The Last Year of My 50s - My Birthday Month Has Been Busy and I Am So Grateful For Everything I Have

I thought turning 59 would be scary and make me really sad. Shockingly it wasn't and it didn't. Next year is the big 60 and I find myself between being excited that I am still here because my mom didn't make 34 year and I have always thought I would die young, and feeling sad about leaving my kids one day.  But are we ever really ready to go?  Don't most of us wish we had another 59, 60, 70, 80, 90 years? 

For my birthday I bought myself a shirt that read Last Year In My 50s to wear on my Birthday. I wanted to feel special for the day because well in case no one else was going to tell me damn it, I am special. We all are.

My Birthday was nice! The gifts were all so thoughtful. My daughter got me a crucifix for my car, a pill box for all my vitamins and a phone charger for my car, my son got me a pillow for "hot" sleepers.  Anyone else always too hot to sleep? My husband got me two different journals, and "beachy" stickers and scrapbook paper because we were heading down to Wildwood, New Jersey.

she made the box and the card too! SOOO Thoughtful

Then the day before my birthday I got a surprise gift from a dear friend. She knocked it out of the park with this gift.  Socks that say Fuck Off, I'm Reading, coasters that look like old library due date envelopes, and a tote bag which I have been using every day. 

We also headed to Wildwood for a few days after telling my husband I longed to smell the salt air and the ocean. 

After working through most of the summer it is nice to have three days off before meetings and back to work. I am blessed and so grateful for my life. I thank God every day for everything I have and if I am having a bad day I know that it will be better and can easily get through any moments that leave me feeling sad, lonely or empty because I know that God is always with me and I am truly never alone on this path we call life. 

God is Good, All The Time, All The Time, God Is Good

The Texas Roadhouse Was Amazing

 

My husband is a guy who likes what he knows. He’s not one who wants to try new things. If it was up to me, we would go somewhere new every time we go out. He likes to try and true so we usually end up at our favorite Mexican restaurant or Outback, basically somewhere basic he’s a basic kind of guy.

He’s not into special foods that are paired together for the pallet and create a magical tasting experience, he likes his diner size portions. The more food the better. He wants to be stuffed and rolling out of there if we have gone out to eat.

We were out and about and I put in Google maps restaurants with a destination of about 10 miles away. A few things came up and I knew that my daughter wouldn’t find anything to eat there. Knowing my husband is very particular I spotted Texas Roadhouse! We had never been there, and when we walked in, we were very excited.

It was a cool place first of all with a moose head on the wall deer heads lots of people. It was packed for 3 o’clock in the afternoon. That’s always a good sign. The first thing they asked was do you wanna pick out your steak? I’ve never been asked that before  so I walked over to the butcher display and peeked! The steaks all looked good to me. I would take any of them so I told them no.

We ordered three appetizers! My son and I got steak and rib combo. My husband got some sort of chicken dish and my daughter got boneless buffalo wings the only wings that she will eat. 

All of our meals came with two sides, except for the boneless wings, which was an appetizer and it was all delicious. Not a place that’s close to us. It’s about a 50 minute drive but my husband kept saying I hope it doesn’t get any better because we’ll never come back here. Odd thing to say and the kids asked why he would say such a thing but  I know exactly why he said it.  You can only go down once you’ve reached the top. The Texas roadhouse was definitely for my family, a 9/10.  I loved it. It was a little expensive but we did get a lot of food and I’m gonna talk him into going back. My birthday is in August and this is my pick for dinner.

Have you ever gone to a Texas Roadhouse Restaurant? Even the complimentary rolls and cinnamon butter was amazing. 

Window Views & Family Shares

 

I don’t know if this is everybody’s family but for some reason, my family has always been a sky watcher. We spent a lot of time sending each other pictures of the sky or having someone look at the sky or calling them into their room to look at the sky. It’s the sky. I mean we all see it. Everyone sees it, but there’s just something about sharing this love with my family that I really enjoy and I hope that they never lose this love. Praying that my children continue after I’m gone,  sending pictures, no matter where they are in the world, of the sky.

I will never tire of taking photos of the beautiful sky. The colors, the clouds, the framing of the trees. This is just through my living room window, but it is the window that we constantly call each other over to so we can share in the spectacular painting of changing vibrant sky. 

Does your family do this? 

