Wrapping Up Spring Break

Today is the last day of spring break :( We've had a great week and I'm sad to see it end, but I know that summer is fast approaching and soon we'll be back to sleeping late and playing hard. After entertaining my girls this whole past week, I was able to get out yesterday morning and shop some garage sales with my parents.I left the house with just $40.00 cash and that was the exact cost of all the items I found - down to the last dollar! Here are some of my finds... A large antique mirror, some old frames, and some sconces. (The reflection is Ben and my mom debating how to hang the mirror)I am going to paint the sconces and frames, but the mirror is now hanging on my dinning room wall.I also bought this Vive le Fete 2 piece smocked cowgirl outfit for Anabelle, along with a sweet pair of pink gingham shorts, and 2 pairs of Lamore shoes. Love!Last, I was super excited to find this baby doll carrier from Middleton's Newborn Nursery. We plan to let Anabelle "adopt a baby" for her birthday this year and I can fill this carrier with some fun accessories as part of her gift. It looks brand new and I bought it for $1.00 (originally retailed for $21.00) Awesome!In other weekend news, my mom finished the pillows for the girl's bed. So lovely!Anabelle approves ;) Thanks Mom!I've recently decided to decorate my previously unfinished dinning room - starting with a chair redo. I LOVE these chairs (a garage sale find from a while back) but the paint is old and very chippy (and I assume lead based) so I am stripping them to repaint. Big job.I am also working on a fund raiser for Tom's One Day Without Shoes on Tuesday April 5th. My friend Kimberly is helping organize the St. Augustine event through Goldfinch Boutique and the Flagler College art department. She asked if I might like to participate in decorating the shoes with the art students - sounded like fun to me. I'm working on an idea with felt flowers. Take a look at some of the cool designs on Goldfinch's Facebook page. In case you aren't familiar with Tom's shoes, for every pair they sell they give one pair away to a child in need. One for one.One more thing I wanted to share is this yummy shrimp quiche I made last night. This is what it looks like before it is baked (no after picture because the hubby could not wait to start eating it). It's really easy to make...

Ingredients

1 can of crescent rolls (for crust)

1 block of pepper jack cheese cut into cubes

1+ cup of shrimp

1 bunch of green onions chopped

2 eggs

Press crescent roll dough into pie plate. Add cheese, onions, and shrimp. Pour 2 scrabbled eggs over top. Bake at 350 degrees for about 40 min.

I'm doing laundry and trying to finish watching The War tonight. If you have never seen this series let me just tell you that you should. It is perhaps the best WWII documentary that I have ever seen. It has such an original, touching, personal perspective. It features testimony from a few familiar faces (that some of you other history enthusiasts may already know) along with many others that you will feel you know by the end of the series. I often find myself thinking about how much I would love to sit with some of these fine people - for hours and hours - just listening. I especially day dream about how nice it would be to visit on a front porch with Katharine Phillips from Mobile (sister of Sid Phillips who was portrayed in HBO's The Pacific) I so enjoy her outlook, her sophisticated southern drawl, and the way she turns one syllable words into two (the way she says words like "war" and "boys"). I think she and I would get along just grand. She too is the older sister of two brothers (who served in the military) and has 2 daughters - just like me. I feel like there is so much that we could gleen today from absorbing insight from "the greatest generation" (as they are often refered to). We are in fact living during war and troubled economic times just as they did, but instead of learning to do without like the home front Americans before us, we just keep swiping those credits cards and neglect to contribute to the greater good of our country. We have an opportunity to learn from them! If by chance any of you know Katharine or know someone who does I would LOVE to meet her - I seriously can't think of anything I would like more. I do know that her family owns an antique store where she and Sidney sell antique linens in Alabama - I think I smell a road trip!