Weekend Update

Y'all.

This morning I walked into the kitchen to find this on the calendar:

Lauren had removed last week's page to reveal the page we had all been dreading. We are really trying to muster some excitement, but mostly we want to stamp around the house complaining about the end of a great summer. We are getting there. We're trying. It's going to come together. I can feel the beginning of a big pep talk beginning to formulate in my mind, and from there, will sell it to everyone else.

Because really, it's going to be an awesome year. (See, you really can talk yourself into it.)

Before we get geared up for back-to-school this week, we had a fantastic final weekend of summer. The trio had a spend the night party with Grammie (+Lexie), and they had an awesome time. Skip and I had a great date night, and then took everyone out for breakfast Saturday morning. Other highlights included the trio spending some time with Gran & Poppa. As for us, we ran a lot of errands, read and carved out some time to finally watch "The Circle".

Although the book was fantastic, the movie received horrible reviews, but I think if you've read the book, the abridged nature of the movie is forgivable since you already know the backstory. The book is significantly better. As far as the plot deviation, we were very surprised to see that Dave Eggers also co-wrote the screenplay because it was quite a departure from the book.

Other than that, we worked on some home projects, continued to get ready for the imminent start of school and just generally had a good time during our final easy days.