The Story Of Us

Can you believe it.. we are back to school! While it will be great to have the kids back to school it also means early alarms, busy schedules and all the craziness that comes with it.  D is off to 10th grade.. I know I can hardly believe it myself. And H has said goodbye to Elementary School and is off to Middle School and 6th grade. But before we jump right into the craziness of a new school year let's take a step back into the last two weeks of August.  After our return from our trip to Egypt and Pakistan.. which I still haven't finished sharing with you.. we spent two weeks chilling at home. Or so we thought.  Our first weekend back M's cousin and family from Dubai were visiting so we hung out with them.. and they came over for dinner. When we first moved to New Jersey our closest relative was my great aunt and uncle in Pennsylvania. Now M has three cousins and their families all living within 30 minutes of us. One is a recent addition. So ...

What have we been upto these past few weeks.. We made breakfast on the grill..  and made dinner as well.. these are an attempt as cheesesteak sandwiches.. M is in progress of becoming a grill master.. I wish we could cook more outside but we have had too many rainy evening. We worked on a puzzle. and we read some books. We hit the library just the other day to stock up on some summer reads.  We went to the movies. It was a little predictable but still so much fun. The perfect summer blockbuster. I worked on a little nook in our foyer and gave it a refresh. The floor is hand painted by yours truly about 6 years ago.. you can check out the before here. We spent a day in Montclair.. we used to live not far from there when D was little.  The station is now home to a market where we bought this incredible spicy cheese. We visited a bookstore Had brunch at this cute Pakistani place called Chashni Perused some antiques How has this become normal.. Halloween in July.. seriously...