Honestly today was ridiculously low-key. We all got up late and lounged around playing with the pets, chatting and eating until about 3 o'clock. That's when we did what Amanda and I have always done well together-we shopped!
Let me just say that there are some amazing stores literally around the corner from Amanda and Greg's really cute house.
I would go every day, truly. Our first stop was a place called Hunt and Gather, a huge antique/thrift store. Max stopped me at the door and said, "Mom, don't go in there, it's creepy." It wasn't, it was FABULOUS. We rifled through shelves and boxes and stuff stacked all over the place. They had a whole 1/2 room devoted to china. I have no idea how they don't lose hundreds of plates very day-they are stacked in piles that are as tall as I am on tables and in milk crates. It is an accident waiting to happen, thankfully not by me! We had some excellent success including a little flower chandelier for Rosie's bedroom, wooden letters for the kids rooms and a few Christmas presents. I refrained from buying the bench for the mudroom, the mannequin legs, baby doll parts, stuffed deer head or stuffed skunk.
Doesn't Chris look happy with our purchases? He did an excellent job re-packing the car.
Max had fun at the other antique shop we visited:
Off to bed in anticipation of an early morning!
Let me just say that there are some amazing stores literally around the corner from Amanda and Greg's really cute house.
I would go every day, truly. Our first stop was a place called Hunt and Gather, a huge antique/thrift store. Max stopped me at the door and said, "Mom, don't go in there, it's creepy." It wasn't, it was FABULOUS. We rifled through shelves and boxes and stuff stacked all over the place. They had a whole 1/2 room devoted to china. I have no idea how they don't lose hundreds of plates very day-they are stacked in piles that are as tall as I am on tables and in milk crates. It is an accident waiting to happen, thankfully not by me! We had some excellent success including a little flower chandelier for Rosie's bedroom, wooden letters for the kids rooms and a few Christmas presents. I refrained from buying the bench for the mudroom, the mannequin legs, baby doll parts, stuffed deer head or stuffed skunk.
Max had fun at the other antique shop we visited:
Once we hit Anthropologie the boys gave up and hung out in the air conditioned car watching Indiana Jones. We had even more success there and they got to watch Indie save the Ark of the Covenant. A win all the way around.
Emma only got a few blisters with her new shoes:
We slogged back to Amanda's in the heat and humidity and gathered up Greg to have some dinner.
Excellent pizza at Pizza Luce. They use huge cans of roasted red peppers to rest the pizzas on so we had to be very careful to not lose the whole pie to a slipping incident (not that we learned from anyone else's unfortunate experience or anything).
Then we had ice cream at Sebastian Joes; malted vanilla with hot fudge sauce-to die for. Ben and Jerry's needs to make a malted vanilla ice cream immediately. It would only be better with malted milk balls in it. I will call them when we get home.
August was having a snack when we got home:
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