Things I Am Too Old To Care About! Don’t Wait Too Long To Change

As I’ve gotten older, I’ve noticed there are many things that I am unwilling to care about. For instance; I’m unwilling to care about what anybody thinks about me. I don’t need you to like me. I don’t care if you like me I don’t worry about how I look, or how I present to the world. It’s actually  a good place to be after so many exhausting years of worrying about everything. Do I look pretty? Did I say something stupid? Is my skin Ok? My teeth? Am I too fat?  Etc etc etc.

What I do care about is if I like myself. Liking yourself is probably one of the most important things you can do for yourself.

I also don’t care if I’m understood. I don’t care if you don’t like my clothes, hair, makeup, blah blah blah. The list goes on and on.

The things I do care about though like  am I doing right by myself? Do I want to do this or that? If the answer is no, I will not do it. I don’t have any problems saying no anymore. I used to be something that was very hard for me. 

I wish I didn’t take so long to get to this place in my life. I find peace and knowing that I finally made it there and putting I do sometimes Who cared about everything and worried about everyone, but honestly that was exhausting! It made me angry, unhappy and powerless!  If you are like I was, you can stop it. You have the power! If you wanna change, change! If you wanna say no! Say no! If you don’t give an F then don’t do it. Don’t  sell yourself!  Don’t put yourself and your needs or feelings last. Make sure you are putting yourself on the top of the list of important things in your life. 

You are worth it! 

Life Recap June 2025

Oh my God there is just so much going on. I am now waiting for my daughter to finish her 4th driving class after dropping my son off at his job. I do a lot of sitting in my car, which means I do a lot of reading, playing phone games, listening to podcasts and thinking. Right now I’m thinking about my blog which has been something that I get to once in a while and not as often as I like.

I’m not even sure that blogs are something that people read anymore and it doesn’t matter because really, I started this for me in the beginning. I would love it if people read it and if they get something out of it, but from the beginning I just was trying to create a story, a timeline that my kids can,  if they choose to look at or read, get to know me after I’m gone.

This is all from losing my mom when I was only 12 and how I longed to really know her, to know who she was, to see what she thought about, what kind of woman she was. I just really NEEDED to know her.  Since that could never happen, I decided my kids would never wonder who I was and started blogging.

As I wait for my daughter to finish her driving test, I am amazed at how fast time has gone. I still see her as a three-year-old,  as a seven-year-old, as a 10-year-old,  as a 15-year-old and now she’s 20 and man time has flown. 

Spending time with my kids is truly my favorite thing to do. Driving my son to his job means I get to talk to him in the car. My daughter sometimes comes sometimes doesn’t depends on what we’re doing but just the fact that she wants to hang out with me still at 20 even if it’s just to drive him to work really makes my heart so happy. 

June has flown by. It’s already June 22. I don’t feel like I’ve done anything exciting this year. I’ve just been working.  Two jobs please pet sitting. I work at a Bus Garage as a one on one bus monitor and I’m still at a preschool that I worked out for 11 years part-time so I spent a lot of time working. I also spend a lot of time driving my kids around.  My son to and from work. I live  1/2 hour away  and then there’s the waiting for him to get relieved. My daughter, I drive to her driving class or we just head out on the weekend because I know that she just needs to get out of the house so we just drive.  Sometimes it’s to a store, sometimes there’s no destination. I still feel like we have to be more mindful and find things to do to  create memories instead of just part of our mundane already boring lives. She’s getting older and I wanna create memories that hold her long after I’m gone.

My husband’s been busy with the garden, which looks beautiful, but I wish he was someone who would prefer to do things not just at home but outside the house. He could go for a walk with us, to the movies or just come out with us when we leave the house. He is someone who is very sad in his way is and very self driven. It’s not a bad thing. It just means we don’t spend as much time with him as we wish we did.

Hopefully in July, I can see some friends that I haven’t seen in way too many years. Life is getting faster and my days are getting shorter. I’ll be 59 in August and I know how fast 59 came and I know I don’t have 59 more years so it’s time to make some mindful changes that hopefully just continue to brighten my life and make me happy. 

Heartstrings and Sweet Words: My Daughter's Touching Take On Our Bond

Today my daughter said the nicest thing to me and I need to leave it here forever.

She was talking about a friend who hangs with someone because this friend needs to leave the house once in a while. Her friend doesn't like spending time with this person and complains but will go to their house or take drives with them. I asked why would she torture herself like that if she doesn't like them and she said "She is bored, has bad Wi-Fi and she doesn't have YOU to talk to."

