This week…

• Favorite Blog Post: The Blond Boy and the Bonfire at New Things Every Day  This is a blog written by a dear friend I have known for years.  She, her husband and her children live overseas and she shares the most entertaining stories and interesting cultural tidbits about life in the culture they live in.
• Favorite Kitchen Accessories: So I wandered into anthropologie this weekend and while the clothing (even clearanced) is beyond my comfort level in terms of price, I absolutely fell in love with the kitchen department products.  Oh my stars, take a look at these measuring cups and measuring spoons.  I mean, really.  How much cuter could they get?  (And there are plenty more than just these two designs!)  They even had darling aprons, but I would struggle with not wanting to wear them for their intended purpose because of their cuteness.  Oh, the dilemma!
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  Measuring spoons - seriously!

  

  And measuring cups! In all their cuteness!

• Favorite Weirdness: I encountered a young man working at Victoria’s Secret.  This has turned my undergarment and lingerie world upside down.  It’s bad enough shopping for personal items with men wandering around with their girlfriends/wives, but a man working there?  Oh, the embarrassment!  Don’t ask me why this embarrasses me when I can deliver babies in a room full of people.  It just does.  It’s a woman’s world.  We talk about the pretty flower patterns and matching bras and panties.  How do I have casual conversation about this and bra support with a young man checking out my items at the register?  Nope, don’t think so.   Weirdness.  Truly.
• Favorite Movie Freebies: Free Family Film Festival Yes, you read that right!  All summer long, Regal Cinemas hosts free movies for the kiddos on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings.  Free.  Free. Ply them with sugar and popcorn and darkness and stillness for a couple hours then turn them loose in the swimming pool!  That’s what I’m talking about!  Ha!  (read:  secret plan for making your kids sleep soundly at night)
• Favorite Soap:  Stone Street Baths and Body Company.  This is a family-owned homemade soap company.  I have fallen in love with their bar soaps and truthfully my skin has never felt better.  Good stuff.  Smells fabulous, too!  Chris really likes the “Tweed” men’s soap as well.