1) SBO executive board meetings for 25-26 school year have begun. I was elected Vice President of Events this year and I’m looking forward to helping, and also to the change from fundraising. 
2) we finally finished the Prestige. What a great movie. I don’t know how it missed our radar when it was released in the early 2000s. Loved it. Ryan came over and watched it with Aaron and I and the three of us were still unpacking the plot for an hour after. I can’t wait to discuss it with Corbin. He’s been waiting for me to finish it. Also, Corbin has only been gone 5 days to fsy but I miss him SO much!
3) I had a little date with Soren when I picked him up from XC practice. He got in the car and said, “I just did almost 4 miles of speed work and all I want is to go use my Dons gift card on a plate of hotcakes and a shake. Ask and ye shall receive my son. We sat in the car abc talked and Soren ate his hot cakes one at a time with the rest on a plate on my lap. The last hot cake had a surprise hollowed out center. I poked two eyes in it, we laughed at his smiling breakfastc and we decided that hotcakes are now to be called “happy cakes”. Also, it should be noted that I offered to buy him a shake, but true to stereotypical Dons fashion, the ice cream machine was broken. 😂
4) king of summer
5) queen of summer. Quincy is having the best time at Lake Powell this week. She learned how to wake surf and is shredding it! Her photos of the red rocks and blue sky and water are beautiful. I miss her! I love hearing her stories when she FaceTimes and can’t wait to get the full download when she comes home in a week. She’s loving summer. Look at her go!
6) we’ve been hitting the pools and tried out Melvin Ford for with Geddes and Bakers this week. The kids loved the floating obstacle course and diving board. An amazing thing happened: I went to the pool and didn’t get my hair wet. Ladies and Gents, the day has arrived! I seriously could have sat in the shade with a book while the kids swam if I had wanted. Of course I did* get in the pool bc I wanted to play with the kids, but I could* have just sat out if I had wanted to. What a life. I’ve dreamed of this day for a long time. Everyone is a competent swimmer and it’s a sigh of relief.
Zara, Bear, and Hans
7) what’s better than a random rainy day inthe middle of a hot summer week? Books, movies, naps, pajamas, and blanket forts all day long.
8) one of Quincy’s pals stopped by. I gave him a hair cut and he hung around for a bit after to eat cheesecake and chase the chickens with the little guys. Nice catch, Cap! He posted a pic with Sunny on his insta and Sloane believes we are famous now. There is no better compliment than someone saying they feel welcome in my home.
9) [turtle] Ryan has been returned from our pet sitter and he looks happy to be here.
10) we had a visit with Mattie and Oliver. Lily and Lochlan are in Utah so Sloane did a “secret” service and cleaned their room. Nice work, Sloane!
11) know what is NOT welcome in my home? Pests. A vacant house for 10 days means we came home to fruit flies that are withstanding every store bought and well tested home trap. Today I gutted the pantry abd triple mopped the kitchen abd wiped down all the counters. Where are they coming from?!
14) I went to the cemetery with Kasey. I hadn’t been yet and it was a good place to ponder some situations and ask, “what would Chris do?”
2) we finally finished the Prestige. What a great movie. I don’t know how it missed our radar when it was released in the early 2000s. Loved it. Ryan came over and watched it with Aaron and I and the three of us were still unpacking the plot for an hour after. I can’t wait to discuss it with Corbin. He’s been waiting for me to finish it. Also, Corbin has only been gone 5 days to fsy but I miss him SO much!
3) I had a little date with Soren when I picked him up from XC practice. He got in the car and said, “I just did almost 4 miles of speed work and all I want is to go use my Dons gift card on a plate of hotcakes and a shake. Ask and ye shall receive my son. We sat in the car abc talked and Soren ate his hot cakes one at a time with the rest on a plate on my lap. The last hot cake had a surprise hollowed out center. I poked two eyes in it, we laughed at his smiling breakfastc and we decided that hotcakes are now to be called “happy cakes”. Also, it should be noted that I offered to buy him a shake, but true to stereotypical Dons fashion, the ice cream machine was broken. 😂
4) king of summer
5) queen of summer. Quincy is having the best time at Lake Powell this week. She learned how to wake surf and is shredding it! Her photos of the red rocks and blue sky and water are beautiful. I miss her! I love hearing her stories when she FaceTimes and can’t wait to get the full download when she comes home in a week. She’s loving summer. Look at her go!
