{Virtual Coffee}

Wow, It really feels like a Monday morning so I am wondering if anyone will remember to show up

 for coffee today. Does it feel like Monday to you, too, because of the Holiday yesterday?

Well, I am up and around finally this morning but kind of dragging still after a busy weekend,
and ready for my coffee.
I am sitting on the front porch this morning in my little wicker chair drinking
 my homemade cinnamon dolce latte. The weather is perfect right now.

So if we were really meeting for coffee this morning I would ask all about your weekend...

how was it? What did you do? 

For those of you here in the States that celebrated the Fourth of July, did you watch fireworks?

We spent the weekend at the cabin and it was really hot the first day but we survived. 

The guys went the day before us and by the time my mom, Charlotte and I got there it was actually not nearly as hot as it was just one day earlier. I think it had to have been over 100* before we got there and

I am so thankful we missed that. This mama just does not do well in that much heat and humidity, it makes me so grouchy. I am just not a big fan of sweating when you are sitting completely still
 and not moving at all..... yuck.

Sunday night around dusk we drove out into the country to try and see some fireworks. 

We didn't have to drive far at all and we could see fireworks in the distance, 

and some kind of close, from every direction. Some were hard to see because of all of the corn
 and trees but we pulled over and let the kids get on top of the car to so they could see them
 better and they thought that was pretty cool.

Honestly, I think their favorite thing might just be getting to drive in the country without their seat belts or even having to sit in their seats. We only let the kids do that when we are down there and
when we are not going far at all- and just for the record,we did not pass another car.
It's kind of funny that for the kids that is such a big deal but when I was a kid I remember sitting down on the floor in our station wagon while driving cross country on vacations.

If we were really meeting for coffee this morning I would wonder how your summer is going?

 I know some of you have just recently finished school but since we have been out since right before Memorial Day, by the time the 4th of July rolls around it feels like Summer is half-way over

 because it pretty much is for us. I hate to even think about that, so I will just try and block it out.

Today will probably be spent catching up on laundry, playing outside and continually checking us all for ticks all day. There is no way we made it home from the cabin without a tick, somewhere on someone. That is the absolute worst part of being out in the woods.
Well, my coffee is getting low and I need to sneak up to my bedroom for a quick update on a
 certain murder trial I am a little obsessed with right now.
It's tough being on verdict watch with the kids around, I have to sneak away to get updates
 because they don't need to hear any of that mess.  ; )

Tomorrow I will be back with a full Cabin Post, full of many, many pictures taken with
my real big-girl  camera. These iphone pictures are just too easy.
Thanks for joining me this morning, hope everyone has a great day!