Thank You Summer—Jimmy Fallon Style

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Nobody does gratefulness like Jimmy Fallon. His Thank-You Notes make US grateful we have a DVR, because Erin goes to bed too early to see him live.

 

1. Thank you, summer, for exquisite sunsets and blogging for making it impossible to just sit here and enjoy it.

2. Thank you chemistry for protecting our kids from summer’s dangers with a marinade of DEET, chlorine, and SPF. Brussel Sprouts should totally counteract this.

3.Thank children for taking turns being pains in the asses over an entire week. It would totally suck to have a full day of summer bliss.

4. Thank you fabulously fit people at the pool for proving once and for all that the government guidelines regarding fitness are utter crap. If you want to walk up stairs without a coronary, thirty minutes a day is just fine. If you want to rock a bikini, you are gonna need to move into the gym and swap your kids for protein shakes.

5. Thank you easy breezy schedules for letting us sleep in every day, letting us hang out every evening, and  giving our kids the freedom to constantly bug us for sleepovers. Nothing says easy like a house full of other people’s kids.

6. Thank you lower gas prices for making it possible for us to hang out in real life. Communicating with each other through our joint Twitter account was getting old and making us a little creepy to our followers.

7. Thank you, crazy people, for being consistent and keeping it up over the summer. We wouldn’t know what to do if you surprised us and gave us the summer off from your reign of insane.

8. Thank you air conditioning for preventing fratricide and swamp butt. Our kids appreciate living to see the light of a new day and, well, crack sweat is not attractive on anybody.

9. Thank you X-treme Sports for making us think we should teach our kids to paddle-board this summer. And kayak. And rock climb. And mountain bike. Instead of, you know, just swim.

10. Thank you soccer ball for hours of baby-sitting and all around knock-in-the-head fun, thus allowing us time to sit here and write this list while lifting our heads every once in awhile to watch the sunset.

 

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45 thoughts on “Thank You Summer—Jimmy Fallon Style

  1. Ellen

    Sometimes I look at fabulously fit people and wonder what true wonders of life they are missing.

    Perhaps someone who is fabulously fit will write a listicle this week to explain it.

    Thanks to thighs that don’t fill the whole car seat when I sit down and buckle up.

    Thanks to my 6-pack abs, so my cleavage goes from clavicle to skimpy bikini top.

    Thanks to my rock hard buns that are indifferent to your dagger like stares.

    Hm, I could only come up with three. Sad for them.
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  2. Kim @The G is Silent

    I went to a girls only luau on Saturday and fretted all Friday about being in front of everyone in my bathing suit. I now thank everyone who was there for not being perfect. A couple were thinner but mostly we were all chunky somehow.

    Great list, as is everything you two do.
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  3. Stasha

    Glad you had a great time and love the sunset photo. Thank you for always making me laugh with your fab lists and your awesomesauce blog. I heart you double Es!
    PS there is no such thing as blissful when you take kids on vacation 🙂
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    1. The Sisterhood Post author

      Truth in blogging. We were actually TOGETHER watching THAT sunset on THAT river beach while writing THIS Listicle.

      And the kids were being entertained by the soccer ball playing “Run the Gauntlet,” a game that involved running as a pack and avoiding being taken out by the “shooter” with the ball. Sweet times. 🙂 Ellen

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  4. Ducky

    See, you may be attending the wrong pool. Hit the local water park. If its anything like the one here you will instantly gain confidence. So much so that you could likely strut around naked while singing “I’m sexy and I know it” at the top of your lungs.

    Yes. It is THAT bad. I must bleach my eyeballs after every trip!
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    1. The Sisterhood Post author

      We LOVE summer so much. I start to mourn its departure starting in August, but I think without A/C my love would not be so fervent. Freon is fabulous. Ellen

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    1. The Sisterhood Post author

      My husband is the same way! But I will take meat locker over tropical rain forest any day. I can put on a sweatshirt, but I can’t strip down enough to avoid swamp butt without A/C. Ellen

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  5. Runnermom-jen

    Hahaha!! Love the kids being “pains in the asses” one…and each taking turns doing it. Sounds a lot like our house 😉
    That last picture is really gorgeous! Also, summer is the best time of year!!
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  6. Sara

    Thank goodness for air conditioning! Looks like a lot of people feel the same too! Nothing like sitting down on the couch to watch a movie & wanting to snuggle up only to find someone is sweaty! Thank goodness there’s a fix for that!

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  7. Jackie

    Yesterday I became sucked into the Iron Man from Hawaii competition. One day a year, I watch that shit and think “Hell, I could swim, bike, & run” then I wake up the next morning and think, who the hell am I kidding? I don’t run or bike.
    I kind of think the same thing happened to you two with Xtreme sports. Initially a good idea, but then with some thought, that realization WTF?!?
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  8. Liz @ShiftlessMommie

    Crazy people get worse during the summer. I was recently accosted at a Walmart for wearing my Maryland Law shirt. Apparently the woman found it offensive…unlike my “Jesus is my Health Insurance” shirt, which is totally blase. I think it’s the heat and solar flares (in that it is too hot to wear the tin foil hats that protect one from the mind controlling solar flares).
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  9. Diane

    I’m afraid I’m with Erin…well maybe not so much going to bed early but I don’t watch Jimmy Fallon on a regular basis so thank you for including the clip. Makes your list even better than FANTASTIC if that’s possible. 😀

    Beautiful sunset photo!!! Diane
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  10. christine

    You two never disappoint. I had never seen the Jimmy Fallon thank you notes. Thank you for the intro.

    I don’t know where you’re swimming, but at the pools I’ve frequented, I haven’t seen the perfectly sculpted bodies. At my pool, I feel like the most fit (and least “decorated”) person in the entire world.

    While I know of the phenomenon, I have never actually heard the term “swamp butt” before. Perfect phrase!
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  11. Dyanne @ I Want Backsies

    I have completely lowered my standards about how I look at the pool, since I figure I STILL look better than a minimum of half the people there. I’ve also tried to quit comparing my swimsuited self with those little twits in their late teens and 20s.

    I seem to have only one of my two kids home at any given time this summer, but the one home is the one whose turn it is to be the pain in the ass. How did I get so lucky?
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  12. Keesha

    I love this post. Especially as summer vacation is slowly fading to black. Although with 2 little kids at home all summer, I think the good part might be just beginning…

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