Banana Days

There were a couple of banana themed holidays in August. We celebrated around those holidays. See if you can spot how we celebrated "observed."  

Hint: The first day we did not celebrate with bananas. 

 

August 23 was Gene Kelly's Birthday. I wore my bow earrings and had a discussion with other choir members about Gene Kelly movies.

August 24 was National Waffle Day. I made waffles.

 

August 25 was National Banana Split Day. It was also Kiss and Make Up Day. Jeremy joined the kids in "Mom is old" jokes so he had to kiss me to make up for it. Tee Hee.

 

August 26 was Toilet Paper Day. We used toilet paper. It was also National Dog Day. 

We had hot dogs. Jr. Jr. and Lucky went to a Back to School party and brought home hot dogs and buns. 

Jet brought home some water colors from school and decided to draw a treasure map with them, including "X marks the spot". Then he asked me to follow the map with him around the house to find the X, which was made with some PVC. He started putting items around and adding them to the map. He made a banana cannon and we had to "dodge the bananas" and sneak past a tiger and later there was a cow.

Jet: Watch out for the cow. If you open the pen, then the cow will come out.

I love the creativity in my family.

 

August 27 was Banana Lovers Day. It was also Just Because Day. The kids did get to play video games and we did other things just because. 

I participated in an online book club for Hearts of Locke Hill by Krista Jensen just because... I finished the book about an hour before the book club. The audiobook came in on Libby the day before and the ebook came in the day of. When they announced the book for this book club earlier in the month, I was just listening to the book that takes place before this one, Hearts of Briarwall.

Because of that book club, I won another book! 

When You Rescued Me by Sian Ann Bessey

Mom Is Old

I have to admire how my children manage to say certain things. They are pretty clever instead of outright saying, "You're old." Sometimes they do say it, though. I'm not, by the way. 

 

 

Jet was done with his junky pizza and both Jr. and I wanted to finish it off.

Jr.: I guess you can have the pizza because you have seniority. Extreme seniority. 

He told me later, he wouldn't say it if I was actually old. 

 

 

 

 

 

At a paleontology museum-

Me: That turtle died many many many many many years before I was even born.

Jr.: An impressive feat. 

 

 

 

 

Mom (explaining about the cartoon "Jem"): It's total 80's, with the hair and the makeup. Total 80's.

Jr. Jr.: It's like you, Mom. You're in your eighties. 

 

 

 

 

 

Jr. (when noticing a bruise on my arm): Is it an old bruise?

Mom: It's not that old.

Jr.: No. Is it a bruise because you're old?

I have no idea where the bruise came from. Maybe I'm extra clumsy in my "old age." 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

School Begins

School begins. Reading during pick up and drop off times begins.

It's that time of year. You better believe I was quoting Nemo. "First day of school! First day of school!"

I remembered to get first day of school pictures (oldest to youngest because they started on different days). 

Jeremy got in on the action. 

 

Before that, I got some going to the schools to pick up things or talk to teachers (and eat hot dogs) pictures. 

We have another string player this year. We joked for years about how the oldest played violin, the next oldest the cello, and the next oldest the viola in orchestra, so the next should play bass. 

He took it to heart. Ha Ha Ha Ha. This is NOT a full sized bass (it might be 1/4 size) and it's taller than him. Ha Ha Ha Ha. I love this family.

 

Date and Second Date

One day, Jeremy and I took some time to ourselves. We got up early, had a quick breakfast, and headed up Nebo Loop to go birding for a date. We saw mostly cows. 

There was one spot we stopped right on the trail because there were birds all around us, including in the branches right above us.

The cows decided not to continue on the trail we were on and went their own way. That was nice. We didn't have to move. It was good we stopped when we did or we would have run into them. 

He had a little walk at Devil's Kitchen before heading home. 

When we got home we had second breakfast, took a nap, then had second date.

We went to see the new Spider-man movie. Spider-man: Brand New Day.

It was a lovely day with my sweetheart. 

 

Be an Angel at a BBQ

There was an end of the Summer neighborhood BBQ on August 22, Be an Angel Day. There were plenty of angels. We were all being angels at times. Some people were angels to let Jet play with them.

Jet served himself with the food. He didn't eat it all.

Angels brought a soft serve ice cream machine. Several people at our table followed my example of putting chips on our ice cream. 

My friend, Cathy, and I unintentionally wore matching opposites. She said the two of us looked like bees. We're so cute. 

She is an angel. She really is such a nice person and sets such a good example for me.

That was a successful Be an Angel Day. 

UCB Potluck

On Thursday, August 20, I went to do humanitarian work by tying quilts in the morning.

In the afternoon, Jet helped me make gingerbread cookies. Nichole and Jr. found alphabet cookie cutters and bird themed cookie cutters so we could make cookies for the annual Utah County Birders Potluck. 

Being out in nature is great to celebrate World Mosquito Day. 

It was also National Lemonade Day so we had some lemonade at the potluck and Jr. made us some mint lemonade for when we got home. 

 

Lucky: I know the C-cret ingredient.

Po-Ta-To

August 19 was National Potato Day.

We ate Slow Cooker Swedish Meatballs (from A Season of Family Meal Plans, volume 3, by Jordan Page) with rice and Bacon Ranch Potatoes (from Instant Cooking by Six Sisters' Stuff) and some cucumber from our garden. Yummmmm.