Lacrosse and Lucketts

Hi and welcome to Spring Break! The kids are home from school this week so it should be fun and interesting around here. I am looking forward to a relaxed routine without all that driving around that I do all day long between the schools.

Now how was that for a beautiful weekend?? For Palm Sunday today it reached around 70 degrees…my kind of weather! Yesterday was breezy but a nice one too. It was a lacrosse day. My 8 year old played his first game and my six year old had his first practice. I played lacrosse briefly in college, and my Dad played throughout his college years. An East Coast tradition lives on.

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On Saturday evening, my parents took the 2 lacrosse players on a unplanned trip to the beach so we were down to just 2 boys at home. As my husband said, it felt like “date night”! We went out to eat, stopped to get a piece of my favorite chocolate cake, then stopped at Michaels. I finally found my copy of the new Marie publication!

Today we headed out to one of my all time favorite “local” destinations – the Lucketts store just outside of Leesburg. If you like shabby chic or just plain ole treasure hunting (and you’re from around here), you’re probably very familiar with this popular place. Lucketts was an old post office and general store and now it’s the place to go, knowing you’ll find something great. The prices are surprisingly reasonable for the DC area, the shop is overflowing to the parking lot, and the staff is always friendly.

When we arrived on the scene, we got to talking to a nice staff member named Henry who came to work on a carpentry job at Lucketts 14 years ago and stayed. He helped us pick out some scrolly, rusty iron bits from the junk heap that was going to be tossed out. I thought they would be perfect for photo props. The old iron bits and pieces were intended to be picked up by young workers as scrap iron to be turned in for gas money…but the guys never came and the scraps were heading for the trash. We took plenty of pictures to share with you. Everywhere you looked around the property there was something just right to photograph….the old red doodlebug in the field….the buildings that used to be a horse farm…the pretty cupcake stand by a nice baker from PA. I just love this place. Interior designers from around the area do too.