I Had A Camera and There You Go..

I just bought some batteries and put them into my camera...The sunny was shining so I decided to take a couple of pictures around the house - Link up to share yours if you like....


This is the view from the top of my stairs



This is a flower arrangement I made from items bought at Walmart...



This is a flower arrangement I made by copying an arrangement I saw at Michael's




I picked this picture up at a garage sale for $5 dollars - painted the frame white - and there you go..



My kids rooms after I said don't leave the house until your room is clean...ooops




This silly thing is on my kid's wall - she says it art...



This is the big screen in the game room that my kid fell into - notice the tape holding the screen up...?



The husband's golf ball collection - Can you sing There's 999 golf balls on the wall?



The pool table - if my husband doesn't find a job - he could always be a pool shark..



Or He could win his March Madness Pool - see the concentration?




And finally my messy desk - but you have got to love the view..

Summer Imagination

When I was a kid my summer vacations consisted of hanging out with my friends, riding bikes, and using our imagination. Every day was a new adventure. I remember building a fort made out of cardboard boxes...it was huge. All the kids in the neighborhood came over and our imagination took over. One day we were fighting Indians and the next day we were the Indians.... We were too busy having fun to watch TV. We did not have game boys, ipods, or cell phones. Those things did not exist yet... I had a transistor radio and my favorite radio station was KFJ on the am dial....Motown was big and family values were high.... Our family took two big vacations when I was younger. Both were long road trips to visit relatives. My sisters and I would play I spy, read a book, play barbies, or sleep. We did not have a portable DVD player or laptops to occupy our time...
I love to do creative memory projects when I have some free time. The other day I was going through my family's summer vacation. My family meaning my husband and I and the girls. We have gone on two Mexican cruises, Lake Tahoe, Zion National Park, Yellowstone National Park, Bahamas, Morro Bay, and a two week road trip. In addition to our family trips, the girls went to camp with girl scouts and church. When we are home, the girls would attend tennis camp for a few hours everyday... I noticed while I was reminiscing that I have never let my kids just do nothing....meaning let them plan their own day...use their own imagination.... No wonder when there isn't a good show on TV they don't know what to do with themselves...
This summer I have made a decision. We will not go on a family trip. The girls will not go to tennis camp every day. They already have their lessons three evenings a week. I'm going to let the girls figure out what they are going to do. We live in Southern California so there are many things. They can go swimming in our pool, we can ride bikes to the beach, have their friends over, or maybe make a fort out of cardboard boxes....They don't know this yet...but the TVs will be taken out of their rooms... and I will have them read two books this summer. It's not too late to find the joy that I had as a kid...and for them to learn to use their imagination....