Bullet Points of Life: My vacation highlight reel
Vacation is over on Tuesday, I’ll be winging back to the Windy City and resuming life per normal… sigh… Here are the highlights of my trip:
- KNITTING! Last week the weather was pretty crappy, so we didn’t get to do much outside stuff - so, while stuck indoors, I managed to knock out four pieces of my Christmas knitting. I’m super far ahead of the gift making game now and it’s only July, yay!
- COOKING! One of the biggest joys of coming home to hang with the fam is that I can cook big meals. Being a singleton, myself, I rarely have cause to cook -say- a whole chicken just for myself. So a couple of times during this vacation I’ve made desert (berries and homemade whipped cream,) side dishes (new potatoes w/rosemary and olive oil, spinach salad, cooked spinach with butter/lemon/bacon) AND one night I coordinated the roasting of two lemon and rosemary chickens and all the fixin’s… I <3 to cook, so this was an extremely fun evening for me.
- KAYAKING! The first afternoon after I arrived at my parent’s house, my Mom and I went kayaking - it was fun and very relaxing.
- FEEDING DUCKS! My parents seem to have collected this family of a Mama Duck, a Daddy Duck and 10 duck babies. They show up by our pier or in the backyard at least once per day to be fed stale bread. I suspend my hatred of birds for this Duck Family, b/c they’re so damn cute!
- HANGING WITH FRIENDS! Saw a couple of people on this trip — most importantly, I got to spend some QT with my bffs Tony and Kendra and their two year old daughter (aka, my Minion.) No matter where I go in life, it’s completely reassuring to me that T&K are consistently among the dearest, most awesome friends I have. There are very few people who are in that category. And, the Minion cracks me up - she’s a little spitfire.
- HANGING WITH THE FAM! Week one and my Aunt B, cousin Annie and her friend Alee were at the lake with us. Week two and my sis-in-law, my nephews and my Grandma are here. Plus the extended fam came down for a pre-Fourth of July party on Saturday. I’m soakin’ in the family goodness.
- QT WITH DA MOMMASHIP! If you haven’t figured it out, I’m a Momma’s girl… I love my Mommie (because she’s just plain old awesomesauce) and I don’t get to see her enough. So having two weeks to hang with my Mom has done me well in terms of my own mental health.
- A SECRET I CANNOT REVEAL RIGHT NOW! It’s seriously cool stuff, over vacation the details of this secret I cannot reveal became far more solidified than they were before I left on vacation. I’m STUPIDLY excited about this secret, I cannot wait to tell people what it is. :)
- THE KENNEDYS! I watched the Kennedy’s mini-series. It was good and educational.
