Did you miss me?

I have just gotten back from an over a month long excursion.  But, luckily I worked my tail off in June and got most of the posts up before I left….so you probably didn’t even know I was gone. 

Did you?  (Ok I did a couple of guest posts while I was there….)

Sneaky I tell you……but I couldn’t very well let the scaries know that my house was empty.  That’s another thing you should know about me….paranoia.

Here’s where I was.

My great-grandparents bought a small fishing cottage on a small lake in Northern Illinois (where I grew up).  So this is the same lake where my mom spent her summers as a girl, and where I spent my summers with my grandma “at the lake.”  It’s a special place for me.

And now where my kids got to spend a month of their summer “at the lake” too.

This is what you do at the lake…

And then we came home.

By way of this….

and this…..

P. S.  I really should do a whole post on Mt. Rushmore ( I loved Mt. Rushmore..) and Yellowstone.  I will….I just need to go through about a hundred million more pictures.

P.P.S I am glad to be back…(kind of ), but the mountain of laundry that faces me is daunting.  Truly.