July 5, 2005

  • This weekend was really great!


     


    We started out with a visit from Aunt Ginny and Uncle Nathan.


    They have been friends of the family since forever and ever so we call them family. Dwayne thinks this is unnatural, but whatever. Aunt Ginny is moving to New Mexico to live with her eldest son Paul and on the way out stopped in for a visit.


    It was so nice to have her and Uncle Nathan here. I have wanted to show her my yard ever since I move in! Aunt Ginny has inspired me in so many ways growing up, teaching me to cook and learn about different plants found outside. She is of the dying breed of honest to goodness farm–type women that knows how to make everything, grow everything and give giant hugs.  I got to hear all the news of her three sons, who were like brothers to me while I was growing up. I miss those days some times… going to collect eggs with Andy, throwing books at Mike till we hit him in the nose, sledding on the giant hill behind their house  and landing in the creek and all the close calls, like the time Paul got a screwdriver in the hand trying to chip away fool’s gold from rocks. So much fun to be had in the country. They stayed for two nights and were on their way to New Mexico.


    Saturday Dwayne set up a pool in the back yard. It is just great, the pool fit perfectly in an unused dog kennel in our back yard, basically a fenced in area with a cement slab. We never lock our dogs up but the kennel works perfectly to keep the little one out of the pool and the gate locks too! We spent the day in and out of the pool and napping. Dwayne and I tried to teach Georgia to put her face under the water but she thought we were “smelling” the water. Needless to say she tried it once and came up with red eyes and spewing water out of her nose. She just looked at us like we had tricked her into it.


    I’m planning an end of summer sale at my house this year. I want to sell homemade foods, cakes and unwanted plants from the yard. So this weekend, I made up a case of homemade salsa (I canned it in pint jars) which we snacked on all weekend long. I also made Perogies, yummy! I am planning to make more homemade pasta, ravioli and pesto for the sale. So I think the whole list will include dried herbs from the garden, wind chimes, salsa, pasta, homemade spaghetti sauce, ravioli, small cakes and whatever else I can come up with before it is time. My friend Jen is going to bring over things for a yard sale and her little girl is going to run a lemonade stand. I am hoping this goes well; I may do it every year. I like traditions.  Georgia helped me make the perogies…or shall I say a mess…


    Monday morning Georgia took off her diaper and threw it at my bed, that is when I knew I HAD to get up. I didn’t want to, but the consequences of letting a bare-assed baby run around in the crib is just not worth the hour of extra sleep.  So we get up. She finds a pair of my underwear…where I don’t know. And puts them on her arms twisted like in the front, almost resembling a bra. I whip them off of her and pick her up to go downstairs; she looks at me and says “Georgia is a goof ball”. I could barely stand it, how funny! We got started right away and packed up a fantastic picnic lunch. Watermelon and all.  When Dwayne got up we took turns in the shower, loaded the car and we were off for the festivities downtown, I had been looking forward to this all weekend. We made it in time for the parade. It was Georgia’s first parade and she loved it! She was saying “oooh, oooohh and OOO” it was cute.  She loved the motorcycles and police officers on horse back, after a while she realized that they were waving to her and so she would wave after they had passed. Someone gave her a flag and boy did she love that, waving it high and fast!  After the parade, we walked down to Triangle Park and made a spread, Georgia started in one the watermelon; luckily, I pulled off her shirt cuz she made quite a mess, much to the amusement of some old folks sitting near. After we ate it was time to move on, we walked around and saw tap dancers and craft booths, and boy there was a TON of henna painting booths and they were PACKED. Georgia had a lot of fun. Around dinner time we started for home, we were beaten by the heat and needed showers, all three of us.  Georgia had a little too much fun with some freshly squeezed lemonade so we had to strip her down before we got in the car. When we got home I was absolutely pooped. We had a little too much sun and no more energy. We snacked on some salsa and chips and then felt like making dinner.


    We ended the weekend with a Braves Game and fireworks in the front yard.  Georgia and I were going to sit in the front yard and watch but she was insistent on having Dad out there too. She would run from me to the door, banging to get in, saying “Daddy”. Dwayne came out and we watched for a while. We taught her a new word….Wow! So she would say “Wow” every time she would see fireworks in the sky. Occasionally, she would run back to the house and then back to us, it was really funny because she was wearing only a diaper and her wild hair bouncing with her big steps and running like the devil.


    Finally, Dwayne asked her if she wanted to go in and she nodded “Yes”.


    So we did.


     


     



     



     



     



     



     


    She is so cute.

Comments (1)

  • Could be the cutest kid in the entire free world(and the unfree parts too!) and oh, I dig your pasta maker! It too my kids forever to dunk their heads in the water...shampooing was always a major battle! -peace to you and yours-

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