This is probably the sweetest thing she could have said to me.  I mean I try! I believe we have a great friendship and lots in common but never want to overstep what I feel thinking she just deals with me because we are in the same house. It feels so nice to hear. I didn't make much of it in fact didn't say anything about it but my heart swelled. 

Christmas Day RoundUp

 Christmas was amazing and I loved all my gifts. 

My son bought everyone gifts this year. Two each! So sweet. My daughter made me something as she aways does and it was as heartfelt as ever and my husband actually got something for the kids from him which has hasn't done since they were toddlers. Oh my heart was full.

1:30 AM Christmas Morning! Instead of my husband and I running gifts upstairs while the kids slept, my son helped me. This was monumental because as a 21 year old Autistic it was only 2 years ago he found out who provides the magic and I think last year he was on the fence even though he knew. He was hopeful. I loved having him help with the stockings and placing the gifts.

Christmas morning! There is JUST something about the pictures of our tree decorated and all the presents under it. The gifts have changed over the years. There are less. They are much smaller. The four of us get for each other instead of just mom and dad providing and we have decorated empties for the days before and after Christmas. 

This guy had the best Christmas. He was having an 80s theme Christmas and wanted to feel like a kid again. He bought and had me wrap a few games for him.

My daughter's gift always makes me smile. It was a decorated box with a Safe Travel Pouch for my new job. I love to drive and as a bus monitor and not in charge of driving she knows I get anxious. I LOVED it. She also made me a cross necklace. BUT this box!!! Perfection.

 So beautiful

My kids do not like their pictures taken so none of them are of them looking but I will always take their picture. WHAT DO THEY KNOW?! One day they will want these.

It was a great day.

My husband got me cast iron pans which I never asked for but he has always wanted. They are pretty nice! He also got me the scent of my favorite hotel, some journaling supplies and a hat, scarf and mitten set for my new job which in the morning is very cold!

My son got me journaling supplies and a winter "ugly" sweater. He has one I got him from last year and wanted me to have one too for my "cold" job. One problem. The sweater isn't ugly at all. He did a great job picking it out. It is nice and my husband likes it. "I wouldn't call this  ugly at all"

Everyone was happy with their gifts and there was only 2 items of clothes that needed to be returned but one seller told me to not bother and refunded the money.

Perfect Christmas with my favorite people.

Christmas 2024 Round - Up

˜”*°•.˜”*°• Christmas was great! •°*”˜.•°*”˜

We spent Christmas Eve with my in-laws for the first time in 17 years. We usually go after Christmas but this year we went on the eve which was so nice! We stopped years ago because they tend to wait until midnight to open gifts and as a mom with two young kids. Didn't like having two overtired babies wait until midnight, drive 50 minutes back home and then get two sleeping children hopefully into their beds, put presents under the tree praying they wouldn't wake and try to get a few hours in before they woke to open their presents "from Santa".

PLUS they didn't get to do my tradition which was leaving cookies and milk for Santa, putting reindeer food outside, listening to a Christmas story or watching a Christmas movie and going to bed excited for Santa. I felt like that Christmas magic was being missed and I really wanted it for them. It is such a short lived moment in their childhood but the memories last forever. 

While one of my sister-in-laws was really annoyed when I told her that very first missed Christmas that she didn't understand "my tradition" because Christmas was about being together with all the kids and how important her families tradition was, I felt my families tradition was just as important but the kids enjoyed opening their gifts after a good night's sleep, weren't overtired and crying and then forced to go to bed instead of playing with their gifts. We usually went the day after Christmas to my in-laws because I found it wrong to have my kids open gifts then leave them to get in the car to drive out on Christmas Day.

People are different and I get it that not everything works for everyone but my husband was in agreement and I would never change my kids' Christmases. They were so much fun.

But....now they are older and Christmas Eve at my in-laws was really nice. We ate, played Uno, Facetimed my niece in CA and opened gifts earlier than they usually do which we really appreciated. 

I LOVED it!

I hope everyone had a great Christmas. What was your favorite part?

