I know this is going to sound really crazy but my world has been “off” all summer.

I have loved, loved, loved having the girls home and out of school.

She’s sure loved it.

But here’s the thing in the summer…

The Cotton Husband wakes up super early and tends to the irrigation systems that we have spread out on the farm –

and he has been…

oh, I can hardly say it.

He’s been…

eating at McDonalds every single morning.

::sob::

The upside is that I get to sleep in and I can’t even believe I have nerve enough to complain about that.

But if I sleep until 8, I feel like my whole day is gone and not cooking breakfast has just been too strange. 

So with school back in session, I am back to waking up at a normal hour and back to cooking big, hot breakfasts for Keith before he heads into the fields and I am back to my blessed routine.

This probably means that I need to start going to sleep earlier though.

You know, some people never have gatherings at their home. And this is normal… their house stays clean and quiet and they don’t have forty bags of chips left over because they are over-buyers.

Every Labor Day weekend, we have two parties.

And eighty bags of chips are  in my pantry right now.

As you might remember, we dove hunt on Labor Day. Well, the Cotton Husband does… I just concentrate on making a dent in that pile of chips.

We hang out, catch up with friends and barbecue and watch the yummy side dishes pile up in the refrigerator for later that evening.

The hunters sit in the fields all afternoon trying to snag some birds to wrap in bacon and grill …

All afternoon… lots of shooting… lots of marinating and wrapping in bacon for this:

About two bites.

I’ll just stick to the barbecue, I think.

The  (not so) big, (not so) bad hurricane has done come and done gone and everything is normal around these parts.

The cotton is still on the stalks.

We’re still picking out our own outfits.

My boy still has sense enough to stay out of the rain…

while his sisters have a ball dodging raindrops.

And we’re so thankful that this hurricane was fairly tame and grateful for the rain we received.

I hope all of my friends on the east coast can say the same!