These Were a Few of My Favorite Things

There was a time when I enjoyed summer. When I spent the morning until dusk outside, climbing trees, playing tag, picking berries-- stopping briefly to eat lunch.

Yesterday the family headed to a friends for a cookout I decided to bring some things that reminded me of those long summer days

Rolls of caps.... whats more fun that a little gunpowder?

Punch Balloons

Sparklers

My hubs asked if I bought cap guns. "Nope" I replied, "I used to spend hours exploding them with rocks. they'll still have fun". 

I wasn't wrong BUT I never expected that the boys would take the rock method to a whole new level. At first it dud start out with tap, tap, tapping with small rocks on the explosive dots on the rolls of caps. But then the minds of the eight and nine year old boys kicked in. If a small rock worked to make a little bang what would a BIG rock do? Well-- they results where exactly as they hoped. Dropping the small boulder above the strategically placed caps caused spark flying explosions that send billowing smoke into the air. No joke.

The mom in me was a little nervous as I watched, but the little me? She thought AWESOME!

This was a day my guy and his friend will remember when they are my age. Hopefully they'll bring caps to a cookout with their kids some day!

[awkward moments] Save the Date

When I was in first grade I heard that a girl in my class was having a birthday party and assumed that I was invited. Why wouldn't I be? So I brought a gift to school that day and didn't get on the bus to go home. Lets just say that didn't end very pretty.

Recently my friend Kath emailed me with the subject: SAVE THE DATE. I was super excited to see what this event was! Opening the email my heart sunk.

"Are you guys planning on going to Thom's wedding? We definitely are. Planning on spending some time in San Fran the week after"

[insert sad face] I was instantly six-year-old Kerry again.

Thom a dear friend that introduced my husband and I. And yes, we were planning on going, but-- nope we didn't get a save the date. Maybe ours is just a little behind in the mail. We do live in a more urban area than Kath-- that makes mail slower, right?

But, no, it never came.

I brought the subject up with my husband. "Will you ask if we are invited?"

"No" he replied. "Of course we're invited"

I wasn't sold. I mean being that six year-old-girl left crying after school with a carefully wrapped game of Pick-Up Sticks (yes, that game sucks, but in retrospect she most likely deserved it) is sad enough, but the grown-up equivalent being left on the East Coast with plane tickets and a hotel reservation is a whole other level of sad.

So today when I was emailing with Thom about something else I brought it up. and.....

WE'RE INVITED

that wasn't awkward at all :/