Tuesday Things.
1. Does anyone else find themselves mesmerized by weird food video hacks on facebook? Even if it’s something weird or gross, I often can’t turn away.
2. White chocolate birthday cookies. Yes please.
3. Broke down and bought a bouncy house slide/swimming pool combo. Feels like backyard yacht club but it’s also 100% worth it.
4. TV things!! I watched Sweet Magnolias on Netflix and it was super cute – sort of like a Hallmark-y Gilmore Girls vibe! Did anyone else finish Run on HBO? And Billions better pick up on some Wendy Axe chemistry for me!
5. You GUYS… my dishwasher broke while fully loaded AND while I had what would be nearly two additional dishwasher loads to run after cooking a ton of food for our family. I don’t even want to tell you how long it took Eddie and I to tag team the dishes.
6. If you had a vacation planned this summer, is it to a place you’re still able to go? Really hoping we can still go on ours planned for august since it’s pretty private. We’re playing it by ear right now.
7. How to practice gratitude during difficult times.
8. Pretty sure Eddie’s favorite toy is the power washer. He will spend HOURS power washing basically everything.
9. Meanwhile, I need a laundry room designed like this.
10. I think I’ve bribed my kids too much during quarantine. The other night Max told me (at 8pm) “mama if you just let me go outside on the swingset now I won’t play the iPad for a week!” Ummmm where did he learn this…
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We were supposed to fly to Boston from the Midwest in August, spend a few days there, then take a few days to wind our way up through Maine, eventually stopping at Acadia for a few days. But…we cancelled. Just too far, too crowded, and flying is not something we feel comfortable doing currently. Instead, we put that money towards a total redo of my soon to be 11 year old’s bedroom and revamped our playroom into a ‘tween hang out space and craft/ wrapping/ game room. Honestly, she’s more excited about that than the vacation, but I’m still bummed. I looked into driving up to Wisconsin or Michigan instead, but it just seems like at the little touristy things that make those kinds of vacation fun to me are closed, or so different as to just tarnish them. Instead, we’ll just be super thankful we decided to put in a lovely pool two summers ago, and vacation there all summer!
We were going to Chicago in late July for baseball and sight seeing – but we cancelled. Cook county has way too many cases and aren’t even close to re opening
So now we made a back up plan here in the PNW that is driving and mostly outdoors and we will see if those options are viable when we get closer. So bummed about Chicago as it was vacation but also to mark off some bucket list items for Dan’ s milestone birthday year – wah wah.
As for Billions – AGREE!!
So sorry about dishwasher! Yikes. I feel like ours has been doing OT with all the full time cooking – hope you get a replacement soon
my brother has relocated to paris for 2 years for work so we were going to go there in sept/oct but thats a no go now. we talked about maybe driving to the beach somewhere and renting a house but its just 2 of us and a lot of rentals are HUGE or are condos with community pools and i didnt like a community pool before all this i def dont want one now. i also worry i might not truly be able to relax ? so we are staying home this year. we also had a recent hail storm and are getting a new roof. insurance covered some but we still have to shell out a lot. so we went from 10 days in paris seeing the cutest 4 year old niece anyone has ever seen….to getting a new roof. i know first world problems….but im still a little sad. also hit a sprinkler line planting flowers this past weekend so now that’s another repair that needs scheduled. and finally, i am still scared about my job and my pay so i feel like the universe is telling me to just stay put and not spend anything outrageous right now.
Pretty sure British people think that having a whole room just to do your laundry is something that only happens on TV. More and more British kitchens are getting dishwashers, but it’s definitely still a luxury here. We’re hoping to get out kitchen remodeled soon, and I can’t wait to have a dishwasher for the first time in over 10 years. We had a trip to New York planned for the start of April that obviously didn’t happen, but if we travel abroad from the UK, we have to self-isolate for 14 days when we come back, so we won’t be leaving this island any time soon. I hope you get to go on your vacation. I need to see that traveling can still happen.
My ideal laundry room is a big room on the 2nd-floor, washer, and dryer, where everyone’s clothes are hung up and folded in drawers lining the walls. Lovely private dressing room. That way clothing never leaves the room and gets cleaned in the same room.
Never carrying laundry baskets up and down the stairs. or any lost socks!
Having a broken dishwasher is miserable! Which bouncy house/slide did you get? My kids are roughly the same ages as yours and I may take the plunge too. Whatever it takes!
Did you ever Read the sweet magnolia books? I read the years and years ago, so I don’t quite remember everything! But, if you haven’t, I would say that they were a precursor to Elin Hilderbrand for me. It’s why I love a series!