Ways To Cut Down On Your Children's Screen Time

 

Are you sick of looking at the top of your kids head at dinner, in the car, or anywhere else? I know I am! I am even tired of looking at the top of their friend's heads when they come over.  Parents, we are not innocent either. How many of you can say that you are constantly on your phone? Checking Facebook, email, texts, weather, playing a game, reading a book, etc., We are all making connections virtually but isn't it time we make a conscious effort to put those phones down and connect with the people we love!?

My friends and I have been discussing this for a while now. Our kids are on the phone all the time. Not like when we were kids and our parents could tell us it was time to hang up because they needed the phone. There are so many ways for our kids to connect with the rest of the world but NOT with us. Even when their friends come over, I hear zero talking. Why? Because their friends have their faces in their phones.   Even after school I drive one of the kid's  friends home and have to say, "put your phone down" so we can talk.   When did a "play date" become quiet time? When I was a kid if my friend was with me we would never shut up. Now I can hear a pin drop even with three girls in the  house.

 My kids do not have actual phones. They have older phones that we no longer have service on that we have allowed them to use if they are able to connect to a network. At home this is easy.  Every once in a while they ask when they will have one like their friends and we tell them it is not necessary at this time and what they have is fine.

I have instituted a schedule for the house where ALL electronics need to be put down for a few hours. Today I have taken Facebook off my phone and will now only get on it when I have a chance to sit at the computer. It takes way too much of my time and while I will miss it eventually I will get use to it.  I hope that by my kids seeing me less on the phone they will follow but I also think all of us need to do this!  In the coming years our kids will be home less and less. Friends, boyfriends, girlfriends, jobs, college, and eventually a career, and family of their own means you will see them less and less. Time flies and we need to spend more time together.

Here Are 4 Ways To Cut Down Your Kids Screen Time:

1. FIRST! Cut down your own time. Spend more time being available and present. We all know our kids learn by example so be the example. Take Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest or whatever off your phone.  You may not know everything the moment it happens but you will eventually hear it so it is OK...remove it. I did and it was easy.

2. Do not allow phones or tablets at the table, in the car (unless you are on a road trip over 35 minutes), during a movie, or in the bathroom (Why do we do this? Hanging on the toilet isn't good for anyone).

3. Set Limits - There should always be limits. There is no reason for someone to have their face in the phone all day.  And...make sure they shut their devices down an hour before bed. You can watch TV as a family, read a book, color, draw, or just sit and talk. It is OK to press the power button, we will all be OK. With Windows 10 you can set a timer on your child's computer. I have one on my son's but not my daughter's because she doesn't have Windows 10 yet. It is the best thing I ever did!

4. Keep them busy. Yes! This sometimes means you need to schedule things. It requires work on your part. Watch a movie, play a game, get your sleeping bags and head to the living room floor for a "sleep-over", go outside when the weather is warmer, get on your bikes, go to the park, get involved in a community clean up, volunteer at an animal shelter, clean together, organize closets, drawers, etc. If you are doing it together it goes fast, they stay busy and you have the opportunity to talk about everything and anything.

So, if you are looking for me please text me or better yet call me. I no longer have Facebook on my phone. We should talk. I can't wait to catch up with you.

life update

 I took my son to Tao tonight and left Goddess home with her daddy. I believe it is good to spend time with each child individually. When we were walking out he asked, "just me and you?" Hopefully Goddess had some quality time with her daddy.

Speaking of her Daddy the Teach; why is it ok for him to have a bad few days and I am not allowed to have even an hour of a bad mood. Seriously, I couldn't really tell you what bug is up his arse because it is not like he talks about anything with me. It gets so annoying to live in the same house with someone and have no idea what is going on. He is extremely busy but, who isn't in this life. Yes, we have different kinds of busy, he is self employed and doing the job of 20 but why is he allowed to ignore or be left alone to work on his Accounting? When I was learning his Accounting I was running a house, taking care of kids and their schedules, maintaining my blogs and my friendships, paying bills and being his wife. Men could never do what we do. I know I couldn't do what he does either but....
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I am not even sure if he is taking over the Accounting or if he is learning this program and handing it back over to me.

This month I had an appointment with our Accountant. After listening to the dude I come home and told my husband what he told me and that this guy stressed me out and that when we could afford an Accountant we should consider using him.

