food, crochet, merriment
right this minute.
A brave old guy with a gimpy foot.
A weight loss book that finally makes sense.
A lovely bamboo box.
My treasures inside the lovely bamboo box.
A pretty girl on a perch.
An afternoon in Ponyville.
Keepsakes on the windowsill.
A new project for a friend’s soon-to-appear baby boy.
My favorite kind of weather forecast.
What are you loving today?
Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight.
Maya Angelou
right this minute…
A pretty girl kitty that seems to really like having her picture taken.
A great big, grumpy man cat that couldn’t care less…about anything…one way or the other…as long as you don’t mess with him.
An incredibly lovely, handmade quilt designed by my smarty-pants daughter over at Prairie Grass Patterns, and sewn together by my dear friend Lynnette. What a great thing to stay warm with.
A balloon wrapped in cellophane to look just like a giant piece of candy…stuck on the wall.
A kind little sweetheart that will make an incredible massage therapist someday.
An amazing discovery–a robot that will do your exercising for you…I’ll take two!
Miss Chompy’s Super bowl outfit even if they aren’t…you know…actually playing in it. Dang it.
What do you love this fine day?
“At the advent of a new year, I challenge Latter-day Saints everywhere to undertake a personal, diligent, significant quest for what I call the abundant life—a life filled with an abundance of success, goodness, and blessings. ”
~ President Thomas S. Monson
These days between Christmas and New Year’s Day are some of my very favorite. Snowy slippers, hot chocolate, Christmas music and…
wayyy too much sugar.
This week always feels like some kind of sweet bonus to a season that goes by all too fast.
In fact, if you said that tomorrow was actually Thanksgiving Day…
…rather than New Year’s Day…
I would happily, gratefully believe it…love it, actually.
Truth be told, I’m a bit of a “bask-er.” I work very, very hard to to slow everything down…
in order to feel it all that much more. I guess I’m hoping that if we could just let all that holiday goodness soak into our hearts and let it sink to the tips of our toes, and shoot out the end of our fingers like warm lovely light–well then…
It might just be that much easier to keep it the rest of the year.
Ok, maybe just for the first half.
Because by that time, I’m already looking forward to the next season–planning, sewing, sneaking around and scheming.
Yeah….I firmly believe that living from one Christmas season to the next…
is a good, good thing.
