Well I must say I was thrilled to read all of your lovely comments from my Friday post :-) It’s nice to know I’m not that boring, even when I don’t have anything to post about. You gals are the best!
Can you believe we are heading in to our last week of Summer Break! In one way it feels like it all went so fast, and yet it also feels like ages ago that we broke up for Summer. One thing I can say is (as usual) I am SO ready for school to start. Not that I don’t like having Kristen home with me every day, she’s at that lovely age where she entertains herself a lot during the day and is no problem when we go out shopping for groceries. We’ve enjoyed baking cookies together, hanging out at the pool, visiting the library, getting groceries together, going out for ice cream and lately going horse riding. I really enjoy her company (most days) ;-)
But after 12 weeks I miss the daily routine of school life and I think she does too. She’s always eager to get back to school and see her friends again. Unfortunately this year she won’t see her ‘old’ friends, but I’m sure she’ll make new ones pretty fast.
This week Kristen had her second horse riding lesson, and loved it just as much as the first. I showed a picture of her earlier this week brushing ‘her horse’ Spud! Here she is riding again, learning how to grip with her legs and sit up straight :-)
While she was brushing her horse I wandered around the stable a little and snapped a couple of shots.
There are quite a few ‘barn’ cats that are just snoozing away, they probably can’t do much else in this heat!
I was going to add a little video from my camera but I’m using WLW and can’t figure out how to do it on here, it seems to want a URL, but in blogger I just upload the file just like I do a photo. I might try to add it in blogger later.
I was busy cooking in the kitchen yesterday, but will leave that for my Tuesday post. Gotta plan my menu again today, my budget has ran out! But Jason gets paid again next Friday… not that we don’t have money in the bank to buy food, I’m just trying not to use it and use up what we have instead. It’s amazing how much more you appreciate your $$$ when you’re using cash and not plastic!
Hope you all have a wonderful Sunday. I plan on taking Kristen round to the pool later as it’s closed tomorrow. Hopefully it won’t be too busy.
Denise
5 comments:
Hooray for Kristen! I am so glad to hear she is enjoying the horseback riding. She is at that perfect age to embrace new experiences.
I know how you feel about the kids going back to school...I had 4 running around and I just wanted my routine back after 9 weeks!
Good luck with your budget. I think you are doing great. Amazing what we can set our minds to, you are an inspiration!
xoxo
Jane
Enjoy your Sunday! here its rainy but I am kinda enjoying it cause the temperatures are so much cooler.
She looks so cute on that horse! I am glad that she i liking it. Stay cool and I will be calling later today.
What a beautiful horse. I was wondering where you lived with all those great trees and was imagining you somewhere cooler and maybe up north and then I see you are in Austin. I'm near Dallas so there went that illusion, but you do have a much prettier landscape/trees. Your daughter is adorable!!
I love the horse photos! I'm glad Kristen is enjoying her lessons.
I'm so proud of you for using what you have on hand and not spending more on food! That's real resourcefulness. I spent the weekend re-organizing my pantry, so maybe now I can make some headway with menu planning!
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