Dear Daughters: Mother’s Day in Reverse

Dear Daughters,

Today’s celebration is backwards in my mind.

I should be doing something special for YOU.


Why?

*You keep me on my toes.

*You keep me safe.

*You don’t tolerate wrong thinking.

*You love your father.

*You take care of me when I visit.

*You don’t like it when I bark up your tree- especially when I need to climb my own.

* You answer my repeated questions.

*You are inspired by the underdog.

*You don’t care Dad and I call the remote the changer.
 
*You don’t agree with everything I say.

*You begin comments regarding my fashion choices with, “I am not a fan…”

*You’re cool.

Happy Daughters’ Day

I love you, Mom

Garden to Table

Picking something from my garden in the morning

and having it for lunch that same day

is my ticket to pure joy.

This simple salad of

*romaine lettuce

*leftover roast

*monterey jack cheese

and

*my tomatoes

makes me feel frugal and healthy and like my kinfolk all rolled into one.

I hope you have something like that in your life too.

Candy Crush Intervention

My name is Laura,

and I am a new Candy Crush player addict.

More importantly,

all I really want to know is

”Will I ever get off level 14???”


I have never been a computer game player.


I spend enough time on the computer as it is,

involved in much more intellectual pursuits like reading blogs and

wondering

‘how in the world did she build that out of popsicle sticks?’,

or thinking

‘someday I TOO WILL make an 8 layer Hummingbird Cake with perfectly level layers with one hand while reupholstering my couch with the other’.

At this point,

all of that pales in comparison to my need to get rid of all of the jelly.

And so dear friends,

this is a

Dire Warning:

*stay away.


I have to go now…

level 14 awaits,

AGAIN.

Lightening Up

Have you been ‘lightening’ your house for spring?

The best method for me is always the simplest-

a swap.

On the mantel , I swapped out accessories that looked too dark and too ‘wintery’.

I then looked for things with interesting shapes,

like the tureen from my recent thrift store excursion (with no lid),

and I removed things that looked ‘hot’.

What have you been doing to lighten things up in your home?

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Linking to:

Tuesdays The Scoop

Tweak it Tuesday

and

Nifty Thrifty Tuesday

Smiling Spring of 2013

Earlier this spring, as my yard and garden beckoned,

and my series of projects began,

I started working hard on my yard.

I will forever refer to it as the

Smiling Spring of 2013.


It was the great contradiction in terms:

smiling in between ouches and rose bush scratches,

smiling while digging and hoeing and planting and watering and dragging hoses and

grabbing my aching back and wondering,

‘if I holler loud enough, will someone come pull me out of the back aching frozen position I am in at

the foot of my tomato beds?’

  
But…

I was smiling and in heaven.

Garden tour next time!