Greeeen Acres!

Sing it with me!

Greeeen Acres is the place to be.

Faaarrrrm livin' is the life for me.

Laaaaannd spreadin' out so far and wide.

Keep Manhattan. Just give me that countryside.

Can you tell I'm missing large, lush, green spaces?! 

Yes, we have a few here in the Deserts of Doha.

And, yes, some of the most prominent green space is thankfully not far from my home.

And, yes, we even have a little patch of grass on our villa property. 

See?!

Well, it's not that green in this pic, but it does turn nice and green as long as it stays watered well. At least it was freshly mown. :) 

See?! The cute little patch of grass to the right?! And you thought I was kidding about it being just a "patch." And, you're welcome. Here's a pic of the front of our villa...AND our vehicle! Yes, this is much more than I got to see before the kids and I moved here! Consider yourself blessed. lol!

And just so you can see that there is great potential to make our patch much more cozy, here is a view of our neighbors on one side. I LOVE all of the lush greenery and established trees they have. People do as much as they can here with their green spaces.

And our neighbors on the other side even have some nice greenery as well. :)

And just in case you wanted to see the nice, quiet, brick "street" of our compound we live in. Seriously, it is super quiet. Hardly any cars come through here. And we are in the back corner. We are the next to last villa on our side. Maybe our son will FINALLY learn to ride a bike! At TEN years old! And we are even a short, safe walk from a nice bike & walking path...that also has green space along it...AND geocaching!

Still, though. 

Nothing here compares to the American countryside.

And, of course, nothing compares to our sweet family's farm/garden space in Northwest Louisiana.

By the way, no, I don't get lonely here. (at least haven't yet)

There is no time in my daily busy stay-at-home mom & homeschool mom & sports coach wife life to be lonely. 

Really.

However, just because I don't get lonely doesn't mean I don't miss our special people and places back in the grand ole USA.

Which brings me to the true content of this rewind post. 

Here are some pics of my in-laws' beautiful garden/farm property beginning with a couple from their back screen porch where we often started our day eating breakfast and watching hummingbirds as well as many other birds and animals.

 Ahhh!

I have peace just looking through these pics.

And now for the real, real content of this post...

Our Little Farmer Girl!

Baby Girl helped me pick veggies from the garden. :) She had quite a fun time helping.

Enjoy!

And there you have it! Hope you enjoyed this rewind!

Until next time...

More Randomness

I know...I know...you're probably getting a little bored with our boring ole American life, but I simply must share it.

Really, we had very little time to be bored in those last few months in the States. And, I have a few more pictures to prove it before we move on to our new life.

Hope you're enjoying Memory Lane with me! :)

So, while I'm toting kids all over the country back in the States, my husband is occasionally continuing to send me pics of him at various beautiful beaches and tourist destinations throughout Europe...not the least of which was Italy. One day...one day...

Anyway, I was also continuously asking (BEGGING) him for pics of our house he had finally found and moved into over in Qatar. (A girl's gotta know what she's working with, you know. Not to mention that all of the rest of our family was continuously asking me for the same.) Being the surprise loving person that he is (or actually the hard-headed person is more like it), he acted like he never got my request messages. Then once in a while I would get a pic or two of items at IKEA (yes, we have an IKEA) accompanied by him asking which one I liked better or something of that nature.

Here are a couple of examples:

He was asking if I liked this baby bed. I said yes. But, before he purchased it he ended up finding a different one. I like it, too. You'll see that one when I tour our house for you. :)

The first of 2 futons he sent a pic of to see which one I liked. It was going to go in our upstairs living/homeschool/play room area, but ended up going in our son's HUGE bedroom as an extra piece of furniture for him. I liked them both, and for various reasons we did not decide on this one.

This is the futon we chose. Boring, I know. But a little more comfortable if being used as a bed by company. Guess what it's being used as right now...a Lego work/play table! Yep! My husband's idea. Genius! :) 

He was showing me the bedding he was getting for our son's room. Avengers Assemble!

The first pic I got of the actual house...sort of. Guess the TV was most important to him at the time.

This one is a long story, but basically it's our countertop cooking burners and our indoor countertop grill. We now have them arranged differently and have a countertop convection oven as well. Yes, we could probably very easily have a full range oven in this house, and yes it did have one in it when my husband first moved in. However, the one that was in here was in dire need of replacement and he got tired of waiting for the owner to replace it...soooo, being the non-confrontational guy he is, he moved it out of the way and made up his own set-up. Different. I know. It's working pretty well for us, though, at least for the time being. So, I guess it will stay this way a while.

After begging for another pic of the house, he sent this...a pic of the ceiling in one of the living areas. Can you tell he can be a bit smart aleck when he wants to?!

And finally, he did send me this pic of our bedroom. Not to show me the house, but to show me the bedding set I picked out for it. (from some other pics he had sent that I have since deleted) I have now turned the comforter over so that it is mostly showing its solid white side with just a little of the purple hydrangea colorful artwork peeking out. (We had purplish-blue hydrangeas as our main wedding flowers.) 

So, those are the house pics you get for now. You just have to live with it, since I had to for so long. ;)

Now, back to some random kiddo pics.

Sitting in church with grandparents

Screen Porch Playtime

Thought this little phone notification was timely. She's so sumptuous you could sop her up with a biscuit...as we say in the South!

Hubby's real Italian gelato...in Italy

My husband kept sending pics of his yummy gelato from all over Italy, so I sent him this one day. Our favorite Greek yogurt, in America at least.

My son and his summer neighbor buddy hanging out playing video games

Who doesn't love a good game of Rock, Paper, Scissors?! These boys sure do.

We got to go with several cousins and grandparents to a live performance of Mary Poppins while in North Louisiana. Such fun!

My boy with Bert & Mary

My boy with a chimney sweep

Crawling all over the grandparents' house

Being cute, as always!

Caught her doing the splits!

I think she didn't know what to do once she got there. ;)

And in case you wondered if our kids look like me, well they both do look a lot like my husband, but I don't have any of his baby pictures on my computer. So, here are a couple of mine.

That's all for now! Bye bye!

Until next time...