Happy Weekend!

First up, head over to Elembee today and see what I love about my home state of North Carolina (as part of her outstanding "Across the USA" series)!

Meanwhile, we don't have any plans for the weekend other than to avoid all the traffic from The Masters.  It's been crazy, a lot of people rent their houses out that live around us and it's been party central every night.  Between that and the endless stream of jets in and out of the private airport near us at all hours of the day and night, I'm done.  My husband, on the other hand, loves it (he's headed over to Augusta National on Saturday).

I'm a Jackie Robinson fan and I am so excited about "42" which opens today:
 I'm hoping to sneak off and see it in the next few days.  I have a couple of books about Jackie that I would recommend if you are interested in more information about him:

Jackie Robinson: A Biography by Arnold Rampersand - a comprehensive and extremely informative book on his life. I loved reading this!

Teammates by Peter Golenbock - a kids book that is one of my all time favorites about a day in Cincinnati where Pee Wee Reese took a stand and put his arm around Jackie and declared him his teammate.  I bought this book before I was a mother and now it's one of my daughter's favorites.

Do you have any exciting plans for the weekend?  See you next week!

I want this!

Little known fact about me - I collect baseballs. Not just your run-of-the-mill signed and game used ones either (though I do have a couple of those), but unusual ones. I have one really beautiful brown leather one from Spinneybeck, one with Wrigley Field printed on it (which goes against the White Sox fan in me, but oh well), one that has stars and stripes, etc. So when I ran across this all black version by Goody Grams in Target's red hot shop you know I totally have to have it for my collection. Hope it's still around when "lock down" is over - ha!

Image via Target