Carole’s beauty shop and breakfast grill

On the way back from the camping trip, we spent the night at my mother-in-law Carole’s home.   The plan was to drop off Sophia for a few days with her grandma while she was still out of school.  As tradition as Carole’s house, we woke to a very nice breakfast meal.  It was no different this time.   Carole prepared  a dish called “SOS” which according to Carole has some sort of military origin.   Since this is a family-rated blog, I will suffice to say we had hamburger milk gravy over biscuits.

Anyway, after breakfast and three days of camping, it was bath time for the girls.  It was quite obvious from looking at the bath tub that  Carole used it for other purposes than taking baths.  So to work off my full belly,  I decided to scour out the bath tub so my little darlings can get cleaned up.  Each turn in the tub was followed up by beauty session at Carole’s beauty shop. 

Here are few shots from the styling session.

     

Both kids were happy as a lark … Then the bill came…..

Taking a break at Savannah’s Salon

Life is like a roller coaster the last few months in the Jackle household.  You would think that buying and selling a house would be enough. It does not end there.  Well, you know about the kitchen cabinets.  As with some traditional moms in a household, the home improvement projects do not end there. 

In the last week, Jackie has coordinated a contractor to take one of our single door closets and make into a double-door sliding mirror closet.  This weekend she painted both the children’s bedroom and playroom including the newly created closet.  She also has decorated both rooms with wallpaper decorations including playroom flowers and bedroom top and bottom wall borders.   She amazes me on how she can work full-time and still can kept the home improvement train rolling down the track.  

My job was to keep the children fed, bathed, and out of her way.  So this weekend, I played mainly “Mr. Mom” to the kids and “head potty trainer” to Savannah while occasionally assisting with the wallpaper border hanging.   The potty training is coming slowly but surely with an occasional mess to clean up. Well, we were all kids once. 

Jackie, finally took a break from the non-stop work weekend and took a shower Sunday evening when the painting project was complete.  She headed to a new beauty salon in Raleigh called “ Savannah’s Salon” which just opened recently in a newly decorated kid’s room in our home.  Jackie does not waste any precious time as she checks her messages while the owner of the salon takes care of business.  

Do you think she is coordinating a new home improvement project ?  Time will tell…