Rewind - When my husband handed over Quickbooks to me, he gave me all of his books on running a business, business accounting, Quickbooks, Financial forms and state laws and regulations and wanted me to devour over the books and learn how to basically be the Controller/Accountant. I don't know about most people but I cannot do that. I don't learn that way. Reading technical books on something that has no interest for me will never sink in. This is not to say that there aren't folks who can learn like this. My husband can. He can read any technical book on any subject and learn it. More power to him. I am proud that he can do that. The problem is...he thinks everyone SHOULD be like that and trying to tell him that isn't possible makes him crazy. He thinks that I am lazy and looking for the easy way out. Not true...I can learn something new, if someone has already educated themselves like lets say a teacher. Then they can take what they learned and educate me through lesson plans and hands on training.
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Yesterday I had a playdate with my friend Susan. She and her daughter braved the random icy roads to stop by for a few hours.

It was cute to see her watch her God-brother play his Wii game. She just stood there staring at the TV. Occasionally she would stand directly in front of the TV and he would ask her to move. She is 2, she didn't and he played around her. I was so proud of him. No shoving or yelling just played around her. Good boy. I love that he understands she is a baby and that he needs to be patient.

Goddess on the other hand was really confused. She was upset that this wasn't a "play date". She thought that they would play. Babygirl is still very much on independent play, so much so that Goddess helped her mommy open her Christmas presents. Babygirl was much too busy buzzing to stop and open so Aunt Susan and Goddess sat down to open things. I always think it's cute when my daughter has conversations with another mommy. I love watching the dynamic from the outside.

I thought she understood that those were Babygirl's gifts and she was helping to open them. I really did think that until she said, "I can't believe you let them leave with all our gifts." Too funny.
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On the Goddess's front today she said, "I like Abuela. She is different than us. She has tan hair and we have brown." When I asked about the tan hair, she said no "pan." Not sure what that means but....funny to me anyway.

Also, I entered a giveaway for a bag today and when I asked her which one she would want to win she said, The Booby and The Beast one." Hahahahahah

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Time to put the kids to bed!
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Thankful and Grateful - The Storm of 2024

We are still digging out and cleaning up but we are so thankful and grateful that we are okay. I am a firm believer in it could always be worse. 

Thursday a freak unprecedented storm swept through my small community had my family and others running for cover, knocking down trees left and right, smashing through roofs, taking out all our power lines and devastating many. We were the lucky ones. 

I woke early to get to work as usual. My hours are from 7:30 but I tend to get there a half hour to an hour early because I hate jumping in the deep end of the pool when I first get to work. Wading in is better for my head and my soul. When I backed out of the driveway at 6:38 I took a photo of my house for my husband. He was asleep inside and the house looked beautiful. All the colors were amazing. Our Memorial Day flag was up, our normal flag was blowing, the trees were in full bloom, flowers so pink. It was just amazing.

At 7:15 I saw it getting really dark at work and went outside to watch this crazy rain storm sweep across the sky. I watched these crazy clouds start closing out any lightness. I called a co-worker to watch the storm with me. She told me there was too much lightening and I should head inside. At 7:20 I started walking into the building when I received a text from my daughter. “R U Okay?”

I turned away from coworkers and called her. “Mom we are having a tornado.” I can hear my husband’s voice it is shaky. They are telling me there is a lot of rain and to take cover because they were now getting hail. I told them to keep me in the loop and hung up telling a coworker t what I learned and to check on her family as we are both in the same town. 

Thankfully her family was okay. Mine started sending me pictures. That were devastating.

At 7:18 my husband was drinking his coffee looking out the living room window. He said the clouds were weird colors and stacked like a sandwich. The colors were odd and he remembers saying “that’s weird. Never saw anything like that before. Then the  wind started to kick up and spinning around the yard. All the trees were swaying, a very large tree from in front of us slammed down and he booked down the hallway telling me kids to get downstairs. My daughter had a friend over and she said as they were running down the stairs her friends fingers on hire shoulders were shaking. My husband was yelling, ,they had just opened their eyes to his banging on the door and all they heard was wind, hail and the thumping of trees and pole falling. 

I am so happy that my husband was working from home. If I was getting this message from her and the kids were alone I would have been freaking out. 

They got downstairs near our laundry room which is in the center of the house. 

I will forever be grateful, thankful and blessed that my family, house and the car was spared because my neighbors were not so lucky.

God is good! I was able to work my full day knowing he was with them.

