Everyone Deserves a Big Breakfast

I have great memories of big breakfasts with my parents. If we went to church on Saturday night, my mom would make us a big breakfast on Sunday morning with eggs, biscuits and gravy, sausage or bacon, toast...you name it. It was like a buffet only we ate everything.

I woke up Sunday morning thinking about that since we had gone to church the night before. I wondered why I never made big breakfasts for my family. Then I realized it's because I'm tired in the morning. I just want a cup of coffee. I felt bad.

Everyone deserves a big breakfast every once in awhile. But it doesn't have to be in the morning.



So later we we went to the store and got sausage and biscuits. I made milk and sausage gravy from scratch just like my moms. I thought it was delicious, if I do say so myself. Luke and Willow also loved it. Abby and Jason, not so much. I also made sausage patties and links and fried eggs. It was very filling and worth it for the memories. I doubt it meant anything to the others, but it was special for me.

Free Not-Necessarily-Fire Wood

Free wood. Think of the possibilities!

What's up with September

Abby and Luke are back in swimming lessons at the Y. They love them, especially Abby. I'm hoping she will get to the point where she swims on a team and eventually gets a scholarship from a division 1 school. No pressure. Luke likes it too, but he's a bit terrified of the diving board. I'll let you know if he ever gets up the nerve to jump off.































I have spent my free time this week cleaning up after the hurricane. It feels so weird to say that so I keep saying it when I can. A hurricane hit Indiana. I can't imagine what it's like on the coast. We lost 2 large limbs and several medium and small limbs out of one tree (that tree will have to be put down), 1 large limb out of another tree and 2 medium limbs out of another tree. Amazingly, nothing was damaged but the trees and my newly planted grass seed.

A Little Behind

I've gotten a little behind on the posting. Here are some August pictures to get us caught up.


Willow moved to a forward facing car seat and loves it.




Luke had his first day of pre-school. I forgot to pick him up the first day. I guess I won't be winning mom of the year now.





We finally got around to working on the backyard. We bought 26 tons of dirt and my dad spread it all out with a tractor. We then bought and spread grass seed and straw and commenced with the watering.




And just for laughs:

To my friends and family:

Thank you to everyone who has donated to Race for the Cure so far. In just 9 days, you have given $215 out of my $300 goal. I have two and half more weeks to get the rest. That sounds doable. Thanks again everybody!