Picnic...

I am craving a little picnic in my backyard this weekend with my luvs...

I think we will throw down a giant blanket...

bring out our pretty plates and napkins...

{...I have an obsession with pretty napkins...}

sit down and munch on some great food...

{thinking grilled bread...fresh cheese...thinly sliced apple...little piles of spicy sopressata...fresh Summer tomatoes with a drizzle of balsamic...a little olive oil...

and a good bottle of wine...yummm}

enjoy the sounds of Summer...

and

being together...

Happy Friday everyone...



Super Safe...

I was driving the other day and hear E playing with seatbelts in the back...

so I turn around and see him with all 3 seatbelts wrapped around him!

I started laughing

and he says "Now, I am SUPER safe"!

hahahahaha!

kids!

For ladies only...(just a warning!)

What is it about your *ahem*...excuse me...period!

that can make you sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo CRAZY???

Seriously...

I used to be so proud of the fact that my personality never changed month to month!

{at least I thought so...}...

but in the last year, I am a FREAK the day or two before!

I literally cried listening to the Bare Naked Ladies song "If I had a Million Dollars" this morning..

WHO.DOES.THAT.?

No, really...

WHO.DOES.THAT?

Yesterday, it all began when I had to explain myself to the 1-800-Hansons man at the fair WHY I didn't want him to come to my house and give me an estimate on NEW SIDING!
Craig said..."you don't have to explain yourself...just say Not Interested"...
WHAT?  You don't understand anything.
I can't say that.
He doesn't get me...

Then...I was so mad {and sad} that the dogs ate Ethan's ball and I had to pick up a zillion

pieces out of the grass...{cause that makes total sense to be sad about this, right?...RIGHT?}

and

about lost it when I noticed how many weeds were growing through our deck...

WHY WOULD THEY DO THIS TO ME???

and how the lawn really needed to be mowed!

WHY ISN'T THE LAWN MOWED????

WHY are my baseboards so dirty???????????????

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!

My house is a pig sty!!!!!

How come we have SOOOO many bills????

I literally had to go into my bedroom and read a book just to remove myself from any additional situation setting me off!

Which led to sitting on the floor trying to find inner peace...

but, all I heard was my husband and son cheering on the Tigers...

and Ethan randomly calling out "MOM" just to make sure I was still there!

Just to let you know...

no.inner.peace.was found last night.

Today I seem to be fine.

No really I am...

so far.

Just Browsing...

So...

we cut up our credit cards a while back so we could get a movin and pay those

suckers off!...

which is great.

but.

I CAN'T BUY ANYTHING!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...

I am desperate to pretty up my home!

So...

in the meantime...

I will just look at beautiful pictures of spaces I love!

hahaha!

images via: www.pinterest.com

Food Truck Fun...

Last weekend my hubby and I took E and his cousins to Fabulous Ferndale to visit the

Food Truck street fair!

If you know me, I have Food Network on CONSTANTLY...

it's actually pretty ridiculous.

Anyhoo...

Craig noticed that some food trucks were coming into town so naturally we jumped on the chance to try the food out!

So, we piled everyone in the car and headed out for some Saturday fun!

They had a little craft table for the kids where they made magic wands...ate ice cream...sampled some kiddo tacos...and Fin got his arm painted!

The Detroit Derby Girls were there working the Beer station and of course we had to support them!...

so we got a couple local beers while the kiddos ate ice cream!

Craig and I sampled a couple trucks out...Perogies (delish!)...and a couple mexican food trucks called El Guapo and Taco Mama Detroit where we shared a korean beef taco with spicy sweet slaw...and a shrimp enchiladia.

It was a wonderful way to try some new foods...and have the kids experience a local food festival!

There were an awful lot of cops for this really laid back event! 

Just Wait...

Desperately, helplessly, longingly, I cried; quietly patiently, lovingly God replied. I pled and I wept for a clue to my fate, and the Master so gently said, "Child you must wait."

"Wait? you say 'wait'," my indignant reply, "Lord, I need answers. I need to know why! Is your hand shortened? Or have you not heard? By faith I have asked and am claiming your Word. My future and all to which I can relate hangs in the balance, and YOU tell me Wait?"

"I'm needing a 'yes,' a go-ahead sign, or even a 'no' to which I can resign. And, Lord, You promised that if we believe we need but to ask and we shall receive. And, Lord, I've been asking! I need a reply!"

Then quietly, softly, I learned of my fate. As my Master replied once again, "You must wait." So I slumped in my chair, defeated and taut. And grumbled to God, "So I'm waiting...for what?"

He seemed, then to kneel, and His eyes wept with mind, and He tenderly said, "I could give you a sign. I could shake the heavens and darken the sun. I could raise the dead, cause the mountains to run."

"All you seek, I could give, and pleased you would be. You would have what you want, but you wouldn't know ME. You'd not know the depth of my love for each saint; you'd not know the power that I give to the faint. You'd not learn to see through clouds of despair; you'd not learn to trust just by knowing I'm there; you'd not know the joy of resting in ME, when darkness and silence were all you could see.

You'd never experience the fullness of love as the peace of my spirit descends like a dove; you'd know that I give and I save (for a start), but you'd not know the depth of the beat of my heart, the glow of my comfort late in the night, the faith that I give when you walk without sight, the depth that's beyond getting just what you asked, of an infinite God, who makes what you have LAST.

You'd never know, should your pain quickly flee, what it means that "My grace is sufficient for thee." Yes, your dreams for that loved one overnight would come true, but, oh, the loss...if I lost what I'm doing in you!

"So, be silent, my child, and in time you will see that the greatest of gifts is to get to know ME. And though my answers seem terribly late, my most precious answer of all is still "WAIT."
From: http://mareandreid.blogspot.com

First Day of Summer...

Did you take advantage of the first day of Summer...?

The longest day of the year...?

My son is going to Vacation Bible School all week with 2 of my besties kids in the morning and then my wonderful friend Christa...who has 3 of her own...is taking Ethan home with her to swim in the pool and play all day while I have to work...{Thanks girl...you ROCK}

When I got home...we drove over to watch my husband's evening softball game with some of my girlfriends and their kiddos!...

It was so fun...and HOT!...the kids ran around and played tag...and somehow managed to

entertain themselves with a drinking fountain for an hour! 

{how do they manage to do that!!!?}

I got to chat a bit and watch most of the game...

{don't ask the final score...it was not pretty...}

Came home and just enjoyed the rest of the evening with my E...

It was a lovely first day of Summer...

What did you do...?