Only in Delaware...

Would you see random trailers on the side of the road selling the following...

and yes...that van decided the random trailer was a cruz thru!

Do you share the road with a tractor and go roughly 5-10mph on a 55mph road because the tractor is either leading the way or taking up both lanes....
*yes, this is a tractor made of haybales and painted to look like a John Deere but it's cool!


No picture yet, but we also have numerous yard sales along stretches of main and country roads because if it's an open space or the edge of a field, why wouldn't you unload your house/attic/garage/closet and sell what you can to passerby's?



Crazy. But it's home!

Beach!

I LOVE the beach!

And I LOVE the beach in October when it's empty. So peaceful. So fun.

I also LOVE going to the beach with my favorite people.....

My Mom

and my Grandparents!

Budding Author?

Our Eeggs and Chiks

Today one of our eggs hatched. When the chick came out, it was wet. But in awhile it was dry and all of the yoke was gone.

The chick ran all over the place.

When we left all the other eggs hatched. The End

Kindergarten Megan was rather observant! Ha! Apparently our teacher typed what we wanted to explain through art.

Kathy or is it Cathy?!

Meet Kathy/Cathy...
She was one of my favorite dolls growing up. She's fairly large and may need to wash her dress and brush her hair, but she's had a rough life recently. Poor Kathy/Cathy lived on my bed. She'd keep watch over my room and really enjoyed her life. However, a few years ago (maybe even a decade) she was moved to a higher elevation.....the attic. Poor girl. Only she wouldn't fit in a box, so mother tied a piece of yarn around her neck and hung her from the rafters so that any critters that ended up in the attic would not eat her. The care was there, in a twisted way. :) Kathy/Cathy has since been moved back to the main house and is doing much better. I enrolled her in therapy and mother has apologized profusely for how she treated her in the attic. Kathy/Cathy is back on speaking terms with mother and is grateful to no longer be hanging around....ha ha.
As for her name. Apparently I used to name my dolls after the people who gave them to me. I asked mother how Kathy/Cathy came about and was told that Chuck who worked at the printing company, his wife gave me the doll. So, there ya have it!

Kickin it Old School...

OH MY GOSH! Get the girls together....it's time to play
Dream Phone--Guess who likes you in this talking telephone game! ("Hi, I know who it is!")
The Babysitters Club Mystery Game
Let's Go Shopping-Race Through The Mall In Search for the PERFECT Outfit
Mall Madness-Talking Shopping Spree...yes please!
Precious Places....only the best doll house around!

Old School Lite Brite.....

Did I mention Mother cleaned out the attic before I came home? Oh the piles of "treasures"!!!

*no company has asked me to post my Old School entertainment. In fact, this is a post for Antique Roadshow, not companies-that-probably-no-longer-exist endorsements! Ahh, childhood! :)

Happiness is....

One would think that as children age it would be easier to take a picture together......apparently these adorable almost 3, 4.5 and 6 year old didn't get the memo.... :)

Growing Up

My oh my how they grow.......

Being Held Hostage

I'm a horrible blogger.
I'm so bad at blogging that I just informed my Mom (who constantly sends me e-mails or texts or leaves me voicemails counting the days since my last post, putting August 23 in the subject line and/or talking about single cheese) that I was going to delete my blog. Oh the horror! If I had a camera at the exact moment I told her this, the photo would win awards cause wow did she look like a sweet puppy from those ASPCA commercials! :)
Really, the 5 followers that I have have most likely forgotten that Grace Like Rain even exists! However, I'm home for a few days and there are things I want to do, but I'm being forced to sit at this computer desk and update my blog before I am allowed to go out and play. My 26 year old self feels like a 6 year old again being told I can't go play with my friends until I finish my homework or clean my room. Goodness!
Anyway, I don't have a reason for not blogging. I'm pretty into Twitter these days. Falling off the whole Facebook thing. I'm not against change, but I usually just read the updates on my phone but sometimes even that is "confusing" and forget logging into Facebook on a 'real' computer...that's just crazy talk!
Well blog world, hope you enjoyed this hostage post. I'm off to go sort through some boxes of "used to be treasures but have most likely transitioned to trash" that mother has been collecting in the attic/my room so that I can go out and play.
Happy Sunday!