First off, I started a diet today. This past weekend, every meal looked something like this. This is Joe and Linda and they are holding a pan of carne asada which we had Saturday night for dinner. Let me tell you, every meal cooked by Joe is gourmet and an unbelievable taste sensation!
I finished boxing up some spring good mail goodies and thank you notes to be sent out and took them to the post office today...and waited 50 minutes in line! The line was incredibly long but I still think we have the slowest post office employees around. I swear they move in reverse.
I received a nice thank you card from Andie and her daughter "Boo" thanking me for a good mail package I sent to Boo. Yay, Boo is now completely potty trained! Andie is also the one who gave us the heads up about this candle. Yankee candles have been a favorite of mine for years but this scent is new and we're lovin' it.
Thought I'd show you a picture of my new reading/blogging area. I came up with the idea last week to make a little sitting area on one side of our patio and this is what we came up with. We saw this at Costco on Tuesday and thought it would suit our purpose perfectly. I'm really lovin' this!
Our son took hubby back to Costco to pick it up in his truck. On the way home, on a VERY BUSY STREET, this loveseat slid out of the back of the truck and right into traffic. Luckily, for one, it was very well packaged so no damage was done and secondly, no car ran into it!
I work on Tuesday and Wednesday so I have been busy today getting ready to leave town on Thursday for Arizona because guess who is coming home for 5 weeks???
Our daughter (little sis) is finishing up her freshman year at ASU this week and we go pack her up at the end of the week and bring her home for awhile. It seems like yesterday that I was crying the whole 8 hours home after we dropped her off at college...man that year zoomed by.
Well I guess I'd better get in there and finish cleaning (I'm sitting in my new sitting area outside right now.) My son has a friend from Brazil named Vivianne that is coming to our house for a few days on Thursday. We are sooo sad because we're leaving on Thursday for Phoenix and won't get to spend any time with her. Vivianne is moving back to Brazil permanently from Maui and wanted to see our son before she goes. Maybe it's good that we won't be home because it's going to be a sad good-by. I was hoping someday she was going to be my daughter-in-law! I just keep thinking...YOU NEVER KNOW!
15 comments:
Linda your new blogging area looks absolutely wonderful!!! Oh I wish I had space!!!! Every picture I see of your home makes me think I need to start doing something with mine!!! Have a great week.....xx
No fair Linda. A blogging area? Really now. You are the diva of blogging now and I will think about poor me as I sit inside on my hard chair. I am happy for you. Love it.
I love Carne Asada. My roommate from college was from El Centro, CA. She made the best Carne Asada. Oh yummy. Looks so good. Why diet. Eat more. Come on now.
Your daughter is a gem. So happy for her. Have a great week and just don't work to hard okay.
I love your new blogging area. That looks so inviting. Thank goodness no one got hurt with it falling out of the truck.
If you need any help this weekend let me know. I'm happy to help in anyway...
Maybe your son will decide to ask her to stay before she gets on the plane!
Drive safe & call for anything...
Hi Linda, Good luck on your diet.
Next time you're in the long line at the PO I double dog dare you to start singing "I'll be home for Christmas"! Always lightens up the mood.
Have a great week.
Brenda :)
We weigh in every Tuesday at dieting is not a piece of cake.
Love the new loveseat area! We went to California back in 1990 and it was so beautiful. My husband was sent to Desert Storm and they attached their Marine unit to one at Camp Pendelton and they went through some training before heading to Kuwait. I flew out there twice. They gave them Christmas weekend off so we went to Disney, Sea World, Universal Studios and a really scary section of East LA when we took a wrong turn. We went from San Diego to LA that weekend seeing everything we could. Beautiful and so clean and landscaped everywhere.
Linda, I love your Handsome Son and Little Sis posts! What great kids you have.
That Sand and Sun Candle looks interesting. I like Yankee brand and will have to look for that scent.
I love your new settee! I have never seen one like that and it is so neat! It looks perfect in that corner!
I am loving the blogging area! How fun for you to have a special area to relax, read, blog, etc.
How long will you be in Arizona? It would be fun to meet you, and go to lunch! :)
Oh my goodness. Isn't life busy?! You are absolutely one of the kindest women I have come across in some time... I mean, who else would stand in a line for 50 minutes to deliver "Good Mail?" You are, in a word, amazing.
I have so appreciated all the "Good Mail" you have sent my way.
Enjoy Arizona. I have been so homesick for Arizona the past few days.
Good Luck with the diet. I will be following soon... lest I look like the mother of the hippo come this August when Rachel gets married.
A whole blogging area! Jelous! I can't believe it fell off the truck! Yea, your daughter's coming home. How fun.
Linda:
You are just so Amazing!! Thank you so very much for the box of goodies you sent me. I can't tell you how much you brightened my day & lifted my spirits.
Thank you so very much, I truly appreciate it..
That food looks so good. You have such a pretty house, and I'm jealous of that blogging area!!! It's perfect.
Your daughter is so pretty. Wow, you are going to be very busy. Bless you dear.
Kathi
Happy weekend to you dear sweet Linda. Hope you get to see the kids.
somebody is going to be smiling big when they see one of those boxes by their front door :) I know you are excited to have your daughter home for the summer. I'll be thinking about you and the d-word. Good Luck.
Love all the pictures, love your home :)
Happy Mothers day to you!
Hugs,
Candy
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