The Long & Muddy & Exciting Road

Muddy, scruffy looking yard. . .



















Clean, groomed, green yard! Woohoo!!

October is here already?

Well the lawn is up at green, while the sky is grey and drippy. Like a clash of spring-like growth and pleasantly dreary fall all smashed together in my front yard. Woo hoo.

No other thoughts from my brain at this time. I used to write a lot--why was is so easy to waste time in college blogging? Instead of writing papers, I would write pointless updates. Now, instead of cleaning my house, I don't do anything. Not even blog! :) Crazy, hey. Yeah, me too.

New computer!

After a 6 month hiatus. . . I finally have something I consider blogworthy, namely, I have a computer that doesn't crash while I try posting a new entry. Yep, new laptop! Who's happy? Me. Who is mildly jealous? David and my old laptop. :)

thankfulness

A few months from Thanksgiving, I know, but right now I am thankful for a whole lot of things. I will list a few, since it is good to be specifically thankful.

*David, who makes me smile
*Our house, which makes me feel very very blessed
*Food, which makes me hungry and then blissfully NOT hungry
*Sunshine and rain, which both make me happy when they happen with mostly sunshine and then a nice few days of rain for a change!

Thank you, God, for everything.

My Christmas List

• safe flights
• most presents made it past security. . ,
• Stress Ball!
• "I think I'm happy. . . HOOO!"
• Wine
• Day trips
• Historical Landmarks
• Rivers & rocks!
• Ironstone Winery :)
• Daniel's pellet gun from Dad
• Daniel's .22 from the brothers. . .
• back scratches
• food
• chocolate
• leftovers
• games & stories
• tiny bed :)
• sisterly shopping
• motherly advice
• fatherly jokes
• brotherly love. . .
• old books
• Mountain Mikes Pizza
• Jamba Juice!
• Bass Pro, huzzah!
• and of course, the train museum
  
• Wonderful Christmastime!
  

Henry and the Christmas Baking Adventure

Henry the Polar Bear, a true value if there ever was one, now resides in our front yard. His leg lights are lame, and his head ones were dead, but I added a bunch so he lights up pretty much all over, if you pretend that the bottom part of his legs are stilts. He was almost extinct, I guess you could say.




This is David, sneaking things from the kitchen during the Christmas Baking Adventure.


And this is me, heading up the C.B.A. Immediately after this, the white chocolate in the microwave went beyond the melty, gooey stage and into the crusty, over-radiated stage. Silly magazine recipe for truffles. Why do I think I can make you? Although . . . they do TASTE good, even if there is crusty-ness not listed in the recipe.

Oh, and it shall snow tonight again! Yay! a fresh dusting of snow for a pre-party evening. Love it.

What!? Christmas?

We are two weeks away from Christmas. I think it came awfully fast this year. . . oh wait. The store has had trees up since September. Nevermind. It's a long time coming, and I'm so excited it's finally imminent! Last year my Christmas was sort of smashed between graduating from college, saying goodbye to my friends, getting married to and moving in with my David. I was a little distracted.

But not this year! I'm reveling in the songs, the colours, my husband's efficient help in writing/folding/stuffing Christmas letters. . . I am completely content.

And this year I'm really celebrating Happy Birthday Jesus time--2000 years and he still matters. Come, worship the King!