Better Stuff!

Holy cow! It's been a week since I posted. I wish I had some good excuses but really we've just been living life and enjoying C's last few days before school starts. Actually, that's a pretty good excuse. Spending time as a family is always a good excuse.

My parents visited this past weekend. Which was swell! Really, it was the perfect weekend. Topping it all off was that Husband and I bought a new mattress!!

Husband not-so-lovingly refers to our old mattress as a baguette pan. He's not wrong. But it does make me laugh. When we were first married we had a double bed. When I was pregnant with C, I got fed up and bought a bed, with a frame, box spring and mattress for like $400. So a super nice one then. I kid. We've hated it for years but there's always something more pressing right? Anyway, we bought a new one and it was delivered this morning!

It doesn't look like much, but that is a new mattress and new pillows. I am looking forward to rest time!

We also seal coated the driveway over the weekend. I've wanted to do that for a long time now and it looks so much better!! So if you factor in our new roof, August has been pretty good to us and making our house feel better. And also curb appeal.

Most of the houses in our neighborhood have concrete driveways/parking areas. But ours is asphalt. The other asphalt in this picture is the alley. Our asphalt was rough and hadn't been seal coated potentially forever but definitely in a long time. Luckily it doesn't suffer the same treatment as the alley so no major cracks or problems. 

The schools around here started this week. Our school gives a little buffer between K-8 starting and the preschool so C's first day is Thursday. We unpacked his backpack last week. We picked up his school bag from the embroider yesterday.

Several area preschools give the kids canvas tote bags to decorate instead of using backpacks. I admit to being a little disappointed by that fact but I am over it. We could decorate however we wanted to, and for me that meant, taking it to be embroidered. Puffy paint is not my forte.

So we are ready. He has a new first day of school shirt. Because it's hot here still and he isn't going to wear fall/winter stuff yet, but the first day calls for something new. So a new shirt it is. He is very excited about it and preschool in general.

That's what's going on in our world.