I managed to slip them on after doing that strange shimmying-wiggling-shaking pull that I know all you girls know what I am talking about. The little dance maneuver we do to fit into something a little too small. But, victory was mine because I got the dresses on-never mind if they bulged out a little funny in the hip region. See below for the bulging…poor stretched dress.

All bulging dresses aside, how gorgeous is that scarf?! Nanny wore this dress as she left her wedding reception when she was 24. These pictures were taken about two months after my 24th birthday :)

 

She wore this fun dress on her honeymoon. Somebody needs to bring back 1950’s fashion. So classy!                 

Hope my Nanny’s great taste in fashion was enough to distract you from a blog-in-progress! I’ll be back tomorrow to share this weeks photo-a-day project. Happy Saturday!!!

High School

     I realize it has not been terribly long since I graduated high school. I haven’t happened upon my ten year reunion quite yet, I still have my yearbooks & High School T-Shirts & still wear some of my clothes from high school. Emphasis on the some. I’ll explain more on that later.

    It does, however, FEEL like it has been a terribly long time since high school. I graduated in 2004 with a great gang of friends.  And like most friends from high school, life tried to drift us apart..and probably succeeded in some ways. We went on to do cool things. Okay, THEY went on do cool things. Cool things like archeological digs, acting in the next Twilight movie, teaching self defense, getting masters in public health, making amazing music with a band, getting married, moving across the country to Arizona, etc. Needless to say, these cool things have left us all busy.  None of us would probably talk at all if it wasn’t for Sam. Sam wasn’t having any of this drifting apart nonsense. She is constantly calling, texting, facebooking {yes that is a verb}, insisting on getting together. My girls lunch date this past Saturday? All Sam. Every friend group should have a Sam- the friend that holds everybody together, who prioritizes people over busy & hectic schedules and just takes time to be a good friend. I could go on & on about her, but then that would embarrass her & this would turn into a big fat mushy post. I try to avoid big fat mushy posts.

   Instead of writing a mushy, nostalgic post, I scanned some old photo’s & made a list.

Things I did in High School

1. Took up any dare…..but only the appropriate, moral, clean, safe ones {duh, mom!} I think, anyways.

 

2. Spent April Fools Eve making brownies with chili powder & cayenne pepper for our guy friends. It was a little bit mean, but a whole lot awesome. Dubbed ourselves the brownie warriors

3. Wore less clothes. It was as if there was a rule forbidding your shirt & your pants to touch. Exhibit A-

 4. Took pictures with Norfolk’s finest at my high school graduation. Don’t worry-this was my aunt’s idea & she flagged the poor-i-can’t-believe-I-have-to-work-a-high-school-graduation cop down BUT I happily obliged. I also pretty much always straightened my hair & parted in right down the middle in high school. I was so cool.

 5. Thought Sam & I were HILARIOUS for switching bikini tops in the Atlantic Ocean.

 

6. Sneak in the Hague Towers at midnight & go swimming….borrowing suits {or shorts} from whoever’s house was closest {ahem..Christina}. Then we looked out the window & thought deep thoughts & said deep things. Oh wait, maybe we were just posing for a picture we thought would be so adorable.

7. Okay, this picture is not from high school. I can tell because we are wearing more clothes. It is from right after high school though. This picture is an Ode to Sam & Christina, to good friends from high school, to keeping in touch, to dinners & lunches out, to memories had and more to be made. Love y’all!