Monday Morning Musings

How is it possible that it is already July?!  Honestly, weren't we just getting out of school?!  The weather this summer has been so strange!  I feel like I'm just now getting into the real summer spirit because Mother Nature has finally figured out it's supposed to be warm and sunny outside.  I'd like to say I'm not mad.  But I am.

As mentioned on Friday, I spent all day on Saturday scrapbooking.  I got lots done - but it took me forever to get into the spirit of creativity.  Most of the time I can crank out lots of layouts during an all day scrap.  This weekend...not so much.  I did get caught up on Kaitlyn's book.  I just have one layout to do for the book we started for the baby.  That's still a little surreal to me...but I'm just going with it.  :)

After I complained that Mother Nature and I were fighting during my Finally Friday post, she decided to offer a peace agreement and allow Kaitlyn, Kevin & I some time to swim on both Thursday night and Friday afternoon.  Friday afternoon was so much fun - we had some friends come swim with us and I was able to catch lots of good shots of them going down the slide and jumping off the side.  What a riot.

I really need to spend some time this week cleaning our house.  We have accumulated SO.MUCH.JUNK since moving in here one short year ago.  I see a haul to Goodwill in our near future.

My nails are a hot mess.  I have tried really hard this summer to keep polishing them and taking care of them weekly.  Yep, not so much.  They need some major attention.  Maybe this week!

It's been really fun to watch the "followers" grow on the right side of the blog.  I love to see who's all reading.  Some days I see a huge number when I check page views, other days not - but that's not really the ultimate purpose of this blog.  Although I really love that other people are looking at this little online home of mine.  It makes me happy.

Summertime in our home is a bit chaotic because Kaitlyn is with us 5 days a week {she's with her mom 5 days a week during the school year} and I'm off, but Kevin is still working.  In an effort to keep my OCD brain somewhat calm, we have created a few organizational tools this summer to keep things running smoothly.  I will share more in a later post - but here is one of my most favorite of the summer! On the inside of our pantry door: a lunch menu.  Kaitlyn is required to choose one thing from the first two columns and if she wants she can choose one thing from the third column.  It's helped with making healthier choices and she is still able to be self-sufficient.  Welcome to my happy place.  :)

Alright, that's all for this Monday morning.  Enjoy your week.  :)