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!

Sweet Single Samples

The other day I stumbled across this display in the grocery store:

I realize it looks like a bunch of cheese but it's not! Maybe if you click the picture it will enlarge and you"ll be able to see that the shredded cheese is about a cup, the slice package is 4 slices I think and the cube packages are mini too. How smart! Great for cooking with smaller quantities and great if you just want to sample something!*

*Kraft does not endorse this post nor did they ask me to write it. I don't even know anyone at Kraft. I'm just excited about their smaller portions!

Day of Fun!

About a month ago, ABC and I had a "Day of Fun".

It was approximately a bajillion degrees outside but that didn't stop us!

We were going to have a pool day but even the pool was a few degrees below a bajillion and there wasn't a breeze so it was pretty miserable. We had a to do list and we conquered it and took pictures along the way. You're welcome! :)

Our first stop was Hob Lob. Oh how I love it so! We found these funny (and overpriced, hello 40% off coupon) items that we posed with....because apparently some people need an artichoke decorating their counters?!

We left Hob Lob and headed to Costco. The samples were pretty good that day. We were pleased. The receipt checker laughed when we asked her to take our pic because we were documenting our day of fun. I like the expression on the lady's face that's standing behind us...
We rewarded ourselves with a delish lunch at Cantina 1511 complete with guac! Loving the brand marketing with the coaster placement :)

We forgot to take a picture of our long, goose poop filled walk through Freedom Park. It was blazing hot and we joked that we sweated (making it a word for the purpose of this post) out a whole lotta chips and salsa!

The ultimate destination of the day......

MENCHIES fro yo! They have RED VELVET fro yo that's outta this world! And the toppings! Oh my the topping selection. If you live anywhere near a Menchies....you must check it out. You'll thank me later!

ABC left a few days after our Day of Fun for an over the pond excursion. She finally returns to the states on Monday and I am so excited!!!