Wednesday, July 27th, 2005

An amazingly gorgeous day

The girls and I had a wonderful day of shopping, lunch, and summer play. It was fab. We are going to the ocean on Monday, and needed supplies. (I have seriously wanted to go to the ocean for five years. No joke. Five years!! Haven’t made it yet. But on Monday, we’re going. It’s about a 2 1/2 hour drive). We needed beach towels.

image

We needed sand toys. I needed a swimsuit that fits and cool beach clothes. We needed a Slip-and-Slide.

image

What? No wait, that’s not for the ocean trip, but we needed one.

Side note- Until yesterday, I had never actually seen a Slip-and-Slide. I’d heard of them of course, but had never used or seen one. Now I have both used and OWN one! It is very great!

We ate lunch in the mall. We had tacos. I got some great clothes that were all 50% off, because I’m late at everything, (finding sand toys was difficult, everyone is sold out), and they took an additional $25 off of my total because they’re nice!

Then we came home and played in the sun for over 2 hours ’til I had to make dinner. When Nate came home, he brought a truly lovely package in from the mailbox, containing a lot of candy and these…

image

Isn’t that little bag the cutest? I LOVE the colors! Kathy in Oregon, one of our Finchy Gifty winners, sent a thank you package. She said she likes to recycle and felt thrift store sweaters, and turn them into new things! I think the purse is great, and looks to be the right size to house a sock-in-progress. Thank you so much, Kathy!

An apology from Laura-

I am very sorry to those of you who are local and have not yet heard about Stitch ‘n Pitch. Tonight, the Seattle Mariners are hosting a knitting night, where they offer cheap seats and t-shirts to knitting baseball fans. There are going to be booths, and “experts on hand”, sounds like a grand time. Nate and I are going, and it didn’t occur to me to tell anyone or post about it until yesterday. I got my tickets and forgot about it. So sorry! I just assume that everyone reads Jessica’s site, which is where I first heard about it, and I have since found out that not everyone does. Well, you should. She’s hilarious. I want to be her friend.

Right, so we’re off to the baseball game tonight, but not before I take the kids to the beach to try out their new sand toys. We may not have an ocean within easy reach, but there are lakes everywhere, and we have the Puget Sound right close. Off to the beach we go!