Wednesday Link Love

I’m not sure how I have not stumbled upon Becky’s Blog before, but it is just a FEAST of color and beauty!  Oh, Becky!  I want to have every room in my house filled with your colors!

I’m sure you can detect themes in my links each week and can pretty much guess what I’ve been craving, and I’ve been craving beauty.  And I found it here and here and here and here.  Sigh.

And I must have a little foot thing going on too- loving these  and ooohhhhh how I would love to trace my horrible flat hurting foot and send it off to the Aurora folks so that I could have my own pair of these!  Be sure to watch the video.

Then there would be (as always) the food theme……like, how much would I love for Louisville to have this amazing line-up of food carts?!   And the next time I feel the need to comfort someone (or myself), this recipe is coming out.

So, I thought this was the coolest idea ever when I first read of it last year.  And when my birthday came around……I had forgotten it.  Will I remember this year?  I guess that’s the difference in her being 30 and me being…….not 30.  But isn’t it a great idea?

Thinking that this is pretty fun too…..

Hope you feel rich and happy!

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I want to fall asleep to these sounds.  Like, now.  A heavy quilt, this sweet sound, and a smile upon my face.  Good-night.

Today

FOR TODAY
Outside my window  I still hear kids playing- evidence of spring break.

I am  thinking...about the miners and families in West Virginia, about their hard scrabble life and the fear of accident that they live with all of the time.

I am thankful for...feeling better finally.  I just woke up feeling normal yesterday.  What a long week!

From the kitchen...tonight there were baked potatoes FROM MY OVEN!!!  Just fixed today.  Can’t wait to really be able to cook this weekend.

I am wearing...black.  My favorite color for clothing.

I am creating...some simple notecards for a friend as a surprise.

I am going...to have all of my kids under roof this weekend!!  Yay!  I am never happier, and it’s been wayyyyyy too long since I’ve gotten to look my son in the eye.

I am reading...getting ready tonight to pick something from my Christmas stash.  I think it will be The Girls From Ames.

I am hoping...to do something fun with K on Thursday.  She hasn’t really done anything fun for spring break.

I am hearing...everyone in my house doing their own thing.  DH has a tv show on, K is on the computer in the kitchen, Herbie is grumbling and wanting to be held, and Willow is smacking her lips in her sleep.

Around the house...is a general lazy feeling.  I just feel so dang good to feel good.  The house needs some attention, but I’m thinking maybe I can get away  with crying “sick” for a day or two more?  Probably not.

One of my favorite things...is that once the weather is warm, the neighbors are all back out on the porches at night.  Had a great porch session with my neighbor Mr. Al  and my nephew on Sunday.   In the early hours of Saturday morning I stood out on the porch and looked up and down my street and wondered if anyone loves their neighborhood as much as I love mine.

A few plans for the rest of the week……..a vacation day on Thursday and then on Friday the gathering in of my little chicks.  Already making the grocery list.

Here is picture for thought I am sharing…..

Symbols of God’s love- in green!

Today I have joined with other women who are choosing to linger on the simple things on Tuesdays through The Simple Woman’s Daybook.

Dancing to the rhythm of the resurrection song

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Easter isn’t over until I hear this song or see these sweet people.  Only thing that could have made the day better would have been if C had been able to be with us.

Good Friday

It pulls at some deep corner,

this scene of mother holding battered child,

cradling a son, become a worm.

The hair she had combed,

blood-matted,

the silken skin, gashed.

"What have you done to him?"

turned to "At least you can do no more."

Blackened nails, limp arms willingly pinned,

energy drained from one who feared he could not do enough all

lost to the weariness of the long dying.

In crushed silence, we enter the empty night

of those who murdered God,

vowing we will not add another splinter

to that cross.

Good Friday Kathy Coffey

Loving This!

Wednesday Link Love

This time of year never passes that I don’t think about the year I awoke to a baby chick in my Easter basket.   Recently, good friends of mine have been hosting 5 little chickies in their living room and it has brought back some of those memories.  I happened upon this the other day, and may I say that I would so gladly live in Heathe'r’s chicken coop?!!

Check out this $5 challenge.  Pretty cool, huh?

I’ve thought of this paint by number mural all week!

Interesting article on Embracing Abundance

On that great and glorious day when I have an oven again (don’t even ask) I will make some of these!

Today’s beautiful weather makes me want to fix a pitcher of this and sit on my porch for hours.

And maybe I have found my niche……..not camping, but glamping!