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joy moments

Joy pockets of the week:

~ Let's get right down to businesss: 1 small cup of Coffee.  Extra Cream.  Every Morning.  Need I say more? No.  I don't.

~ Knowing I can make fun of my husband and that everyone who reads my blog knows it IS all in good fun! The Brad's and my relationship is based in good part on teasing each other (and I think that is why we hardly ever fight.)

~ Finishing this blanket for older daughters bed.  No pins, no measuring.  Just a bunch of unstraight seams, a few puckers and a whole lotta love.  

~ This drive that I usually make twice a day.  Sigh.  Not a lot of cars.  Orange orchards. Sigh. (And don't worry I took this from the passenger seat. I'm really not a reckless driver who berates her husband for not fixing wheelbarrows. I swear!)

Come on.  Look at This Moment. I got it good.  Ya'll know that.  I know that.  Done. Finito.  End o'story.  My life is one big Joy Pocket! 

joining....
this moment with soulemama
joy pockets with monica

this moment

 this moment with amanda

playing animal rummy with Miss 5 Years who is learning the ups and downs of winning and losing. oi vei.
and, if you were really just wondering and wondering, that is blue fingernail polish on my thumbnail left over from my 40th birthday last December.  That's how I roll.  I hardly have time to brush my teeth- do you really think I'm going to remove the nailpolish?

Have a great weekend!

XO

joy moments

joy moments:

dressing up brown dog.  happens frequently.  she's an interesting dog- moderately devoid of personality.  so when we can make time to fancy her up a little, it's real good for everyone.

 

white dog: more personality, way lovable, but total pain in the a**.  we dress him up just to bother him a little and get him back for all the times he annoys us.  of course he totally goes with it.  he's solid with wearing pink. I love that about him.  and yea.  I made the scarf last christmas.  made it for my neighbor who found it too short and made it a hella huge cowl. she may not be too amused that I dressed the dog with it before giving it to her.  it was only for a quick photo shoot.

of course I have a thrifting joy moment!  these plates are so gorgeous.  but I took the photo with a weird iphone photo app and now you can't tell just how rad.   4 of them for $6.  a tad bit steep for my thrifting eye, but I traded for something I had and didn't want.  see.  that's how I roll.  did I tell you about the huge handful of early 1900's silverware I found the other day?  $3.  la te da te da.

another joy moment: the egg poacher from yesterday's blog. 

and check this out: my 5-year-old says to me this morning: momma, if a mom is mean to their kid, and then that kid grows up and is mean to her kid and then..well it just goes on and on and on and on, right? And I told her: yeah.  that is basically the worlds biggest problem.  that is why everyone needs a nice mama and dada.

I'm so glad I'm a nice mama.  And that you are a nice mama (or dada.)  I think we can change the world together. don't you?

Have a great weekend!

linking with this moment and joy pockets.

 

joy moments

joy moments... a combo of joy pockets and this moment

::watching this cute little face eat lunch.
:: the finishing of the top of big girl's quilt (see previous post)
:: Finally.  Curtains for our bedroom for $2.  Ya.  Ya heard me.  $2.  Cause that's how I roll.  Of course thrift store material.  I just had to cut and sew a tiny bit. One turned out a little longer than the other.  Just about 12 inches.  It's sooo in style to have one one curtain a  full foot shorter than the other!  You don't know that?  Silly you.  Gosh.  You need to brush up on your sense of style.
:: wasting too much time on Etsy the other day and wanting these. Don't know why.  Just do.  Ho hum. I visit them on line every few days and just talk to them. 
:: enjoying cold weather so I can knit a few more hats and scarves and not feel too silly about it.  I feel silly about so many things, it's a nice relief to not feel silly about everything.

 

This Moment

Enjoying the end of the year with a "brothy" variation of this soup (my kids just like the broth!) alongside Oatmeal Sandwich Bread from the baking book Good to the Grain-  one of my very favorite Christmas presents. 

XOXO

Celebrating This Moment with Soulemama.

this moment

This Moment
A single & lovely moment from the week which needs no words.
inspired by Soulemama.

joy moments

This Weeks Joy Moments:

Great Granny's Molasses Cookies (will share recipe later this week.)
Being the highly excited parent of a small person who is doing her first "Christmas Show"
Ducks laying eggs in Winter (when the chickens stop.)
The constant knitting and crafting of presents (Wish I could do everything on the list here.)
Noticing (and enjoying) the seasons (while blocking out The Brad's whining about it being Winter.)
Having the best family in the world to share my Christmas with.  I get happier every year. 

