oh my! a full month without blogging. so sorry so sorry so sorry sosorry.
summer fruits mean making jams and jellies! look at these adorable LABELS
what have i been doing? putting the finishing touches on my 3rd manuscript, hanging out in the backyard, tending my morning glories and poppies and peonies and hydrangeas galore. oh, and indulging in a weekly banana milkshake and these frozen GOODIES ( i like the milk chocolate babies!)
oh, and my little guy turned THREE over Memorial Day wknd (sharing a birthday with Anne!) Since he is too young to know what kind of "theme" he wants, and all he asked for was blue and red cupcakes and blue balloons, we decided to roll with the whole red, white, and blue thing. We had a giant bbq in the backyard for 20 some adults and 10+ kids under 5. We broke out the water table, the kiddie pool, the bean bag toss, the tee ball set, and our gardening wagon that comfortably holds 3 toddlers! D set up the backyard with all these little "stations"--who needs a Bounce House when you have a daddy like D around? ;)
I found cute little beach buckets with little shovels for a buck a piece(!) at AC Moore, then filled them with crayon stars, choco-star lollies, chocolate covered pretzel rods with red white and blue sprinkles on them that i made, and a sheet of star stickers. then i tied a red or blue balloon to each. The kiddoes were super psyched to get THEIR! VERY! OWN! BUCKET! and everyone, inc. parents were sent home with blue creamcheese frosted cupcakes (from scratch!) to boot. I made cupcake stands out of old boxes laying around and finished off with ribbon. 
Oh and LOST and Castle and 24 are done--for good (except for Castle, which had a horrible finale, if you could call it that) and thus, no more tv for me until Mad Men time again in July(?). Right now I am all about the fruit and reading and fruit and writing a line or three when I can. And the fruit.
Hace 6 días.
