High Five for Friday!

Last week, I did not high five myself on Friday. This week, I seem t have it more together and will from this point forward forget that last week happened, or didn't. So, here are my five favorite things from this week:

 

1. Baseball is almost over.

Do not misunderstand me. I love that Landen is a sports kid, and I have a ridiculous amount of pride watching him play his Saturday games. But, it's been every Saturday morning for six weeks. I do love my boy enough to wake up to an alarm six days a week for his athletic endeavors, but I love my sleeping Saturdays to be happy when this is almost over. Plus, it's starting to get hot, even in the mornings, and shade is harder to find. Our last game is this Saturday. Then we are in a sports break until football starts in the fall.

2. Lonny magazine, especially the Furbish spread.

I finally sat down and read this month's Lonny magazine.  Jamie Meares's spread in the magazine makes me green with envy that I do not have more money to fully style my house immediately and that I live with boys for whom I must restrain my desire to totally glam out my house. On these pages alone, she wallpapered a corner cabinet for the purposes of displaying two of my favorite things - blue and white porcelain and coral. And then this giant Jackie O flanked by those lamps. Do you think if I showed up on Jamie's door, she would let me in to take pictures in a non-creepy way?

3. This is one of the best TV weeks of the year.

All the season finales have been stellar. I always cry in finales, and this week has been a true purge for me. Desperate Housewives, Smash, and Grey's Anatomy kicked my ass this week and it was FANTASTIC! Plus, the off-season shows that carry you through the summer have started, like The Real Housewives of New Jersey and Sister Wives.

If you are not watching The Real Housewives of New Jersey, you are missing the craziest, most fabulous hour on television.

4.  I cooked this week. The real stuff.

I did not cook a single night last week. Shopping and menu planning was a level of coordination I not aspire to last week. This week, I cooked white chicken enchiladas on Tuesday and cream cheese smothered pork chops on Wednesday. It's an extra hour of activity in a work day, but it feels so much better to be tired from feeding your family fresh, balanced foods than full from the Chinese food or pizza you fed them.

5.  The Secretary makeover continues through the weekend.

Earlier this week, I formally introduced you to my biggest furniture makeover project yet. Today I am going to get my paint so that I can make this sumbitch (I love you) pretty and me by the end of the weekend. This has actually become a functional necessity as well, because I am selling my desk this weekend. So if I do not finish this monster this weekend, I will have no place to work on Tuesday.

As always, don't forget to go see what Emily is recapping this Friday. Something about beer and makeup. And she travels. You can have experiences on her blog you will not get here, because Emily is a jet-setter, and I am stationary.

Let's switch it up this week, by ending with a gratuitious photo of my non-dog, whom Jake believes with his heart and soul is his dog, and not Aunt Cydney's.