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Bear with me again. My reason for starting a blog was so that my family up in good ole Virginny and North Carolina can see parts of our life down here in southwest Florida--thus the title of my blog. So, please bear with me as I share some pictures of our weekend.

Shewwww, today was a long day. A perfectly LOVELY Florida day,but long! The children's school had a family fun/carnival type day to raise some money for their building project. Danny spent the day manning the bounce house, while I took my turn working my shifts at Maddie and Danny boy's class booths and totted around our youngest 3 to different games.

Below are some pictures of our day. Oh boy, my pups (feet) are bark'in!

Oh, and I also included some picture of Baby Jane, just because you asked Dolly!

Before I had children I would really be irritated when I heard someone say to me, "I'm sorry, but I am so busy!" I would think, "whatever, just get your priorities right, get off the sofa, turn the TV off and you'll be fine." (I know, that is blunt--sorry, it's me!)

Sadly, now-a-days, I find myself telling MYSELF, "I'm sorry, but I am so busy!" There are so many things I want to get accomplished each day, and I never get to them.

So please forgive me my sweet blogg'in friends. I have really lacked surf'in the blogs lately! I read them but sometimes I cannot comment because , "I'm sorry, but I am so busy!"

Today, I'm a copy cat. I just saw this cute idea on a blog friends blog, which led me to another blog. I decided why not!?? I hope I'm doing it right.

Please pick the one that you prefer (it doesn't necessarily have to be what you have just what you would prefer):

1. jog or walk: Walk
2. coffee or tea: Sweet tea
3. pepsi or coca cola: Coke--Actually Cherry Coke
4. flats or heels:Heels, although I hardly get to wear them
5. fries or onion rings: Rings with ketchup
6. cats or dogs: Definitely Dogs
7. skim or whole: Skim
8. small purses or large:Small
9. van or suv: SUV
10. winter or summer: Winter
11. 1 piece bathing suit or 2: ONE--I think I came out of my moms womb wearing a one piece!
12. sit down restaurant or fast food: Sit Down without my children
13. McDonalds or Burger King: Ewwww--Burger King????
14. White Gold or Yellow: White
15. Fish or Chicken: Fish
16. Edward or Jacob: Edward
17. Pizza or Burger: Pizza
18. apple or orange: Apple
19. Spend or save: Spend
20. 1 story or 2 story house: 1 story now, dreaming of a 2 story!

This afternoon I received my Valentine swap gift in the mail. I got the mail on my way out the door to pick up the children from school and since I was right on schedule and since I needed to take pictures of it, I had to wait to open it until I return home.

I had to practice some delayed gratification because I had a couple of errands to run on the way home, one that included a stop at a friends house to get 3 of my children's hair cut.

I had to turn the flash off because there was too much of a glare coming off the heart and pendant. The above picture does not do this gift justice. It really is a beautiful gift. Tomorrow I am going out to look for a new necklace for my new pendant. Shoot, I just may need to go buy and new outfit too!

And, by the way, LOVE the cute little note card that came with my gift. On the front of the card is the Eiffel Tower and it says "je t'aime" across the front, which means, "I love you" in French.

Just a few minutes ago, I called Danny, my love, on his way to work to discuss a few things our son Dan Dan had forgotten to take to school today--one of them being his lunch. Anyway during the course of our friendly phone banter, we got around to talking about ice cream. Here was the dialog that led up to this post.

My love: "If I stayed at home all day, like you, the ice cream would be gone."
Me: "Well, it is surprising that I stay at home all day and don't eat all that good stuff like that. I don't know why I don't, I just don't."
My Love: "What do you eat? Yeah, what do you do all day? What DO you do?"


Well, My Love, click here and here for a little lovely reminder of what I DO all day.

And, My Love, thank you for all your hard work that allows me to stay home all day and take care of our family! I love you! It's just you and me! LOVE IT!

Yesterday, Maddie's Valentine Swap gift from Inger arrived. Let me tell you this was one heavy box! Maddie was at church (we have Saturday evening services) with her Daddy so I called him to have him tell Maddie she had a special package waiting for her when she came home. I wish you all could truly see the bigness of Inger's heart. She is one of the most giving people I have ever known. I have experienced her kindness several times and I continue to be amazed at her thoughtfulness. One day I hope to meet her at a blog union!
This box was PACKED full of things. I think Inger exceeded the $$$ limit! The first thing Maddie opened was a very sweet note from Inger. Along with Inger's incredible thoughtfulness, she also has the gift of encouragement. The note she wrote Maddie couldn't have been any sweeter and perfectly written for my Maddie girl!




AND, Inger again was kind to ME and sent me a cute, cute, cute "Be Mine" banner. I don't have a mantle so I put it on the hutch by the front door so we can see it as we come in and out! I LOVE it Inger. Thank you so much!


I put Dan Dan, Harry Jack, and Margaux to bed last night at 8:00. Around 9:45 I came out to the kitchen to get some water and there she was...MARGAUX, on the counter eating Valentine candy. She had a mouth FULL of candy hearts, and if you look closely at the above picture, you can see she had half of a red jelly heart. Too funny! I had to take a picture.