This Moment with Soulemama
Joy Pockets with Monica 

christmasy joy moments

joy moments....

::Let's see....some of my favorite moments were decorating the tree.  (Three times.  How?  Well.  I decorated once.  Then again when the lights ended up frying out and I had to take everything off to get the old lights off and new ones on.   Then the whole tree fell down.  Smash.  Boom.  On one of the dogs.  She was ok.  Just covered in tinsel.  On the third time of decorating the tree I was not cheery and rosy and humming along with James Taylor's Christmas album anymore. )

:: Almost finished with the Big Lace Scarf!  I no longer call it bad names because I fully mastered it.  See? As I once wrote in a song many a year ago: Perseverance is King.  Some folks laughed a little at me because knitting is supposed to be "relaxing" and I was all stressed out trying to get the hang of the Big Lace Scarf.  But riddle me this people: How can you relax doing something until you know how to do it with correctness and ease?  Let me give you a major hint..cause...It's not a riddle actually, it's just plain common sense: you can't RELAX knitting the Big Lace Scarf until you understand how to knit the Big Lace Scarf.  Duh.  K?  K. And yes, when it is all finito, you will see it in the flesh.  I mean, in the fluff.

:: Finding out I am getting real strings put down on 2 of my new 3 songs.  Violin, viola and cello.  Yes!  I've never had a real string section on my songs. (You know I'll give you a sneak peak of at least one of the songs when they are finished.)

::Finding out I had a song used in a huge national commercial!!!!....in Bulgaria.  Yes.  In Bulgaria.  Hmmm.  Cool.  I won't be able to retire, unfortunately,  but I'm kinda all semi-famous n' stuff.   In Bulgaria. 

hanging with my ladies soulemama and holistic mama

::joy moments::

this moment with amanda & joy pockets with monica.

 

My Joy Pockets for this week:

truly enjoying the bright eyes, words, stories, questions and all around innocence of my 3-year-old

listening to my 5-year-old read, watching her run around in general glee, imagining a world in which she was president.

[somewhat] keeping up with the garden
(even though it's not as pretty or as fun as in Spring and Summer)

knitting, knitting, knitting and getting better at it all the time
(I tell myself)

baking, baking, baking, and getting more confident and quicker
(I tell myself)

this soup which had The Brad telling me I was "soup queen"

looking at the sewing machine and pondering

hanging out at my 5-year-olds tiny adorable public elementary school and helping all the brilliant, sweet children with Harvest Day festivities

feeling happy that despite the education budget cuts, there seems to be plenty of arts, crafts & music classes at her school! 

Have a fantastic weekend.

XO

joy moments.

Oh...so much to be thankful for this week. 

The feeling of Fall...finally.   (Not that I like Fall better than Summer.  But, it was time.)

Those of you who have been reading along know of my newest commitment to the environment and farm animal friends.

Dreams coming into focus again of a little more land, more food grown on our own property, a solar house. 

A great night with homemade pizza  and friends who told fun stories of buying land and building their own house.

A husband who took on cleaning out our garage that has not been cleaned or gone through since moving in house over 5 years ago!  (He is on day 4.)

The very same husband who built shelving for the garage so it will never get as disorganized and sloppy as it once was.

A mama who took on the girls closet (including all the little places that had not been touched in 5 years.)  We're on a roll, people!

Kale.  (I know I was happy for Kale last week too.  I may be happy for it next week as well.)

Happy chickens and ducks in my yard.

Kids who spend a lot of "This Moments" at the desk above being creative.

Hipstmatic photo ap.  Getting a little carried away.  Sorry.  I like the messed up edges on the photos this week.

This chair in white( and with arms) that was $10 at the corner thrift. Yes.  $10.  I am serious.  Paint is a little worn..thank GOODNESS!  I have waited for this moment for many years. Sigh.

My motto: follow your heart and you will eventually find what you seek.   Living this way I have found Brad, my kids and a Pottery Barn desk chair.  I believe living from the heart may someday in the not so distant future lead me to that solor house and more land. Maybe built from the ground up?  Just saying.  It starts with a dream. 

(Not sure where Monica is this week with Joy Pockets.  Did I miss something? Am I pocketing alone?)