rain, fog, and gray skies...

Day number four of gloominess.  I will be the first to admit that I love groggy, rainy, misty days (if I can stay indoors), but four of them in a row are beginning to wear on me.  I love curling up by the fire with a book, I love donning my lime green rain jacket when I have to venture out into the wet world, I love the sound of the rain pounding on the roof, and I even love the smell of rain.  However, I must admit that it is getting old.  I know, it's only been four days.  What can I say?  I'm slightly ADD...  I get bored very quickly!  Hence, the pile of unfinished projects in my sewing room.  It has been getting smaller though!

I keep praying that the sun will come out soon!  Warm sun rays coming through the windows are the perfect thing to sooth the winter blues away and they bring the hope that spring won't forget to come (though it always seems to leave before it's welcome is worn out).  Somehow, light bulbs don't have the same effect.

Oh well, maybe tomorrow. :)

Blessed Sabbath

May my teaching drop as the rain,

my speech distill as the dew,

like gentle rain upon the tender grass,

and like showers upon the herb.

Deuteronomy 32:2 (ESV)

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“Shower, O heavens, from above,

and let the clouds rain down righteousness;

let the earth open, that salvation and righteousness may bear fruit;

let the earth cause them both to sprout;

I the Lord have created it.

Isaiah 45:8 (ESV)

little things that make me happy :)

• The smell of hot bread, just out of the oven.  It's smells up the whole house!

•  Paper.  All kinds, I really don't care.  Scrapbooking paper, sketch paper, card paper, brown paper, butcher paper, wrapping paper... As I said, I just love paper!

•  Pancakes for breakfast.  It isn't very often that we actually get up and cook breakfast, so having these this morning was a real treat!

•  Groggy, misty days.  Perfect for snuggling up with a book.

•  Fresh eggs.  For those of you who have never tasted a real egg, (and by real, I mean brown and delivered fresh from the back yard) I feel sorry for you.  You are missing out on something really delicious!

•  The smell of leather.  Oh yes.

• My little cuddle bug! <3

•  Oh books, how do I love thee?  Let me count the ways...

•  Scarves.  I have to admit that I do sometimes get a little carried away with mixing and matching colors, but I love it!

•  Homemade brownies.  Thank you Sarah!!!!!!

•  Piano music.

•  Taking pictures (as you might have guessed).  No this is not my camera.  Mine is a bit more modern. ;)

•  My lovely (and sometimes slightly crazy) friends.

back to normal

The holiday season is officially over.  We've all managed to consume two ginormous feasts, shop for gifts like money grows on trees, decorate the house, build a model of Mt. Everest out of wrapping paper hastily ripped of gifts and tossed aside, clean up multiple messes, relax and spend time with strange relatives, and stay up to ridiculous hours of the night to celebrate the first hours of the new year. 

Thankfully, the un-decorating process is over at our house.  It's an endeavor that everyone dreads.  The very mention of it produces groans and several irritated comments about the illusive house cleaning/decoration storing fairies.  They never show up when you need them.   We managed to complete the process quite nicely (without their help) and the living room seems empty after two months of having fall and Christmas decorations everywhere.  Then of course, there is the kitchen, where all of the boxes are piled up waiting to be carried upstairs. 

We can't be expected to do all of the work! ;)

And so, we get back to normal.  There's the daily cleaning regiment, laundry and ironing, lessons to plan, meals to cook (the leftovers have finally disappeared!), books with deadlines to be read, spring cleaning or new year cleaning to do, the beginning of the festival season to plan for, a garden to map out, herbs to study and seed, lists to be made for what we will be canning this summer, planning new projects for the new year and making lists of supplies, sewing projects to draft,  research to labor through...

Oh yes, we are back to normal!