I had some ground pork in the freezer. I had picked it up to make some meat loaf, but then I found The Country Cook’s recipe which ended up not needing the pork after all (Tangent: want to make a small meatloaf with just 1 pound of ground meat? Brandie’s recipe is very very nice!) … Read more
Today was the first day of school in our boys’ public school system. Unlike our experience in Nebraska, where the boys walked to school and the parents were requested to spend the first hour of the first day of school with the kids…here the parents met with the teachers last week and the kids were encouraged to take the buses and get dropped off.
Dave and I didn’t have much to document this morning, since it was just them getting on the bus, but here are the pictures we did receive. Enjoy!
WARNING: This is a LONG post. I debated dividing it into two parts, but couldn’t find an easy dividing point. So instead I put in some headers to try to break up the story a bit. It was our entire motivation for our trip to Atlanta last weekend: we had Braves tickets! During Jacob’s … Read more
Wow, I’d been scarce from these for a while – the last one I did was #46. Oops. Well our lives are settling back to normal and I hope to become a regular here again. These ones should be simple this week 🙂 1. My spouse and I rarely agree on how much money we … Read more
Earlier this month the boys enjoyed a week-long Challenger British Soccer camp put on at the Navarre Youth Soccer complex up the street. My sister’s oldest son had attended in North Carolina in the past and really enjoyed it. The week was VERY hot, and the first day was pretty hard on the boys. But … Read more
This is officially called “The Confederate Memorial on Stone Mountain”. It’s the largest relief carving in the world…at least until the Crazy Horse Monument is finished. We all know who the guys are…who knows the horses’ names? As I’d mentioned in yesterday’s post about The Varsity, the only truly scheduled activity we had coming into … Read more
We took a long weekend and headed up to Atlanta. It’s about a 5.5 hour drive with no stops, plus we have a time zone change. We had nice seats at a Sunday afternoon Atlanta Braves game, and we booked a hotel room at a Comfort Inn right next to Turner Field, so we didn’t … Read more
Who knows what that is on his cake??? Hint: it’s supposed to look like that…
About a month ago, when our friends the Goldmans were visiting from North Carolina, Timmy and Johnny had apples as a snack. “Um, okay…I guess that’s exciting…” Wait, there’s more! I promise! Timmy typically makes one pass around an apple, taking off the skin and any flesh underneath that the first set of bites will … Read more