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Bangs

My husband and I were waiting at the end of the driveway for my son’s bus to drop him off yesterday. (I’d taken the day off for a salon visit and a doctor’s appointment.)

Aaron looks at my hair and says, “Do you know that one meme, with the cat wearing a lime on its head…?”

After we both had a good laugh, he backpedaled a little and told me that my updated ‘do reminded him of an astronaut’s wife — like, classic retro ‘60s hair.

I think maybe he was thinking more along the lines of Sharon Tate:

My bangs v. Sharon Tate’s

At any rate, my new bangs definitely made an impression. I can dig it.

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Fun Friday

[Taken August 24, 2018 at 5:34PM]

This summer, while Connor was attending day camp, he and I started a new tradition of Fun Fridays. It stemmed mainly from me not really wanting to cook dinner after picking him up from camp on a Friday, plus Connor wanting to stay up a little later on Friday nights.

Typically, we’ve been going to a restaurant together for dinner, then coming home and doing the normal bedtime routine, and finally coming back downstairs and watching Good Eats reruns on Amazon Prime in our jammies. Yesterday, though, since summer camp is over and school has begun, I didn’t have to pick him up from anywhere. So, as something special, I proposed that we order pizza and eat it on a picnic blanket in the back yard.

We polished off most of a medium stuffed crust (half mac and cheese, half bacon), then got our jammies on and watched Good Eats (the waffle episode and the sneak-parsnips-into-everything episode) while we ate dark chocolate dipped in peanut butter. After that, we brushed teeth and read a book and I tucked Connor in for the night. However, I also allowed him to read in bed… as many books as he wanted.

He fell asleep with the light on and a book under his arm.

Fun Friday success.