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I haven’t posted much for over a week. I’ve been working on some other projects, and I guess blogging fell to the bottom of the list.
I just haven’t been feelin’ it either. Maybe it’s the realization that summer’s almost over. We’ve lost over an hour of daylight in the last month. I love those long summer evenings when the sun is out until 10 o’clock. Now that that they’re so quickly fading away, I feel like I have to squeeze every last drop out of what’s left of the sunshine and warm days. Remember the summers of your childhood that seemed to go on and on? If only time moved as slowly at 33 as it did at 13.
Or maybe it’s too many late nights watching the Olympics. I could not go to bed last night until I was sure Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh won the gold. And am I the only one who couldn’t hold back the tears a few nights ago when they cut away to Shawn Johnson’s mother sobbing in the stands after her little girl finally won a gold medal? I actually had to get up and get a Kleenex.
David’s been watching the Olympics with us. This is the first that’s he’s been old enough to really watch. He’s been especially fascinated with swimming and gymnastics.
“Who is that?”
“Michael Phelps.”
“What’s he doing?”
“Swimming in a race.”
“He goes fast.”
“He goes very fast. He’s won a lot of gold medals, because he’s the best swimmer in the world.”
“When I grow up I want to swim fast, and win a gold medal. But I have to bring my floatie.”
Watching women’s swimming David noticed that some of the swimmers we’re, well, a little more athletically built than others.
“Mommie are they all girls?”
“Yes, it’s women’s swimming.”
“Is that a girl?”
“Yes.”
“And that’s a girl?”
“Yes.”
“No. That’s a man.”
“No honey, they’re all girls.”
“She doesn’t look like a girl.”
“Well, it’s hard to tell when their hair is under those caps.”
“No. She just doesn’t look like a girl.”
Later during the same event:
“Mommie do you want to go there?”
“Yes, I think it would be fun to go to China.”
“No there. Do you want to go there.”
“Do you mean swim in that big pool?”
“Yeah.”
“That would be fun wouldn’t it?”
“You could swim with those other girls, and Daddy and I could watch you.”
“I’m pretty sure I’d break a world record. Slowest ever Olympic time in the women’s 200 meters.”
Then after watching the gymnastics vaulting competition David announced, “I have to learn how to do five somersaults and land on my feet!”
The next day he carried his old crib mattress out to the living room and placed it in front of the ottoman. He started doing flips off the ottoman on to the mattress.
“What on earth are you doing? You’re going to break your neck!”
“No I won’t. I have a mattress.”
“You could still get hurt.”
“But I have to practice landing on my feet.”
Well, next week launches us full swing into election season with the Democratic Convention starting on Monday, followed up by the Republican convention the week after. David should give me plenty to blog about after he watches some of that.
Remember this conversation about Barack Obama? David still doesn’t believe me.
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I had cherries and whipping cream left over from last week’s Summer Chiller. I’ve made ice cream a few times this summer, and I thought I’d try making it with cherries. Nothing goes better with cherries than chocolate, so I threw in some milk chocolate chips. I actually cobbled together a few different recipes to come up with this. I also used a no-cook, eggless ice cream base this time.
Chunky Chocolate Cherry Ice Cream
2 cups milk
1 cup sugar
2 cups whipping cream or half and half
2 tbs almond extract
1 cup pitted and chopped cherries macerated in 1/4 cup of sugar
1 cup of milk chocolate chips
Pit and chop cherries. Stir in 1/4 a cup of sugar. Refrigerate for one hour.
Combine milk, cream, sugar and almond extract. Stir briskly, about two minutes until sugar is dissolved. (Undissolved sugar crystals may be a cause of large ice crystal formation.) Pour into a 1-gallon ice cream freezer, and freeze according to manufacturer’s directions. When ice cream is partially frozen, add in cherry mixture and chocolate chips. (Again make sure all the sugar in the cherry mixture is dissolved.) Finish freezing. Put in a covered container and place in the freezer several hours to harden.
