Flips!

Memorial Day 2013

We had a fun and relaxing Memorial Day - the sun was out for the first time in days so this morning I re-potted my tomato plants and then went for a jog -- I can officially jog two miles of the three required for my 5k :-)

We spent the afternoon at Phil & Sue's where we barbecued and the kids had fun playing in the yard and with their dog, Lola. Here are some pictures:

Bad Dream

CHARLIE: "I had a terrible dream last night!! I dreamed that me and you were in a hotel and I closed my eyes and all of a sudden we warped to a nail salon. We were standing in the nail salon when a woman walked in and said she wanted her nails painted but the girl behind the counter said, 'No, you're not pretty enough to get your nails painted.' So I looked at her and I thought, 'Wow she IS ugly!' And right then I knew she had read my mind and that she was going to chase me, so I ran out of the nail salon and I looked behind me and sure enough, she WAS chasing me!!"

This dream baffles me on so many levels...

Trying Out Our Green Thumbs

With cherry tomatoes, sweet and hot banana peppers and marigolds :-) Seeing as Charlie managed to break just about every stem while re-planting the marigolds and Amelia already flooded the banana peppers, I'm not holding my breath :-P

Running Buddy!

My running buddy and I ran 3/4 of a mile yesterday and 1 mile today! Working my way (slowly!!) up to that 5k next month! Couldn't have done it without her :-P

Meet "Checkers"

Or, as Amelia keeps calling him, "Corny". 

It was fairly inevitable that we would leave this afternoon's annual Massachusetts Reptile Expo with something alive. The corn snake won out because it only needs to be fed once a week and doesn't need the calcium supplementation or special lighting that the lizards require. 

And of course because snakes are Charlie's first love...

Insurance Salesman

The other day while doing homework Charlie asked me, "Mom, how much do you pay for your homeowner's insurance?"

To which I responded, naturally, "Umm, err, what?"

Charlie repeated, "Your homeowners insurance -- how much do you pay?"

"I don't know, it's bundled in with our mortgage," I finally answered, " and why are you asking me this? I am pretty sure you don't know what homeowners insurance or a mortgage is!"

Charlie replied smoothly, "You should call Met Life. Their homeowners insurance is only 50 cents a day. " 

About here is where I realized that Charlie has been watching way too much tv. Or at the very least, paying way too much attention to the commercials. 

"So are you going to call them?"