My daughter sent me pictures throughout the day. The took forever to get to me and were poor quality due to WiFi but I got the gist. We were super lucky because it can always be worse and it was for so man

Nothing prepared me for what I saw when I finally got home. It took an hour. Usually it takes me 18 minutes. There were many road closures and still are depending on what they are working on. One road may be open in the morning but closed later so you need to give yourself a lot of time in case of that. 

Buses were hit with trees and trapped. People were taken by ATV home or to the school depending on the situation and thankfully no one was hurt! 

We are in a private community which means we are the responsibility of no township. We are part of a township but because we are not part of the village nor are we anywhere near the township we are part of no one is doing anything. In fact there is a community and a homeowner who were still trapped in their home until yesterday. Disgusting.

We are still cleaning up. My husband and my neighbors cut apart a massive tree that blocked our road with chainsaws, chains, a pick up truck and brute strength. My kids worked over the past few days like no one else each lifting over 1000 pounds of wood, logs and debris.

We are out over $1800 already because unless there is structural damage insurance covers nothing. 

They are saying microburst not tornado while others have confirmed a tornado. Whatever it was it was bad and we are still without cable/WiFi. We got our power back three days later but there are still generators running for the homes that had damage. We were lucky. It can always be worse. 

Spending time with my family over these past few days has been amazing. Everyone stepped up and worked hard. I am grateful! I am thankful! I am blessed!

 The first photo I got when my family opened the front door.

Some pictures I took when I got home

Summer Mall Trips = Money Spent

Last week my son asked if we could go to the mall on my first day off. I took him of course because I took Mondays and Fridays off to spend time with my kids so if he wants to go. We will go!

We went on Friday. He wanted to play some arcade games and bowl. When we got there, the first shop we passed he went in and bought himself three t-shirts, a letter jacket and a pair of socks. Then wanted to go into another store where he bought himself some plush Mario thingy. He did eventually bowl but ended up spending about $200. I bought myself a skirt, took the kids to lunch and eventually back home. I figured the mall was good for him because this was the first time he had his own debit cart with his own money. He didn't have to ask if he could have anything and just got whatever he wanted because it is his money.

Today we again went our separate ways at the mall.  I sadly had to return the skirt I bought because it was too small and finally met up with him where he again had a bag full of stuff again. I didn't ask what he got, it is none of my business. He has showed me more plushies. He wants to collect them. That's fine, like I said it is his money but NOW I took them to lunch again. That has to stop. I told them we cannot go to lunch every time we go out because I am only working 3 days a week this summer. My daughter, Goddess asked if she could kick in and I told her not this time. We will probably split the next lunch. I love going out and being with them but hate spending money especially when I am working less days and we are planning vacation, need work done on the house, need to put both kids in college this year and Christmas is only a few short months away. Come on PowerBall let me win this year so that I can quit my job and take my kids to lunch if we go out. 

I can see a future budgeting talking with him in the future but for now we will let it go so he can experience not always being able to afford what he wants as his bank balance gets lower. 

My Life In Pictures July 8 - July 14

 July 8 - Painting with different paint brushes. I love showing the class different ways to do things. We used a truck, a ball and this bit of bubble wrap to paint. 

July 9 - My daughter thought we looked funny standing at DMV and took this photo. She said, I looked so short. Yeah, you think? I am 4'11".

July 10 - My son's Godmother Bek and I headed out for a sauna session which was unbearable. I think I lasted about 10 out of the 30 minutes. UGH!

July 11 - Not even sure why I took this photo but it was the only photo of the day. Oh I remember. Bek sent it to me. She won!

July 12 - Got a little burnt at the pool today. UGH!

July 13 - Painting some cookies.

July 14 - Showing my class some items from the ocean. They loved holding the seahorse and starfish

My Life In Pictures June 25 - June 30

June 25 - My husband and I took the kids to the Summer's here fair the Fire Department throws. My husband has only come with us 1 year so it was nice to have him with us. My daughter's bestie and her mom met up with us this year so she had someone to pal around with. 

June 26 - My daughter and I got lemonade at the Fire Department's fair last night. We made our carrot juice and enjoyed it in our new cups. It contained carrots, apples, ginger and lemon. So good.

June 27 - This beauty and I went out for a lovely walk. We love walking and seeing the sights. 

June 28 - Sage is our craziest cat. She is our most vocal, cries for attention but the moment you give it to her, she wants you to get as far away from you as possible.

June 29 -Gifts from sweet people make my day. 

June 30 - My homemade acai bowl was delicious