I can't believe its August already!

Goodness. Its already the "last" month of summer. Its supposed to *almost* hit 100 this weekend. That will be good for my tomatoes but not so good for my little ones that are true PacNW-ers and wilt under the heat. So does mama.

I am going to start making to do lists I think. Its probably a good idea. Even if I don't do them till the last minute. At least I'll do them. Especially with Chris being gone for almost an entire week and me and the boys staying home. Yikes! We are playing it by ear whether or not we will go spend the time down with my family. I kind of like the idea of taking the nap time and bed time and getting some much needed work done on the apartment in prep for our upcoming move.

So here is my "to do" list for the Month of August

Cleaning:

• Pick a hot day and shampoo all the carpets. They desperately need it.  -CHECK!
• Go through and clean up toys and get out wrappers and garbage  -CHECK!
• Pull out the stove and fridge and clean under them and the sides of them (So gross we haven't done this since we moved in. EW.

Kids:

• Take the boys to omsi and watch a super sized movie there -Check!
• Go to the park and blow bubbles
• Get Carson really acclimated for swim lessons -CHECK!
• Go hiking (on not the hottest day of the year) -CHECK!

Moving Prep:

• Paint the Hallway and the living room white
• Hang kitchen blinds back up after painting
• Replace towel and toilet paper holders in bathrooms 
• Fill nail holes before painting
• Take down pictures and artwork 
• Magic erase the "art" on Carson's bedroom door. In fact magic erase all of Carson's "art" 

Its a pretty long list. Hmmm. Well we will see. My guess is that I will end up going stir crazy while Chris is gone and I'll bust out like 90% of my list in the 5 days he's gone. I have a love/hate relationship with Chris traveling. Its nice, because I get some solid 1 on 1 time (1 on 2 time) with my boys. We eat lots of take out, and rent movies. Everyone sleeps in the big bed. We watch movies to fall asleep. 

This trip is going to be extra awesome for Chris. Not only is he working towards bettering his career, he is going to be in Philadelphia! Which is where his best friend lives with his Fiance! I "surprised" Chris with two tickets to a Philly's game. But I suck at surprises and told him like 2 seconds after the tickets arrived. 

Cook books

Okay lets face it, certain things in this world should be left the hell alone.

Kool aid that come in those bad ass little bottles? Leave that shit alone. Kraft singles are another. I like my crap cheese to taste like wax. If I'm going to eat crap I want it to be real crap!

But more refined things should also be left alone. Cook Books is what I'm getting at, I mean, yeah you can find just about any recipe you could ever want just googling it. But some things there are tried and true methods. I have book shelves full of cookbooks that I thumb through, but some of my favorites are the old ones, the ones my mama used, the ones my grandmama used, but my absolute favorite is one my Great Granny had. I'm not totally sure of the story, but she gave it to me for my wedding. I love it.

Chris and I were recently on the coast at this awesome used book store and I was thumbing through some of these really old (read: expensive) cook books and I realized, yeah I can find almost all these recipes (with updates, and all that jazz) online but some things should be left alone. Nothing beats my mothers cook books that are scribbled in and you can still see flower thumb prints and marks from her sitting her coffee on it. I hope to someday have a daughter, or daughter in law to share my cookbook collection with. I hope to never see cook books die out. 

Some things in life need to be left the hell alone