Sweet Caroline

To my babies: (and I'm only a month and a half late with this post)   I’m not sure how we got here SO dang fast, but you’ll learn one day that you can’t fence time, so here we are…. Fresh off celebrating our two THREE year olds.  You both are just so excited to be “free” and big boys…and I am too, I am SO excited because y’all are just so damn cute but I’m also SO sad, because with every day that passes I lose another piece of baby-ness…and that is HARD on your mama.     G~  oh my little G, your personality has taken OFF in the past 6 months or so.  We always used to say you were the shy one, but not anymore!  You are the first to get out on the dance floor these days and you LOVE to shake your booty.  Your laughter is certainly infectious and you are HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY most of the time.  It’s funny b/c I remember before you and T started preschool last year telling the teachers that you were the shy one etc. but you proved us wrong....

Another weekend of not doing much... well, that's kind of a lie because we were certainly busy, but I guess when I say "we didn't do much" I mean we didn't do anything socially;-) Mikey's grandfather passed away, so we went to a family lunch and visitation Saturday in NC. He was 95 and never lost his mind and lived at home until the last week, if I can choose a way to go... that's it. We actually headed up to charlotte Friday night and stayed with Mikey's sister so the kids could hang out and we wouldn't have to be in the car for 7 hours Saturday.  I was on a cleaning/organizing mission on Sunday! Feels good to be like that soemtimes!! I'm looking forward to getting back on the lake this weekend for some fun! Almost forgot... my Thursday night was amazing! My college bestie/roommate for three years came in town from ATL, which promoted two other college besties to come to town. We had a super fun night hanging out, catching up, laughing and dri...

We went to the beach via boat both Thursday and Friday of our vacay, and it was amazing. We ventured to Harbor Island each day and enjoyed hours of play time. The kids boogie boarded, built sand castles, walked for sea shells, jumped waves, played and laid on the tube, ate a million snacks, and watched the dolphins swim. Both of these days were pretty darn perfect- with end of the day boat naps happening too. 💚

I can barely keep my eyes open right now.  Yikes.  I used to have insomnia issues during college and law school but for the  most  part I don’t deal with it too much anymore.  Every once in a while it’ll take me a while to fall asleep…but then every few months I’ll have a night like I did last night….WIDE AWAKE  until 3 am .  Worst feeling ever.  All I wanted to do was SLEEP.  I am SO tired right now, maybe I can snooze in my car during lunch?? ;-)  Anyways, I’m still fighting some type of cold/respiratory infection so I wasn’t feeling all that great this weekend.  I’ve been feeling icky since last Wednesday, ready for this stuff to GO.  We took it easy this weekend and it was MUCH needed.  We did nothing  Friday night  and I was SUPER lazy/rested/slept when the kids napped Saturday for most of the day.  Well, slept in between coughing.  I finally felt a little better in the afternoon so we went out on ...

It rained most of the day Wednesday... so we shopped a bit, had a fashion show and long naps.  It cleared off around 3 ish and was supposed to be a gorgeous evening. So we decided to use this day to head to Harbor Town in Hinton head. It's a little over an hour drive from our house, but we don't mind. We love walking around exploring, climbing up the lighthouse, playing on the playground and listening to everyone's favorite child entertainer, Greg Russel! It was a fun, fun evening!                  

A week on vacation, there’s not much better. Am I right?  But, let me back up and document our weekend BEFORE we left for vacation.    As much as I LOVE to go, go, go I also like to have weekends at “home” …doing fun stuff.  Especially now that we live on the lake, I don’t want to be out of town all the time.  So, because I had been out of town the first two weekends, I wanted to be HOME the next two.  On Friday July 21 we didn’t do anything….  But get ready for vacation.  It takes a lot of work!  It was also nice downtime with the kids.  We spent that  Saturday morning  busting our butts around the house/yard tidying up for being gone a week.  And then the rest of the day was spent hanging out on the water with friends. We had the best time watching the kids play and catching up with some of our besties who we don’t see very much.   But, by  7:30 am Sunday morning , we were up and at ‘em ready to get to BEAUFORT...