May: Things I Am Loving

May: Things I Am Loving

1.) The Pop Cast Podcast with Knox and Jamie

This podcast got me through May and Farm Chicks prep. It is hilarious!! It's about all things pop culture. The Mother's Day episode is awesome. Tyler was home from work sick for three days this month and he ended up listening to several episodes while I was working around the house and he found it hilarious too.

2.) Brunch

You are either a bruncher or you are not. I am definitely a bruncher. It's my favorite meal to eat out. I am not a morning person and I never feel hungry until about 11 am. So while I enjoy going out for breakfast I never feel that I get my money's worth because I am never hungry. Brunch, on the other hand, is all the breakfast foods that I enjoy + lunch foods that I enjoy + dessert. Money well spent! Because there is nothing I love more than eating delicious creme brulee french toast, a couple of crab legs, some shrimp, a small slice of prime rib with horseradish sauce, with a slice of coconut cake on the side. Brunch...it's the best.

3.) Conference calls with my siblings

Or as we call it in my family: Calling 3-way and 4-way because we are children of the 80s. I remember the joy that I felt in the 80s when I figured out how to call 3-way and have simultaneous conversations with two of my friends!! It was nirvana!! I am even more delighted now as an adult and have the capability of actually calling up to 5-way, which is perfect, because there are five of us McClellan siblings and we often have things to discuss. You know what I mean? :) Sometimes there are conversations that are too long for texting threads. My mom gets annoyed because she is positive that the 5 of us have our own texting thread that doesn't include her...correct. She is also positive that we talk about her on it... also correct. (I am SURE that three of my kids already have a texting thread wherein they talk about me..so all is fair.) This came in VERY handy this month!! Because sometimes you have to talk about your mother...or your brother...or whoever. ;)

4.) Staycations

5.) Lily of the Valley and Homemade "Perfume"

This year I had a great crop of lily of the valley in my garden. One day to keep Ailey, Bryn, and Elle busy after school; I taught them the joys of making homemade "perfume." This was one of me, Stacey, and Kelley's favorite things to do as kids. We would pluck the petals off of all kinds of fragrant flowers...roses usually...but with the girls we used lily of the valley and violets that were growing in our yard. Growing up Stacey, Kelley, and I each had a vast perfume bottle collection. Our mother and our Grandma McKinnon were our chief suppliers. Oh the joy when they handed you a bottle that still had a few squirts of perfume left in it!! Our next door neighbor, Mrs. Cragun, taught us how to make the "perfume". Fill an empty perfume bottle with petals, add water, let it steep for two weeks, add a drop off food coloring. Boom. Perfume. Not really...but kind of. We loved making "potions" and "perfume" when we were kids and Ailey, Bryn, and Elle are no different.