Will someone please tell me why people are already talking about fall fashion and pumpkin spice everything? Every year by the end of August it seems all I hear is how "summer has come to and end". Whether school is starting or not, facts are facts: there are still 29 more days of summer! We live in the Midwest, so summer is sacred in these parts. And this summer has been, well, interesting to say the least. We've had an abnormal number of both rainy weekends mixed in with cra

If you follow my Instagram Storyline you got a little snapshot of our weekend and won’t be at all surprised that today’s post is about our threenager. (Ok, let’s pause for a moment here because Instagram now has a daily storyline! A lot of you are already following along daily, but if you aren’t yet, follow here for the “real” side of every day living.) After our threenager went to bed Saturday night I actually tweeted about our day: A threenager’s sudden surge of independenc