A Swinging' Time on the 4th of July!

Who cares that it is a rainy, stay-inside type of day today?

Certainly no one in our family!!

...for today we added another reason why there is no place else on earth we'd rather be than HOME SWEET HOME.

Actually, this new 'reason' was courtesy of two kind and generous people known as "Mawmaw" and "Pawpaw" here in our neck of the woods. Because of their extreme thoughtfulness, in two short hours, our yard became a zillion times more 'funner' than any of us could have hoped for!

For today, Amos and Ted from good old Intercourse, PA delievered a brand spankin' new PLAYSET to our home!

Even Annie, who has in the past shown great paranoia of being placed in anything that puts in her motion, found GREAT amusement and joy in her new red and roomy swing.

The wonderful father of my children spent the entire time the 'crew' was here, helping to assemble this newest feature of our favorite place under the sun.

Thank you, Mom and Dad, so very, very much for making available to us a structure that will make so many marvelous memories for our children and the children in our neighborhood! (Even if it produces a broken bone, or bumpy bruise!

On another, much more shallow-er note, allow me to publically say that two weeks ago, I realized after viewing recent pictures of myself that indeed, I had turned into one of those women that people look at and say "Wow, 1992 must have been a good year for her...according to her hairstyle, she's never left."

On whim (ok, with maybe a little research, all of which clearly placed my hairstyle of 16 years firmly in the "do not do this" catagory for my long face shape), I called a local gal I heard of who works right down the street and I came home a new woman. Hopefully, I can style it like she did.

HAPPY 4th of July. What a privalege it is to live in FREEDOM. More on that later.

Dinner is calling...