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- Melody 1 Comment

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Since my sister was throwing her birthday party outside in our backyard, our parents bought a fancy new firepit. It poured rain the night of her party but we’ve been out by it several times since then making very good use of it.

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There’s something magical about sitting around a fire for hours. It’s like time stops and electricity doesn’t matter and makes your body tired at normal hours. After a night around a fire I’m ready to hit the sack smelling like smoke. I love camping. You can find me out by this all spring and summer. Bring the ‘mallows.

 

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Spring Flowers

- Melody

I love winter. I’ll be the first one to throw on a sweater and some boots and sit outside in the snow. I could live in the north with no problem. Cold? Bring it on. Ice? Yes, please.

Spring? Yeah… okay.

I love the 70 degree weather as much as the next gal, but winter is my home. However, when you throw me in any home and garden department in any hardware store I’ll spend all day in there. Flowers. Succulents. Fountains. My old lady self is in heaven. I secretly want a huge garden when I buy my first house. (Holler for making huge goals.)

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Lowe’s is always on point in their garden department. It’s so photogenic! The smell too.. watery and fertilizery. Yummy.

 

Spend a Saturday afternoon in there with your significant other and try not to fall in love with everything. Best Saturday you’ll ever spend.

 

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Ina Garten’s Chocolate Globs

- Melody

Winter took our little town by surprise a few weeks ago and threw sleet and snow all over the ground. A huge pink glob was hovering over us on the radar with no end in sight. Our power was fine all afternoon and then wham! Shut off. It surged a couple times before giving up completely.

After some panics and talk of Slenderman we lit all the candles we had and then sat around saying now what? Mom had the brilliant cliche idea of pulling out a board game. Specifically Wahoo. We’ve played this game for as long as I can remember and it’s the first board we pull out on vacations. If you’re not familiar, each player takes four colored marbles and rolls dice to move around the board to eventually get them all “home.” Rudy won, surprisingly.

Thank the Lord I had the foresight to bake cookies before all of that calamity.

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These… are so delicious. We skipped the nuts in this recipe and just used what we had. It’s a very forgiving recipe and you can throw whatever you want in it! Make them. Now.

Recipe here!

 

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Ice Ice Everywhere

- Melody 2 Comments

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Ice covered every single inch of our neighborhood. All leaves, branches, blades of grss, bird baths… it was beautiful even though it was dangerous. The trees were weighed down and bent. The shell of ice crunched hard underneath my feet and Pepper’s paws. She loved it. Running and crunching and eating the ice. Finding her rope toys under the ice was like a game for her. I miss it.

 

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Ice Storm

- Melody 1 Comment

Texas had it’s fair share of storms and ice in February and March. We narrowly missed the first one and were so.close. to having the daycare close. Alas. But nay! March rolled around and kicked Texas in its hot rear and slammed us with ice on a day nobody expected it. We closed Monday and almost closed Tuesday. Our area was shut out of power for three or four days. Fun times! It actually was. Being forced to unplug from literally all power was a nice and unexpected refresher. I was a little bummed when we were invited to stay with my aunt until our power came back on. I say a little bummed because I finally got to take a hot shower again. 🙂

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Everything was so cold that night and the next day but having the day off unexpectedly made everything a little more magical. We made toaster strudel on our camping stove, had a fire going all day, grabbed all the blankets and napped on the couch.

 

Snow days are the best.

 

 

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We Have A Cat

- Melody 2 Comments

I talk about Pepper so much I don’t think you guys know that we have a cat! Three, actually. The two indoor cats are Mycroft and Ike. Yes, Mycroft from Sherlock. (Our favorite show. Have you seen it?! We should talk!) Our girl cat, Penny, lives outside and is the sweetest cat you’ll ever meet. She has her own little warm box on the porch swing that she snuggles up in during the weather.

When Pepper runs out the front door she also likes to do this:

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Oh wait! Here she comes back down.

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When she’s sure it’s safe again, she’ll come back down and invade any outfit pictures I’m taking. 🙂 If you’re ever in the neighborhood see if you can spot her roaming around other people’s porches. She’s easy to spot.