{Virtual Coffee}

Hello there everyone.

Good morning.

Pull up a seat and have coffee with me today.

You know what I just realized the other day?

I have a fantasy of being able to meet friends for coffee (sans children) and this Fall when 

Miss Charlotte starts preschool I will actually have an entire hour and forty minutes three
days a week between school drop offs/pick-up.

BUT, (and here is the sad part) I will finally have free time to meet for coffee but no one to meet. 

Anyone I would want to meet would be working or have their own kids with them during

 my fantasy coffee date time. Sigh. 

I think we might have to start doing some Virtual Coffee Skype dates then...

So, if we were really meeting for coffee this morning, I would tell you that it is hot, hot, hot here

 and this will be the week of many indoor activities so I am trying to come up with some ideas for the rest of the week. The high is supposed to be 98* and then add the humidity on top of that...yikes.

I think this afternoon we are going bowling (on our Summer List) and Thursday we will be hitting the Dollar Movie at the theater. I need to come up with a few good craft projects, too to keep us busy.

 It's all about trying to find a good balance between finding things to go and do and

 just hanging out around home.

Too much running around drives me crazy and being home too much, just the three of us,

 drives us all crazy after a while.

If we were really meeting for coffee today I would tell you that Friday we went to our favorite little park/nature preserve and had a dessert picnic. Cupcakes and milk for them and and a 

frappuccino and turn-over for me, that was actually my lunch and my dessert. 

We saw lots of butterflies and bullfrogs by the pond but couldn't quite catch any.
 It was a pretty day to be there and the kids love the Pine Forest. Okay, I love the Pine Forest as
 much as they do and especially the teepee (tipi?) things people make in there.

Check out Wyatt's orange dreamsicle cupcake. It smelled just like a dreamsicle, too.

We had Sunday dinner here over the weekend and I made the best and easiest dish for the second time now that everyone, including the kids, loved. Actually loved, and it includes green beans.

It is just green beans, four ounces of cream cheese, pesto and penne pasta-or any kind of pasta you have on hand. You can serve it warm or cold and you can add Parmesan cheese if you want. 

I used the green beans I got from the Farmer's Market Saturday and it was so good. Yum.

If we were really meeting for coffee this morning, just like in my fantasy,
I would ask what you are up to this week. Anything fun? Any great ideas to keep us busy this week?  I'm not desperate yet but I might be by the end of the week in this heat.

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Hope everyone has a great Tuesday and thanks for joining me for coffee y'all!