Today, in the car, after running errands:
“Mama? MAMA? I don’t like summertime because the sun makes me hot.”
Oh, y’all.
It would seem that the overheated apple doesn’t fall far from the sun-scorched tree.
You can’t even imagine how much it makes me smile.
I am the cold one in my family. Fall, winter and spring you will find me in flannel pjs, thick socks, and usually a sweatshirt under an electric blanket. The kids and hubs sleep in their underware on top of the blankets. So not fair!
‘Sounds like that little sweet boy needs him a swimming pool…and Mama too. we had one in Texas and it was a warm sauna by mid-June! A swimming pool is so.much.fun! :)
Or again, Colorado is a wonderful place to live…come see me sometime and you can show me how to make a scrumptious cake!
that made me smile. my 2 year old has already started saying, “turn the air on mama” the minute we get in the van. get the boy a pool already!
Hmmmm …. guess I’ll have to come there then.
I wouldn’t want a melted Alex on my hands. Not that cutie patootie :)
How funny!!! I share the same gene. I hate this weather. Especially this humid crap and no rain. I’m already looking forward to September.
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♥Trista
I Know Boo Mama! Its even hot in Wales at the moment… probably not quite to how you are used to it, but all we get is rain so this is bliss!
Anyway, lovin your blog, lovin the coconut cake, etc. etc… I could go on!
Blessings, Del xxx
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Tell him – It’s not the heat, baby, it’s the humidity! Like swimming in sweat. Pretty picture, huh?
Hmmm…they must have mixed up my apples at the (tree) nursery, ’cause I LOOOOOVE the hot weather and can’t get enough of it, and my DD HAAAAAATES it and complains incessantly. Do any of you lovely comment folks have one of those really ugly blue Intex type pool that comes with the ladder, filter, cover, etc.? I heard a horror story of a squirrel popping one and the yard flooded immediately and the ground couldn’t absorb the water fast enough, of course, so it flooded the HOUSE and wrecked the first floor….so I’m hesitant to get one and wondered if anyone here had any experience with them. Yep, I’m hijacking Boo’s blog!! But hey! Maybe BOO wants a big ugly blue pool, too, and would welcome the comments such as ‘I had one and my neighbor threatened me with bodily harm due to it being such an eyesore’. :o)
Amen, Alex & Boomama…….the heat is not FUN……but now, a pool would be! Surely his papa and mamaw want that baby to have a pool, don’t they???? =)
I had to laugh because I couldn’t agree with you more about the heat. We try to have our kids not say the “hate” word- but it pretty accurately describes how I feel about the summer temps. My younger daughter feels the same way and even though she’s adopted I claim it as my inherited gene!
hate heat… HAAAAATEEE it. So, your lil’ apple is tops in my book! You too!
Hey — why can’t I email you? All my emails … a myriad of them … have been returned since Tuesday — did your techie hubby do something he shouldn’t have? Crossed a wire? Unplugged something?
Just wondering. ‘Cause then again, it could be that I’ve been banned from BooMail.
I feel the same about both hot and cold. I am a temperate girl all the way – my perfect climate is about 72 degrees.
Y’all could always move to Ok; it’s 65 right now!
Too funny! It could be a rough summer in the Boo house; the deep South is all about HOT this time of year. I totally agree, though, I’m so not looking forward to the high of 95 here today.
Ugh – it’s so hot here too. It’s bad when my boys don’t even want to play outside!
I hate extreme heat — like the 120s we had in Phoenix the summer we lived there — and I hate the extreme cold — which we have every winter here in Minnesota.
Which is why San Diego is heaven — 72-75 about 90% of the year.
Of course, that’s also why it costs at least $500,000 to buy a fixer-upper there. But that’s another story.
We’re off to the pool today! And we’re not even as warm as y’all. Try to stay cool!
Amen, sistah!
Poor little thing! Don’t plan on making a trip to see us in AZ anytime soon. Today we’re supposed to be over 110!!
Get out the sunscreen :-)
I really only like Spring and Fall – but sadly here in Oklahoma those seasons only last a week each it seems. I’d much rather have coldness – after all in the summer you can only take so many layers off and then you’re still hot.
amen, says the californian, as it was 104 here yesterday…
I couldn’t agree with Alex more!
AMEN, Alex!
Y’all are living in the wrong place to not like summertime though…
Michigan gets hot, but it’s been a downright lovely 85 and sunny all week.
I still try to stay out of the sun though.
Because it makes me hot too.
Hi, I love your blog :) Just thought I should stop being a stalker and actually say hi. I’m originally from Houston but have been deported to Baton Rouge. God is definitely teaching me alot! Haha, have a blessed day.
I can take hot… it’s humid that I have a problem with!
This will be our first summer with central air, though… Hurray!!!
Jane, Pinks & Blues Girls
Oh yes. My children play outside for five minutes and then come running back in because it’s just “too hot!” You can tell they have my genes.
Bossy hears the North Pole is very lovely this time of year.
I think we must be related.
I would pay cash money for a cool breeze right now.
Have you warned him about….August?
Growing up in the even deeper South, I used to see catalogs with “summer sweaters” and I thought the catalog people were C.R.A.Z.Y! until I experienced a 4th of July in Utah. on a mountain. where there was still snow (and my wavy hair was straight!). HEAVENLY, I tell you. Then I understood… and, oh, how I think about it when I’m cutting through the humidity just to get into my scorching hot car… in August.
Me too, Alex!!! I’m really trying to be a good sport and take my kids to the pool, park, etc., but it’s hard to put on a happy face when sweating so profusely. I keep reminding myself that if it were 40 degrees I’d be wishing for this weather, but it just doesn’t work when you live in a place with the climate of Calcutta. And don’t get me started on the mosquitos…
I just read your comment, Jennifer, and I laughed out loud. I too have gotten many a chuckle out of seeing the words “summer” and “sweater” side-by-side. Too funny. I have to keep reminding my mom not to even buy the kids more than one jacket/coat because we don’t even get to use those very much in the wintertime.
I do miss my northern Wisconsin summers. Not that you didn’t get heat once in a while. But it was short bursts… with lots of comfortable mixed in between…
Tennessee summers could NEVER have the word “comfortable” used to describe them…
Blessings,
Karla
Dude. Today I had to go to the college I’m going to be attending in January to take a test to see if I’m smart enough to teach young ‘uns. Good thing “Finding your way around” isn’t a section on the test, because I would have failed it. You should have seen me wandering the campus, back of my hand to my forehead, moaning and wailing. I was hot, but I was dramatic.
I live in Canada and everytime we travel south I long to buy a house, pull up a rocking chair on the porch, make some ice tea and pretend I was born south of the Mason-Dixon line. But, then these little droplets form all over me… I begin to glow (because REAL ladies dont sweat!) and I know deep down inside I could nevah evah be a graceful southern gal when I wilt that quick in the heat… sigh.
Well, I made the cake. Instead of three layers, I did a bundt to try out my new stone bundt pan from Pampered Chef. It took longer to cook (high altitude) and really was not too long in the mixing time–although my hand held cuisinart blender got a bit hot after 7 minutes of continuous blending over the double-boiler. It tastes very, very good! Even my Chris, who isn’t fond of coconut loved it. I think now I will die happy of a sugar coma!
Thanks for sharing it!
Love,
Holly
Good boy.
It’s 59 degrees in cloudy Seattle.