Cheap Entertainment

Sometimes I just need a reminder— 

 it doesn’t matter how much we spend at the store;

favorite toys are almost always free.     

Summertime Cookin

Our Favorites From the Menu:

Grass Stir Fry

Dirt & Flower Stew

Chocolate Weed Cake

Clover & Diasy Cupcakes

 

I absolutely adore this mudpie kitchen from Rhythm of The Home (found via Crafty Crow!

If I enjoyed inside-REAL cooking half this much, I’d be serving gourmet style meals every night for sure!  

Enjoy your last weeks of summer cooking and fun!

xoxoxoxoxoxo

 

 

The Fair

 Cotton Candy

Sticky Smiles

Crazy Colors

&

Kiddie Rides

The fair is my favorite summertime thing.

 

Never a dull moment.

It was too hot to venture outside…  

and I suggested that we have a bit of fun in recycling an old phonebook.  

Oh my.

Best 30 minutes they’ve enjoyed in a long time!

 

Playtime Before Sunset

Dear God,

Thank you for your constant presence in my life. 

Thank you for joyful playtime before sunset, smiles,

and your loving arms that wrap me with grace and love when I stumble. 

Thank you for these children and all the joy they bring to my life.  

Love, Me  

 

Farkle & Fun Out Back

Enjoy the little things,

for one day you may look back

and realize they were the big things.

–Robert Brault–

My kind of basketball…

I took the big boys to see the Harlem Globe Trotters last night.

I loved their dunks and their crazy ball handling skills.  

 The humor was good, but the talent was spectacular!  

And of course the boys suckered me into getting an official BALL—-

Swings Glorious Swings

swingalittle

Galdwell’s book BLINK: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking really inspired me during this shoot.  The premise of Blink is that spontaneous decisions are often as good as— or possibly better than– carefully planned out ones. Doesn’t this just make sense?  BLINK reminds me that my most treasured photographs are those where I didn’t think about what I was doing;  I just clicked and loved and laughed.

Here’s to wind blowing on our cheeks and carefree days of thinking without thinking.

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