Life Inside the Doll House

This past two weeks have felt a lot more like the summer that I was hoping for. We are all pretty exhausted by an intense few months of school and work, so we are not fully embracing it yet but we are certainly getting there. I feel like we have to have the homemade lemonade, homemade ice-cream, big watermelon slices and a few more beach trips before I can say that we have really experienced summer to the max. The thing that I have noticed is that I take a lot more photos in summer. My July folder on my Mac is already bursting. We tend to have more big days out which generate 100s of photos at a time. This leave a huge editing task and it is easy to get behind it with it. So lets catch up.  Day 214: Our garden is still a mess but a pretty blanket helps it out.  Day 215: Jumping on the bed shots.  Day 216: Rainbow Day 217: Puppet show Day 218: My husband and I had a rare date night in London. We watched Ghostbusters, whi...

I had hoped by now to be taking pictures of big watermelon slices in the sunshine and home made lemonade.  The plan was to have a beautiful tidy garden with twinkling summer lights in our magnolia tree. However, between one thing and another, this has been the worst summer ever.... so far! I won't go into too much moany detail but the weather has been pants and my garden is still in a post builder mess. Perhaps we will pull something out of the bag by the end of summer, but it isn't looking good.  We have managed some nice days out though. Bear had her big ballet performance last weekend. We were a little overwhelmed by the size of the production last year, but this year she was ready and looking forward to it. It was such a sweet little show and I was hugely impressed by the bravery of our pirate girl.  Day 207 - Bear's big ballet show.  We met up with the boys afterwards to go to a local park.  Day 208 - This was an evening ...

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