When we got back from Vermont Ally was dealing with an upset stomach for a while and felt pretty crummy. So we took things pretty easy and low key for a few days.
We are all excited that Cloey and Daisy are starting to get along better.
Puzzling!
Turns out Daisy is really active at night. She opens the closet doors, pulls open the drawers and drags clothes out of the drawers. She did all of that one night.
After NYC with her new Jordan sneaker purchases we have been thinking about how to store her nee shoes. Some Pinterest research and we decided a trip to IKEA was the solution.
But first it was lunch work. Every Friday we have been home this Summer we have made and 10 bag lunches for our Church’s Friday Cafe (homeless meal pick up).
Here we are at IKEA.
Ally put the shelf together mostly herself.
Becky and I hung it up and then Ally styled it.
No it’s not hung up crooked, it’s just that in our old house the floor and walls are not level and plumb. It’s pretty cute and yes the litter box remains in Ally’s room.
Saturday morning Ally and I went to Guatemala Girls at Gabi’s house. It was just us and Gabi and her mom. The girls went swimming for over an hour and it was nice to see some friends.
Then later for dinner we had Erik and his mom and brother over for dinner. The kids played PS5 upstairs and Becky, Deb and I talked in the living room. We all had dessert together later after dinner.
I am just so grateful to have Daisy. She brings so much joy and love to Ally. (And us).
I took at at home COVID test after feeling sick for a few days. Negative! Such a relief.
It was a really hot week. So lazy mornings in bed for Ally.
And puzzles most afternoons.
But we started thinking about changing up a wall in her room. These 3 prints below she’s had for a long time.
So after lots of texting of photos back and forth and some talk about her vision of the wall. I came up with the above layout.
Ally wanted all black and white. A mixture of words and art and she didn’t want anything “too perfect”
We had the Guatemala print and the Be you.
We found a couple of quotes from her favorite show The Vampire Diaries that she was excited about and I just kept searching for things she would like. Which is a challenge when Ally does not always know how to tell me what she wants but is quick to reject things!
Once the layout was approved. I ordered prints from Walgreens of the download files I purchased from Etsy. Then I did a mock up on the actual wall.
And hung it all up. Ally was pleased.
We all love this Rohrshack inspired cat print above her and Daisy.
We had managed to do the whole wall on a very tight budget using frames we had and inexpensive downloads and the Walgreens prints came out fantastic and were really low cost.
We all feel like this was a nice change to Ally’s room. It looks more like the room of a High School Freshman now than a middle school girl.
On our trip to VT we got a puzzle at the LL Bean outlet. It was fun to put together.
Beth and Becky went to the beach during the hottest day of the week. But before and after the beach trip Beth helped move some furniture around at our house. Our bench is going to live at the 2nd floor landing for a while. It looks great there and we can easily open and close the window which we love, but the downside of that is Cloey can get on the bench and scratch at the screen. It is a second floor window and we really don’t want her to push the screen out and fall out the window! The picture above was taken on Saturday which was cool weather, only 68 degrees after the 100 degree Thursday weather!
Daisy found an open window perch.
Saturday Ally was meeting her gymnastics friends at a local hotel for a pool party.
The weather was not great so they didn’t really swim.
But hung out in the hotel suite.
It was a sleepover party. But Ally did not sleep over. She came home at dinner to so she could eat and sleep well. Today, Sunday we have a new family picnic at her new school.
One more week of Summer left!
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