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Mommie: “Whew! It sure is hot out here today!”
David: “Yeah, it’s really human.”
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After a chilly spring and a cool early summer, the heat has finally kicked into high gear around here. It’s been 90 degrees and humid for days now. That’s pretty hot for us Yankees up in Michigan.
That means I’ve been spending a lot of time in the pool with my son, and a lot of time in my bathing suit.
Bathing. Suit. Season.
Three words that strike fear into the heart of many a woman be they short, tall, fat, thin, pear or twig shaped.
Oh, the horrors of searching for that perfect swimsuit.
It’s torture to try on suit after suit in a tiny little dressing room all the while scrutinizing yourself in one those evil three-way mirrors under fluorescent lights that create cellulite you don’t even have. You’ve got to find the right color, the right support, the right coverage.
For a few year now I’ve coveted one of those mix & match tankinis from Lands’ End. With so many different styles of tops and bottoms to choose from and a big range of sizes, they’ve got something for just about anyone. In fact, you can choose the customize option and even get a top in your exact bra size, with or with out under wire.
Alas, I can not justify spending over a hundred dollars on something that I’m just going to hang around my backyard in. But I also don’t want to scare the neighbors, and we do make a few trips to Lake Michigan each year.
In August.
When it finally thaws.
Oh, if you have not had the pleasure of swimming in one of our country’s beautiful Great Lakes, baby, you don’t know what cold is!
If it were up to me, I’d wear this to the beach.
I personally think the Victorians had it goin’ on when it came to swimwear. Modest, full-coverage, nothing to keep tugging back into place. It is the mystery of what is not reveled…
Unfortunately it’s the 21st century now.
I never was comfortable in a skimpy swimsuit. There were a few years back in my younger days I could have rocked a bikini, but most of the time I stuck to the one piece. And then along came the tankini. If that’s not one of the best advances in women’s fashion in recent history, I don’t know what is.
But since hitting, and passing, 30 and carrying a child for nine months my hang ups about exposing my figure to the world in a swimsuit have exponentially increased.
Well, I unexpectedly hit the swimsuit jackpot this season at, of all places, WalMart.
O.K. First of all, I know it’s a “mom” bathing suit, but I’m a mom. Get over it. I don’t wear mom jeans, so just let me have this.
I love this suit, which I think is technically called a swim dress. It’s so flattering, if I do say so myself, that I actually get excited about putting it on. I considered taking a picture of me modeling it, but decided that no matter how good it looks, a photo of me in a swimming suit just does not need to be out there on the World Wide Web.
The V-neck accentuates one of my better physical attributes while the a-line cut and princess waist causes it to fall away from the rest of my body, smoothing and slimming everything. The length is just right to hide my thighs, my biggest hang-up of all. In fact, it fits so well, I wish it were a real dress. I’d wear out everywhere.
I also happen to like the sassy little animal print. Not sure what it is. Giraffe, maybe? I don’t think that animal actually exists anywhere on earth, but it’s cute. And it’s brown, the new black, don’t you know?
Lake Michigan, here I come!
Just as soon as the glacier melts.
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Girls Just Wanna Win Swag
Girls Just Wanna Win Swag is a new weekly giveaway I’m starting next week in conjunction with Girl Talk. Each week I’m going to feature a different woman-owned small business that offers products for the “girl” in you. You’ll have the chance to win some swag from the featured company.
I’m really excited to help promote women in small business, and introduce you to some wonderful companies and products you may not know about. I’ve got several weeks of great giveaways lined up already. You don’t want to miss it. So come back next week for our usual chit-chat, and some great swag.
Have a women-owned business you’d like featured in a Swag givewaway? Fill out the contact form in my sidebar and let me know.
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Wordless WednesdayCool air thick and still
As twilight fades Fireflies dance
To the Crickets’ Song
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