our new hanging out spot

where before there was nothing...now we have a bright and sunny family hanging out spot! johnny and i made it a point to put our heads together and come up with something fun for the big room you enter when you come into the house, and we came up with turquoise walls, new pictures hanging in the frames, a red sectional and ottoman, and a teal chair. we still need to get tables, lights, and window treatments, but in the meantime, we're enjoying gathering, lounging, and not fighting for spots to sit!

summer lovin'

this summer
has been incredible
long days filled with nothing much...
reading books and watching movies
laying in the grass looking at birds and butterflies

there's been lots of sibling rivalry
but moments of sweet bliss
where everything is right in our world

especially when we are the only people
at the town beach
and there are four lifeguards
watching my three kids,
a hawk circling about the pine trees around us.
and we have a cooler filled with
chips and sandwiches and apples
and a day filled with nothing
waiting for us.


the summer days are numbered
so i'm trying to slow down
and enjoy these last days. xx

life according to joey

sometimes
when i upload my pictures to the computer
i find these little gems
videos that the kids have taken
of each other
of themselves

and i find myself
late at night
looking through the pictures and videos
dying laughing

this one struck me as particularly funny
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life according to joey

the things that are dangerous?


sitting on the toilet

kissing a woman

never brushing your teeth

living it

it's true, party people
i am falling in love with summer

i've always kind of dug summer,
but never really have been crazy about it
i don't love being hot
tend to get very overheated and exhausted and grumpy

but this summer

oh this summer

i am falling in love
with the beach
and the long days
and the movie nights
and the basketball and softball games in the yard
and the staying up lates
and the drumstick ice cream cones
and the farmers markets
and the dinners on the deck
and the birthday parties outside

and the nights that you most certainly, definitely must take a shower before bed because there's no way on earth that you can place your dirty dirty body on your clean, cool sheets

life is full, and busy, and not-busy, and wonderful. there is not a single day that goes by that i don't thank my lucky stars that i get to mother these children, and live this life that i live. it's as simple as that. a big thank you to the universe when i tuck myself in at night (and an extra big thank you to my husband who works his heinie off so i can live the life i live...)


i hope wherever you are, you are living your ass off. xx