Back to School

Good morning and Happy Hump Day friends.  How has your week been so far?  Great, I hope! Mine has been out of control at work - just SO CRAZY BUSY that it's unreal!  How many of you are out there getting ready for your babies to all start school again or have actually already gone back to school?  I have a confession, I am one of those moms who MISS my babies actually being young and being in school.  My two babies are grown already - my son is a junior in college and my daughter is married with a baby on the way.  I always enjoyed taking them back to school clothes shopping and school supply shopping and even loved labeling all of their stuff and putting it in their backpacks, and making their lunches, etc.  Yes, I am weird, I know, but I.LOVED.IT so much and really miss those special days with my kids - they've grown up so fast and it hurts this mommy's heart. :(

As a kid growing up and all through college, I LOVED SCHOOL.  I lived and breathed school.  My mother always joked that I should have been a professional student, that's how much I loved being a part of school.  I guess I chose the wrong profession, as I should have been a teacher so that I could attend school every day of the year, and have my summers off.  LOL  I think the only reason I didn't become a teacher is because back home in Arkansas teachers made very little money - I'm talking, MAYBE $18,000 a YEAR, if that.  It was awful!!!  Teachers do SO much to shape the minds of our children and deserve so much more of a pay raise and I just couldn't stomach making so little for my future.  

So do you and your kids have any back to school traditions? I would love to hear all about them! I've enjoyed getting to see my friend's kids pictures on their first day back to school and would love to see yours as well!  

I'm going to leave you with one of my favorite quotes, from one of my all-time favorite movies:

"Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me wanna buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address. On the other hand, this not knowing has its charms." Joe Fox

I know, I'm a weirdo, but that is truly one of my most favorite all-time movies, and one of my favorite quotes in the movie.  I actually happen to LOVE New York in the Fall - it.is.breathtaking! So, please share with me your favorite back to school traditions - I would love to hear all about them! 

Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by to say hello.  Please let me know you were here. :)

Lots of love and hugs,

Back to School - Back to Reality

Happy Tuesday my friends!  Hope you had a great Monday.  Ours was good and busy as usual.  Of course, the BIG NEWS here was the kids went BACK TO SCHOOL - WOO HOOO!!!!  And as promised - here are their obligatory first day of school pictures (they try and humor their mama (me) as much as possible) - hee hee hee

This, of course, is Miss Priss putting her "face" on first thing
(excuse the yellowness in this picture - don't know what was wrong here):

And this is Mr. Handsome trying to hide as much as possible

before he HAS to show his face:

 My baby girl on her very first day of her Senior Year - *boo hoo*

 Close-up of my baby girl:

 My two "babies" together:

 My "baby" boy on his first day of Junior Year - *sniff, sniff*:

 Me and my baby boy -

(not such a good shot of me, but it WAS early) LOL

 Me and my baby girl (2nd take) - HA!

My husband was gone already by this time, so he didn't get to be in any of the pictures.  I hope to get some of him and the kids sometime this week since he leaves later than all of us for the next 3 days.

Well, I hope you enjoyed the pictures.  Thanks for stopping by to say hello and please be sure to add my new website to your blog roll if you still want to follow me. 

Have a great day!

Lots of love and hugs,



Weekend Recap & Back to School

Happy Monday my peeps!  How are you?  How was your weekend?  Do anything fun and exciting?  We went to Razorback Country and visited with the in-laws and then headed out to Eureka Springs for the day.  It was a great weekend and a great day!  Here are a few pictures for you:

Old Time Candy Sticks:

  Dress made out of a newspaper:

Singing "Old Red"

Beautiful Arkansas Ozark Mountains

  My family in the same exact spot I took a picture of them 14 years ago

when our babies were only 4 years old - wish I could find the picture to compare it to side by side.  Steven was holding them in the earlier picture but they are WAY TOO BIG now and I think they are holding HIM up here - HA!

On another note - today is the first day of back to school for my kiddos and I am SO happy but sad at the same time - happy because they can't waste their lives away sleeping all day long (HA) and sad because my baby girl is a senior this year and my son, a junior - ACK!  Talk about time flying!  I will have pictures to share tomorrow of their first day of this year. 

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by! :)

Lots of love and hugs,