This WONDERfilled Life...

I. Am. So. Behind.  You'd think with being locked in my home for going on five months that I would have oodles of time to take care of things...but ironically I feel BUSIER than if I weren't being held in COVID limbo.  I'm adapting.  I'm learning tons of things.  Literally I am learning new skills but I'm also learning about myself and how to be accepting of things since, quite honestly, we have very little control over much of what is happening right now.   So far in 2020 we've dealt with: two puking kids at the same time two attempted home invasions a global pandemic losing my job(s) homeschooling the last three months of Kindergarten bedbugs (more on that later) dead possum under the patio deck Bubba rearranging the teeth in his mouth tornado touching down in the city of Chicago That last one happened a few weeks ago.  We spent an hour in our basement with the sirens blaring here in the city of Chicago.  Luckily we escaped with almost no damage...

I broke my own rule…never post pictures of a project that you intend to write a tutorial for, before said tutorial is actually written and posted…but in my defense I just got so excited… Chicago Public Schools start school the day after Labor Day, so our summer is slowly coming to an end.   We bought a new projector during Amazon Prime Days and have been slowly getting our backyard ready to watch some “movies in the park”.   It’s been a process…we had to make a mount for the projector, get the screen to be the right size and figure out how to easily put everything up and down without leaving anything permanent on our beautiful “OASIS”.   (I have a post about our screen and mount coming soon!) Well all this random information culminates in us FINALLY hosting our first backyard movie night.   We wanted to be able to invite some of our closest families so P got to invite her friends and their families over to view her choice, Mary Poppins Returns, and it’s all hap...