What a difference a couple weeks makes. It is the difference between short sleeves and stadium blankets. Between sunscreen and umbrellas. This is the way of it every autumn. Early in the season the sun beats down and by the end we are shivering on the sidelines. Rain or shine they are on the field however, a fall tradition in this family for nearly two decades now.
I hope you are playing hard this weekend. What says fall fun in your family?
Another from the phone archives. Rather what I picture when I close my eyes and remember strolling along the streets of Cambridge that evening. No little people to corral. Just music at sunset. A very nice night out.
I had forgotten about these images still on the phone from our shopping trip to Cambridge earlier this month. Maybe you'd like to walk along?
We start this leg of the trip strolling through the marketplace late in the day as things were wrapping up.
A cloudy day in Ely. First stop, the cathedral.
Right this way…
We hosted our first dinner party at the farm today and it felt really, really good to have friends around the table(s) again. It was also good incentive to get the last things done around here that we had put off.
The menu was pretty simple as usual – steak and hamburgers for the grill, baked potatoes, BLT salad (we skipped the turkey this time).
The girls made two kinds of cupcakes which were less simple – chocolate fudge cherry vanilla and raspberry-filled lemon. Both went fast! New favorite game around here – Cupcake Wars, the home edition. ; )
Ed and his family have newly arrived in England. He and Allen have worked together different times over many years and were deployed together when I was expecting Brendan.
He is like the Pied Piper and the children were drawn to him magnetically. Abbie didn't let him out of her sight and insisted he sit next to her during dinner.
She does actually have coordinating clothing, fwiw, but has ideas of her own and usually reworks her wardrobe throughout the day.
Tomorrow is Cambridge again the girls tell me. So we better go finish night two of our Jack Black movie weekend and get those dishes done. I hope your weekend is full of good friends, good weather, and good food. : )
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