6) we’ve been hitting the pools and tried out Melvin Ford for with Geddes and Bakers this week. The kids loved the floating obstacle course and diving board. An amazing thing happened: I went to the pool and didn’t get my hair wet. Ladies and Gents, the day has arrived! I seriously could have sat in the shade with a book while the kids swam if I had wanted. Of course I did* get in the pool bc I wanted to play with the kids, but I could* have just sat out if I had wanted to. What a life. I’ve dreamed of this day for a long time. Everyone is a competent swimmer and it’s a sigh of relief.
Zara, Bear, and Hans
7) what’s better than a random rainy day inthe middle of a hot summer week? Books, movies, naps, pajamas, and blanket forts all day long.
8) one of Quincy’s pals stopped by. I gave him a hair cut and he hung around for a bit after to eat cheesecake and chase the chickens with the little guys. Nice catch, Cap! He posted a pic with Sunny on his insta and Sloane believes we are famous now. There is no better compliment than someone saying they feel welcome in my home.
9) [turtle] Ryan has been returned from our pet sitter and he looks happy to be here.
10) we had a visit with Mattie and Oliver. Lily and Lochlan are in Utah so Sloane did a “secret” service and cleaned their room. Nice work, Sloane!
11) know what is NOT welcome in my home? Pests. A vacant house for 10 days means we came home to fruit flies that are withstanding every store bought and well tested home trap. Today I gutted the pantry abd triple mopped the kitchen abd wiped down all the counters. Where are they coming from?!
And it gets worse, a MOUSE scurried across the kitchen. I caught it with a trap just hours later. Soren named it Rogue One bc he is convinced there are no others. I know this is part of forest living, and it probably is an isolated occurrence, since I keep a pretty tidy home…but my eye will twitch and I’ll wear shoes and socks indoors and be panic cleaning and setting a million traps until we can be sure. I caught myself a Bear on a glue trap this morning. 😂😂 he clomped into my room crying with a sock stuck to glue. Never a dull moment around here. I told Bear all I gave to do is set up glue traps when he grows up and tries yo move away and be a man. I might just stick him here with me forever and ever 😍
12) Aaron and I celebrated our 24th Wedding Anniversary on the 7th. We went to dinner at Fred’s Hickory and went to a movie, which we only do about once a year. We saw F1 and loved it! The soundtrack is fire, as well. I love Aaron. I love the life we’ve built together. Now that I have 2 adult children who date, I find myself praying they’ll meet someone just like Aaron. He is such a good husband and I know our 24 years of success is because I married so well. We make a good team, he and I. Our life together overflows with laughter, messes, good food, people, music, adventures, and laundry. There is so much love layered within all of it.
12) Aaron and I celebrated our 24th Wedding Anniversary on the 7th. We went to dinner at Fred’s Hickory and went to a movie, which we only do about once a year. We saw F1 and loved it! The soundtrack is fire, as well. I love Aaron. I love the life we’ve built together. Now that I have 2 adult children who date, I find myself praying they’ll meet someone just like Aaron. He is such a good husband and I know our 24 years of success is because I married so well. We make a good team, he and I. Our life together overflows with laughter, messes, good food, people, music, adventures, and laundry. There is so much love layered within all of it.
13) need more days like this with her. I love having Reese home. She stayed in Utah to go to Bear lake and I miss her. Not ready to share her yet. Having adult children as my best friends is a gift I don’t take for granted. I’m trying to prepare myself to be stoic in a couple months when they’re away at college and I’m left here feeling absolutely gutted. I know it’s best for them, though, and when we ARE together, look at the happiness I can look forward to. I am a greatly blessed mother to have this little dolly in my life. Love her to Pieces.
14) I went to the cemetery with Kasey. I hadn’t been yet and it was a good place to ponder some situations and ask, “what would Chris do?”
I’m not sure if it’s good or bad that the answer is different than the answer to, “what would Meg do?”
It was good to walk around with Kasey, and I know Jill appreciates any time friends stop by to re/fluff flowers and brush the grass clippings off of Nick’s plot. Kasey and I talked about all the things, as besties do. We passed the Isabel’s family plot and you know you’ve lived somewhere a long time when you can find multiple friends in the cemetery. I’m so grateful for Arkansas. I love my life here and all the people in it who make me rich. It’s good to be Meg Willardson.
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