What's Up Wednesday: August 2024

 

This post is bittersweet for sure!  It is my favorite linkup of the month BUT it also signifies the end of summer....feeling the pain in my heart.

 

My girls start school today- wishing them a wonderful school year!  Right now we are racing around so you know the drill...

What We're Eating This Week

Monday- Party Leftovers- Smoked BBQ Chicken- Baked Beans- Salad

Tuesday 8/27/24- Popcorn Chicken, Roasted Potatoes, Zucchini

Wednesday 8/28/24- Let’s Taco About Going Back To School- we did this a few years ago too and it went over well :)

Thursday 8/29/24- Breakfast for Dinner- Eggs, Turkey Bacon, Pancakes and Strawberries

Friday 8/30/24- Pizza Night!

What I'm Reminiscing About

Our Simple and Wonderful Summer...the beautiful weather...the walks on the rail trail...the rides with the top down...the teas...the lake...the beach...the quality time with family and friends...a summer I was dreading turned out to be one of the best ones yet...my heart is full 

What I'm Loving

This mystery...I am obsessing but loving this time for Diana...so much fun!

What We've Been Up To

Living our annual crazy August for sure...

We loved watching the girls have a blast at theater camp at Derryfield and got to enjoy seeing Eva as Cruella de Vil in 101 Dalmatians and Diana as Margot in Legally Blonde

We enjoyed some of our favorite teas while going around town doing some Blackout work :)

We snuck in some Sylvie snuggles

Rob and I loved seeing Jeff jammin' with his band

We hosted some friends for pizza and Olympics watching when our golf plans got rained out

We loved seeing Daddy and his band Pop Roks at our town's "Concerts in the Park" series- Sylvie made a cameo too ;)

 

The girls helped a few of us committee members to put together our Blackout Bulletin Board in a local school

We enjoyed an Olympics themed wine group at BA's

and my BFFs and I enjoyed the NKOTB show up in Gilford despite the crazy rain!

Rob and I loved the movie "It Ends With Us" based on Colleen Hoover's novel

We loved participating in the Martorana Strong Wiffle Ball Tournament- our team this year was called "Wild Pitches" 

We celebrated our 20th Wedding Anniversary with a night up at the beach with our girls

 

and an overnight in Boston...yeah!

and Papa took us out for dinner to celebrate as well

We celebrated Papa Pete's Birthday with an amazing Italian Dinner by Mimi

Diana made WHS Varsity Cheer after working her tail off all summer! 

There has been much time on the rail trail...

 

and plenty of teas from Revitalize!

Mama loved book club at Dawna's- we read "What I Should've Said" by Max Monroe-such a great book!

Someone rocked hockey camp!

 

and she is loving her new haircut as our we!

and we celebrated BIG for Diana's Sweet 16!

A Belly Piercing

 

Fun with a Family Dinner and "stunting" ha!

A breakfast with Zach and Zoe

 

A Birthday Tea at Revitalize

A Fun Birthday Date

and a successful surprise party to cap it off!

 

What I'm Dreading

Nothing at the moment!

What I'm Working On

Recruiting- Real Estate- Managing the Fam and Blackout

What I'm Excited About

Friday Night Lights...not the one on tv...the real life ones that we will get to enjoy again...ahhhh!!!

What I'm Watching/Reading

I watched the new Laci Peterson documentary- very good and just heartbreaking all over again

and we started binging Friday Night Lights again...I think this means Time #5...we and especially I AM excited about Windham Football games- yeah!

and my two books for August were

What I Should've Said by Max Monroe (Book Club Read)

 

 When grumpy, muscled-up artist Bennett Bishop bothers to speak, it’s usually to say something you’re not ready to hear.

When he first speaks to Norah Ellis, a rambling runaway bride who hitchhikes a ride from him, it’s to tell her to get out of his truck and walk because she’s a pain in the a-s-s.

By appearance, Norah Ellis is a fancy fashionista who’s spent the last several years living the good life in the city—expensive apartments, highbrow events, and a fiancé with wealth and good looks. The only problem is that she didn’t choose any of it for herself.

On the day of her July wedding, thanks to a letter from a stranger, Norah’s world turns upside down. She runs for the hills of Vermont to start a new life, but what’s waiting for her, between her estranged sister, the townspeople, and bad-boy Bennett Bishop himself, is way more than she bargained for.

Enemies turn to lovers, strangers become friends, dark secrets bust open like cans of worms, and most of all…Summer will never be the same.

LOVED this book- perfect mix of romance- Hallmarkiness and heartbreak

and "What Have You Done" by Shari Lapena

Nothing ever happens in sleepy little Fairhill, Vermont. But this morning that will change. And one innocent question could be deadly. What have you done?

The teenagers get their kicks telling ghost stories in the old graveyard. The parents trust their kids will arrive home safe from school. Everyone knows everyone. Curtains rarely twitch. Front doors are left unlocked.

But Diana Brewer isn’t lying safely in her bed where she belongs. Instead she lies in a hayfield, circled by vultures, discovered by a local farmer.  

How quickly a girl becomes a ghost. How quickly a town of friendly, familiar faces becomes a town of suspects, a place of fear and paranoia.

Someone in Fairhill did this. Everyone wants answers.

Oh she did it again friends- I flew through this- she is one of the best suspense writers I swear!

 

What I'm Listening To

Well yesterday/last night was all about the playlist I slaved over for Diana's Party

What I'm Wearing

Some business- some casual- some workout clothes- the usual and still haven't gotten good at capturing pics of my outfits- sigh- hope to start getting better at that this fall!

What I'm Doing This Weekend

One more weekend of celebrations...celebrating my birthday with my family and friends and getting some beach time in...Diana will be at cheer choreography all weekend so I am looking forward to quality time and decompressing!

 

 

What I'm Looking Forward To Next Month

 

Watching these girls CHEER

 

What Else Is New?

 

I think I covered it!

 

Fave Recent Amazon Purchase?

 

This stool HERE

 

  This will help me reach the high shelves in my closet!

What are you all up to?