Sunday Siesta

Today is supposed to be a day of rest. So I am taking the liberty to make this a very simple post today.

Take advantage of today and rest!!

Spend time with your family!

Take a walk!

Read a book!

Relax your mind, body and soul!

Are you curious...

...what I'm doing today?? I am working on making my Christmas gifts! Remember how I said I was trying to add some June Cleaver homeliness to our humble abode? Apparently, what I actually meant was I am trying to be June Cleaver. It seems that I have decided to just jump right on that Holly Homemaker bandwagon.

Things like...

(re) learning how to sew,

can jam,

bake bread,

repurposing junk (I'm not sure if this is something June would put on her resume but it's definitely not something I could imagine any of the Housewives of Orange County doing... you know...the antithesis of June Cleaver...).

Anyway, these things are all on my to-do list. Probably not all on today's to-do list but.... well, maybe they should be all on today's to-do list. That's what June would have done right? I mean she's superwoman!

Is that the face I'm supposed to perfect too? If so, I'll pass. That's not really what I'm going for.

I am finding that I enjoy this Cleaveresque kick quite a bit. In fact, one can be quite creative when it comes to being a housewife. Who knew? Those feminists always make it sound like you are losing a part of yourself and succumbing to a stereotype of "meek little mouse" or something if you choose to embrace the title of housewife. But what they forgot was that some women actually like that sort of thing and so really those feminists are the stiflers. Rather than the stifled. Phew! Can you say tangent? Where did all that come from? Anywaaays....

Does anyone else want to be June Cleaver? Or at the very least, do any of you share some June tendencies? If so, do share! I would be interested to know what you do that makes you feel like you live in the 1950s. (I tell myself that I would have really liked to live during that era, but what I really think I like is the simplicity that the 50s seem to embody. Ahhh, the simple life... I think, in reality though, I would really miss the luxuries of the 2009s.) So what do you do that's oh-so-June?

Friday Fingerprints

Of course, pictures never offer a true picture of nature. Sometimes they come close, but that's when you have a fancy set-up of the latest and greatest Nikon SLR 54000 macro lens with optimum blah blah blah.

I have a point and shoot, nothing fancy about it. So when God gives you

WOW!!!! (said in a BIG GIANT voice)

instead, you get

wow. (said in a little pipsqueak mouse voice).

All that to say, this rising full moon was a definite WOW!!!! in person and since all I had was a little ol' camera and not a way to put the actual moon on this post, you'll just have to trust me.

But it's still something! And it is definitely a godly fingerprint if I've ever seen one, so there you go!

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Thanks again to pamperingbeki for her blog tradition of Fingerprint Fridays! To see more fingerprints, go here!

Blue skies to start your day

I've taken to looking up through my sun roof (or is it a moon roof? I was never sure of the difference between those two...). I try not to do this when I'm driving though.

Mostly just at stop lights.

It was, however, especially tempting this week. As you can see why above...

Aren't those skies beeeeautiful??



Ahhhhh.... It's like drinking a cold glass of water.

Do you feel rejuvenated now?

Refreshed?

Ready for a brand new day?

No?

Here's one more... Just drink it in....

How 'bout now???

Alright!!

Go get 'em tiger!!

November Blessings

As it is November and November is Thanksgiving month and Thanksgiving means to... well, give thanks... I have decided to focus on things that I'm thankful for. Even the smallest of blessings serve as a reminder that I will always have something to be thankful for. Even if the world seems to be imploding on itself and I can't seem to find a lick of blue sunny sky amidst the gray stormy clouds (figuratively speaking of course), I will always have, at the very least, small blessings. And sometimes that is exactly what we need. SO I'm going to start focusing on these things even now, when the sunny skies are quite plentiful and the world is holding up just fine (at least in my little bubble)...

(Note that these are in no particular order and are just appearing on this list as they pop into my head... please remember that, lest you think I treasure my car more so then my husband or my dog more than my own family. And, of course, this is not a complete list because otherwise I could never finish. If you really put your mind to it, there are millions, yes millions, of things to be thankful for...)


Health (cliche? perhaps. But truly, this is something I can never take for granted when there are so many ways these days to be ill. Pig flu anyone?)


My car


Good stable job


Cute puppy (And this really is a blessing more for her, because if she wasn't cute, she'd be outta here!)


Two parents who love each other


Two parent-in laws that love each other


A Husband with a vast amount of patience (Thank you God!!)


Ability to remember


A free country


Ok that's all for now. What are you most thankful for this Thanksgiving?? Come on, tell me! I know you can think of at least one thing!

Look what I found!

Do you know what these are??

Care to guess now?

How bout now?

Give up?

They're mushrooms!

Have you ever seen a mushroom that looks like this? They're huge! I didn't even pay attention to them for the longest time because I thought they were garbage or fluff or something. But then I took a closer look because they kept getting bigger and I realized that they were gargantuan 'shrooms. Would your life had been complete if I hadn't shown you these pictures? Probably. But I had to show you anyway.

I find excitement in the smallest (or largest?) of places.

Fall Decor

I've been trying desperately to add some June Cleaver homeliness to our humble abode. I decided that part of that endeavor would be to head out to the forest that is Knoxville and bring some of it inside.

Maia and I set out on our nature acquiring adventure one day after work. Our first stop was a hillside that I pass everyday on my way to work. I have watched the trees on that hill change little by little and finally I couldn't stand it any longer. I had to go on that hill and bring some of it home.

I left with a whole bunch of red, yellow, orange and pretty shaped brown leaves. I also discovered some sticks that I might go back for. They were all rusticy gray with lovely little moss patches all over them. I just don't know where I would put them. I do have a place for the leaves though.

We made one more stop and then headed back home with my bag of nature. And this is what I did with it. See the leaves???

I feel like me and June might be kindred spirits. What do you think?