tomorrow

To the tune of "Tomorrow" from Annie:

The sun'll come out 

Tomorrow 

Bet your bottom tuition dollar 

That tomorrow 

There'll be sun! 

Just thinkin' about
Tomorrow
Clear away the boxes
And the laundry

'Til there's none!

Tomorrow! Tomorrow!
I love ya Tomorrow!
You're always
A day

A-way!

Tomorrow's our big day -- MOVING DAY! The Turkey is busily packing and organizing. I help from time to time (more like giving direction) and then I quietly exit and leave him to his stuff for a while. I usually come back with folded laundry or a cold beverage so he'll think I'm the coolest mom ever. Evah!

Tomorrow at this time I will be in this house by myself. Unless he wants me to take him out to dinner or something. ;-)

in five days

The turkey flies the coop in five days. 

In five days my only turkey will be moving in to his apartment on campus.

I will have an empty nest in five days.

Five days, y'all! FIVE. Count 'em -- one, two, three, four, five!

That's right -- this coop will be devoid of daily teenage messifying in a scant five days. (Messifying? Is that a word? Yoobetcha! In bloggerland "messifying" is definitely a word!) We are busy with packing and organizing and figuring out what gets moved and what doesn't, last-minute discussions on subjects like monthly budgets and how to plan meals for the week, debates on whether or not we pack things like toilet paper and cleaning supplies or buy them there, and the all-important discussion of just how to pack everything so as to allow for the most efficient move-in process.

Exciting, eh?

Five days.

I'll be living solo again ... in five days.

The turkey will start on a grand adventure ... in five days.

It's going to be a blast watching him become an independent adult.

The adventure begins in five days! 

ceramic goodies

I know I've been absent for a while. I know you are unaware of my persistent thoughts about coming back to the blog this fall. (For reals, y'all!) I know you might have missed me. And I know I've been MIA way too long. But now I'm Back!

What's that song? "but now I'm back ... from outer space ... and you...." la la la la la.  (I just looked it up. Donna Summer. I will survive. Truly.)

Anywho. In my summer travels this year I once again searched high and low for interesting and unique coffee mugs. They weren't especially prominent in the various locales where I visited but then I ran across this on Pinterest:

http://pinterest.com/maxamara/beautiful-pottery/

Ohmygoodnessgracious. There are some gorgeous pieces in this mix. Let me know your favorites.

And let me know if you find any places with unique and interesting hand crafted mugs!

senioritis

We had the Turkey's senior pictures done earlier this month. The prints came back a couple weeks later and were overexposed. So we took 'em back and did a quick redeux. Here's what we had to choose from: 

Check out the laughter in the smallest picture on the right. Hee hee! And the sepia tone on the right we called the "Lincoln pose." 

But the one we chose to have printed was ... 

Drum roll, please. 

dumdumdumdumdumdumdududududumdumddadaumdadumdadumdadumdadum

Ta da! 

That's my Turkey!

My SENIOR Turkey. ;-)

qr goodness

 

Be impressed?

Be very impressed! :-)

the littlest burrito

Call him a little burrito. Or maybe an empanada. 

Either way he's delectably cute and yummy. 

Yummy for snuggles ... 

and that's what I finally got to do with the cutest new nephew in the family!

*happy dances!*

(Sorry for the quirky angle on this one.)

(I was trying to get those fists and feet in the photo and got a little crazy.)  

(And it was also the cell phone camera in low light which doesn't help.) 

(But you get the idea, right?)

Meet Mateo! You saw his cute toes a few posts ago. 

He slept through most of his first real introduction to me, 

Crazy Aunt Jess, 

but he did stretch and yawn and every once in a while. 

Until next time, little Mateo!

nom nom nola

I wanted to get to this cute little restaurant in NOLA last week but their hours didn't mesh with my availability. A few conference folks found their way there and said it was great, although none mentioned a bacon sundae. Check it out: 

Our “Notorious” Bacon Sundae
Pecan praline ice cream with a creamy bacon caramel sauce 
carrying a bit of both Pink Himalayan & Black Lava Salts, 
& micro-planed Nueske’s Applewood Bacon, 
layered with whipped cream, of course! $8

Forget the bread pudding with warm rum sauce and get me a bacon sundae pronto!

Oh wow. Click here, download the menus and prepare to be amazed. There are so many creative combinations and taste sensations just waiting to explode on the palate.

Green Goddess is definitely going on The List for the next visit to Nawlins. :-)