Sunday evening

Sunday evening, a photo by mariology21 on Flickr.

The weekend has been pretty low key. Ree has a little bit of a cough so we've been relaxing. This evening we did manage to start out Sunday routine of visiting the Auntie for football and dinner. It was nice to start it up again after missing a few weeks due to colds.

Here's hoping the coming week is illness free and warmer then it was out today!

Friday

This post was supposed to go up last night. But it came down to being on the computer or curling up on the couch with a book. The book won!

Thursday & Friday were both yucky weather days. Thursday deluges of rain. Friday unbelievable wind. So we stayed close to home both days.

We had an impromptu afternoon with my sister. Playing with every single one of Ree's toys; having chicken nuggets for supper; watching Tangled; and ice cream (for the husband).

Here's hoping the weekend is full of fun!

This Moment

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

Joining Amanda in everyone's weekly moments!

Mid-week

This week has been tough emotion wise with so much negativity swirling around cyber space. Between mean comments on a blog that brings beauty and peace to so many people; mean spirited words on various social networks; sad, negative articles on the news it's just getting depressing!

Part of my New Year's "resolution" is to try to find Joy in each day. I've joined Ann Voscamp's Joy Dare to count 1000 gifts in 2012. I need to focus on finding the beauty in each day and counting those in a little journal will hopefully help.

Life really is good. Beauty and joy is all around. Even when we need to search for it each day holds it. We need to focus on that instead of the depression and darkness that seems more prevalent then the beauty.

So only 11 days into this New Year and I'm renewing my resolution to look even HARDER each day to come up with joy and photograph at least once a day what has brought beauty into my life. It shouldn't be too hard...I've got a gorgeous 2 year old whose whole being brings joy into life!

This Weekend....

This Weekend we....

....played outside without our coats
....went on a family outing to the mall
....played wii fit together
....took pictures of nature
....built some shelves
....watched football
....took ornaments off the Christmas tree
....knit some socks
....knit a bit of a hat
....had fun with Rachel
....watched some more football
....ate lots of good food!

This Moment

.{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

Joining Amanda at SouleMama for this week's "This Moment"

Thursday

These pictures were taken about 45 minutes apart just a little while ago. I like seeing the different afternoon lights around the house.

I didn't get as much done today as I had planned. Instead Ree & I went to dunkin donuts to get coffee & donuts. Then we had a tea party.

This afternoon I was going to bring up all my boxes of books to finally unpack them in the built in bookcases. I didn't feel like making umpteen million trips up the stairs with heavy boxes. 

So I made meatballs instead.

My husband will be happy about that! 

I found myself wishing for some snow this morning. Just a little bit. Enough to take Ree out & play in for a little while. Plus there's something calming in sitting and knitting with the snow falling!