A Quick Catch Up...

So, what's been happening?

*For Christmas this year instead of doing gifts we took a family trip to NYC. It was great until I came down with flu the last day and then actually fainted on the plane coming home! 

* I turned 50 back in April! EEK, how did I get this old?

*Son has finished his second year of college!

*Daughter graduated from high school, with honors!

*We took a family vacation out west, that'll get it's own post!

* Husband and I celebrated our 28th anniversary last week.

*Daughter moves up to college 2 weeks from tomorrow!

I am still getting used to this new computer. Maybe it's taking me awhile because I am 50? I swear I am getting way behind with technology! 

If you want to see photos of life these past few months, take a look at my instagram account. I do post fairly frequently there!

Soon I will be back in the swing of things and hope to post at least several times a week. I realized while I was away that this is such a great way to record memories and I really missed it. 

Back to Blogging!

We FINALLY got a new computer! So I am going to try to jump back on the blogging train!
So many things have happened since I last signed on, so once I get some photos loaded, I'll be back with a post! 
~Nancy

I am still here!

Here i am almost two months since my last post. Still don't have a new computer but my daughter has let me use her iPad since she doesn't use it much anymore. It is so much harder to  write a blog post on an iPad instead of my computer! So, I have been enjoying reading everyone else's blogs, while I have neglected mine!
Life is good.
Getting geared up for Christmas. We decided to do a family trip to NYC for Christmas this year. I'm pretty excited. College son has never been and it's been almost seven years since I've visited! We fly up on Christmas morning and come back before New Years.
Teen daughter has submitted all her college applications and now we wait.
Are you ready for Christmas? Anything fun planned?

MIA

I think the last time I posted we were getting ready to go to a wedding...

in the meantime I get home after said wedding to find that my husband had a slight problem with my laptop and he tried to "fix" it for me. That didn't work out very well!

I am now without a computer and I am not sure when I will be online again! UGH! 

I can occasionally try to get on teen daughter's macbook, when she isn't using it, which is not very often!

So until I am in possession of a fully functional computer, here is a photo of the college son and teen daughter, from Sunday after my parent's 50th anniversary and the renewal of their wedding vows at church:

Aren't they the cutest?

Someone Turned 18!

Yesterday the youngest turned 18! That just seems crazy to me. I can remember the day she was born like it was yesterday! This time next year she will be a freshman in college! Yikes!

She doesn't like cake, so she found a recipe for a cookie cake. It was so simple but really turned out good! You make a sugar cookie dough and add sprinkles, press it into a pie plate and bake. Then I whipped up some frosting and piped it around the edges and sprinkled with those little colored nonpareils. 

We are hitting the road tonight to head to Pittsburgh to my cousins wedding. I am dreading the drive, but I can't wait for the wedding! It's an Italian/Polish wedding, so you know it's going to be a great reception after! Plus there is going to be a cookie table! Anyone familiar with those? I'll tell you all about it when I get back.....

Catching Up

Whoa, I didn't realize it had been so long since my last post! 

I feel like my life is just a whirlwind right now. 

I have been working on a few projects for the house:

This desk used to be in college son's room. It was a MESS! He had written on it, carved stuff into it and just about anything else you can imagine. Since we turned the old home office into our new closet, I decided that a makeover was in order! So I have started painting it with Annie Sloan Chalk paint. It's not done yet, much to husband's dismay (what can I say, I get easily distracted!) It should be finished this weekend!

Last weekend we headed to our cabin and to hang out in Clemson during the Clemson/GA game. 

We made a stop by college son's apartment:

I noticed that the vacuum I bought him was still in the box! I have hopes though that it might be used one day! ;) 

"Why sure I'll take your picture by Howard's rock":

We did a lot of hiking on Sunday. Oconee county has tons of waterfalls and we are trying to make it a point to visit each and every one! :

Though it would be nice if we could remember which was which!

By the last one I decided to opt out and stayed back at the car and read a book I happened to have with me:

This week is fraternity rush at Clemson. College boy has decided to do it! This mama's heart can barely take it! Today bids go out.... fingers crossed for him!

Today is husband's birthday, so I have a cake in the oven and planning our little family celebration! Gotta make another cake later today for he and daughter to take with them to Clemson tomorrow since Monday is son's birthday! How is it possible I have a 20 year old? 

I have to work tomorrow and Sunday, so no trip to the upstate for me! Boo! :(

So husband and daughter will make the trip without me. I think it will be good father/daughter time for them! 

Have a great weekend! 

ETA: Just received a text from son and he got a bid to the fraternity that he wanted! Whew!

The New School Year Has Started!

I am slowly recovering from moving the college boy back to school!

He and I left on Wednesday afternoon so that we could be up at Clemson and ready for orientation bright and early Thursday morning. If you recall, he was in the Bridge to Clemson program last year; he lived with about 700 other Bridge kids and took classes at Tri County Technical School, had all the benefits of being a clemson student except he didn't take classes on their campus and couldn't join a fraternity. He earned the required 30 hours and had a 3.0 GPA so he became an automatic sophomore at Clemson this fall! 

So, Thursday was orientation. He did his thing and I did the parent thing! He is all signed up for classes, which start this Wednesday. 

About a week ago he informed husband and I that his computer didn't work. What he didn't tell me right away was that he had spilled something on it. Four months ago! So, we take off for college with NO computer! So, to just help him get by, we stopped at Staples after orientation and bought a cheapy computer, which was not really cheap, and he can use it until his computer is repaired. Well, in the meantime I got the call from the computer fixing place and it would be just a little more for us to buy a brand new computer! UGH! It's always something! 

Husband had some big jobs going down at work, so it was just son and I doing all the moving in to the new apartment. My car was packed to the hilt with his stuff and we even had loads stored at our cabin that is about 23 miles away from Clemson. So we first made a trip to the apartment to unload my car. This was our first in person visit to said apartment. It is definitely interesting! Last year all the Bridge kids lived in a condo complex that wasn't very old, meaning it had granite counters, stainless steal appliances, tile floors, laundry room in each unit, etc. Let's just say this year's place doesn't. When we first walked in he said "it smells weird in here". I told him it was just old. I really wasn't sure what the smell was but I figured we could fix it with a few glade plugins! I wish I had taken pictures of the inside, but I was so focused on getting things unloaded that I only got one of him outside of the new place!

We've had a few bumps, like the internet is still not working and the key won't really open the front door... all that fun stuff that is so hard for me to take care of from down here.

Today was the first day of school for teen daughter! 

How did she get to be a senior? I think this year was much harder for me than even last when she left for France for the year! Now I realize that our little family is really going to be changing by this time next year and I am starting to really freak out about that!  

So how was your Monday?