I found the most perfect end table EVER this morning online! I want one so badly, that it’s just killing me! And the whole thing is my friend, Julie’s, fault! Gosh! She is apparently nesting in honor of our friend, Eve, who’s due to give birth quite soon, because, she is cleaning out her whole entire house! (I sure hope she’s coming to Alabama next!)

Julie is going from room to room in her house, cleaning, organizing, and getting rid of stuff! She even had some child laborers helping her! Crazy, isn’t it? They don’t seem to upset by it, though - they rather look like they’re having fun, I’d say! Well, aside from all the sneezing, that is! I’m getting off the subject, though, aren’t I?

She is rearranging her house in this process and she will be left with this one empty spot next to her dining table that she would like to make into a comfortable reading corner. There’s nothing I like more than comfortable reading corners! I’ve dreamed of one for a long, long time. I almost had one in one of the houses we lived in - and it was going to be in my master bedroom! That was going to be so cool! We never got around to the remodel, though, before we moved out of that house. So Julie posted some pictures of the area she has to work with and asked for advice on what to put there. Upon reading her post, I went looking online for this certain kind of chair that my brother used to have that I thought would be perfect for her spot! I did find the chair ….only trouble is, I also found the most adorable table!! And if I know Julie, she was drooling when she saw it, too! Here, let me just show you….
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I can’t believe it is already time to send my little monsters sweethearts off to school again! Summertime goes so fast nowadays. And really, that’s true - because, they barely get more than two months, the poor little buggers! It doesn’t seem like that long ago that I was posting that they were going back to school last year! Crazy how time flies, isn’t it?

Our schools around here started on the 7th, so the kids have had six days of school so far. Back home, though, they don’t even start until August 25th! And I think some of my friends up north say they start even later than that. They stay in school for some of June and we are usually out by then.

My daughter is in sixth grade and the ‘top of the school’! That is such a fun year! And it is also the year that the kids start switching classes to get ready for high school. So she has six or seven different teachers. She really likes all of her teachers so far, but, she absolutely loves her homeroom teacher! I do, too - she is the reading teacher - so you know I like her! She is really nice, though - it’s not just that she’s the reading teacher - she is very spunky!
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