Happy Sunday morning, Girls! Hope this finds you all doing well. I am working on my second cup of coffee and feeling the effects of a very long day yesterday. Nine cakes and 120 cupcakes! It was great having both girls to help me :) Although, poor MB was dragging around a little slowly because she slipped on a patch of water and bruised both knees at the Firehouse Friday afternoon while doing a birthday square dance with Jessie Hayes...didn't even try to figure that one out. Needless to say, she has milked sympathy from everyone about her poor little knees and I think Jessie may have even bought her " responsibility ice cream " lol.
Last night, we let her have a few friends over and it was so hard to stay out of the den and give her privacy...lol..I wanted to hang with them, but I think that would have been "uncool" so I put Jess and Marlee up to it. They all had 9:00 curfews ( which was wonderful LOL ) and I am realizing that once again, I will probably hear the sound of teenagers piled up in my den quite often...it has been about 5 years since that has happened here and it's just so hard to imagine MB having obnoxious boys over here watching TV that you have to give the "Maude" eye to. ( And yes, I did give him the Maude eyes and Ringo gave him the "Guido" eyes...LOL...and so, maybe he won't come back again...He didn't even get Jessi's approval, so that says alot. Ugh! I wish we could do the old goat swap thing and choose our children's dating partners/mates...anyways, MB can't "date" until she is 16 so we have a little while longer to teach her what to look for in a guy and what to run from...lol.

She had a wonderful birthday, except for the bruised knees...lol...she and Jess and I went to the beach....it was beautiful! I don't think I have ever seen the water so clear that you could actually see your toes and your shadow on the bottom. It was funny listening to Jess squeal every time a minnow would run into her or she stepped on a flounder....LOL....I hope we can go back again soon before the Summer is over.
I am hoping Summer will be over soon! I am so ready for pumpkins and cool weather! I have been hearing the "goozlebugs" Gypsy! I love that sound! It means that soon it will be here! And it's funny, that that noise can also give me butterflies in the stomach still, because I always put that with school starting back soon when I was a little girl....LOL. Don't you miss the days of school supply and new clothes shopping and laying out your "first day back" outfit? And how we nearly passed out from heat stroke because we had no air conditioning and the new outfit was usually jeans and a long sleeved shirt? LOL I registered MB for 10th Grade this week and it was just one memory after another! School is so different now. The high school kids are being assigned their own laptops to replace books and paper! Can you imagine that? I just wish I could stop having nightmares after all of these years of trying to get my locker open and literally begging Madge for the combination while wrapped in a wet towel stark naked, of course...LOL I should have that analyzed!!! LOL Do you girls have locker dreams?
Guess what, Gypsy...I signed up for a painting class at the gallery! It will be a study in, you guessed it, mermaids! ( Don't you love the sexy picture I found of us in mermaid form? LOL ) I am so excited! Ringo told me that I needed to do something that was relaxing and just for me ( I love that man! ) and so I signed up. I think it will be alot of fun...I just wish I had my two best tea party friends to come, too.
Well, I guess I better scoot for now...I have to rouse the kids up to get ready for MB's belated birthday meal...we are going to the Spot of Tea for brunch...We are all looking forward to it, but Ringo is grimacing a little over it...lol...I am not sure what he thinks will happen there...LOL

I love you both so much!
Candygirl