Creating a comfortable life one moment at a time
Yesterday, those of us who weren’t working or at baseball practice went for a walk in the woods to find signs of spring.
At the bottom of the hill, we found our first sign: the temporary creek that always appears as the snow begins to melt. It’s trickling along ever-so-slowly now, but we predict that it will be much higher and gushing as the weather warms. (Note to weather: please feel free to warm up any time now.)
The kids have a few days off for Easter Break, so this morning Lily and I got busy with bunnies. To get started, we used the Bunny Template to trace and cut out a bunch of bunnies from the most spring-ish card stock we had around.
The first project was Bunny Cards. They were super easy to make, and I love how Lily added a pom-pom tail to her bunny to add some dimension.
Have you ever been at a coffee shop or in a waiting room and you see someone reading a book and the cover looks interesting and you have to try really hard not to try to figure out what the book is? Because, of course, you don’t want to be nosy.
I’m thinking about this today because I visited a blog I like last night, and I wanted to ask the author (who’s bookish, too) what she’s reading. But it seemed funny to ask out of the blue. Especially in the comment section of a post about a spiced falafel veggie burger recipe.
I do love to hear about a good book, though. So today would you please share what you’re reading, and what you think of it so far? You can see my list over there on the left.
(By the way, Audrey Hepburn loved to read and her favorite books included The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Heidi by Johanna Spyri, and Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.)
I love quotations. I love how they take the wisdom of the ages and turn it into bite-size pieces.
So I was happy to see this gift idea from Luke Reynolds in Writer’s Digest magazine. Mr. Reynolds’ wife surprised him with a wooden tea caddy filled with handwritten quotes about writing to inspire his own writing. Quotes like this: “One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it” (Katherine Anne Porter). And this: “I write when I’m inspired, and I see to it that I’m inspired at nine o’clock every morning” (Peter DeVries).
Reynolds keeps the tea box on a shelf above his writing desk and before starting a writing session, he pulls out an index card at random, reads the quotation, and lets the words sink in and give him a shot of inspiration.
My friend Patti has given me some great gifts in all the years we’ve known each other. My favorite is the Magic 8 Ball she gave me the year we turned eight. My second favorite is the lavender neck warmer she got me for Christmas a few years ago. I use it all the time. And so do Tim and Will, who are both manly enough to wear something pink and fluffy.
I had the warmer on this weekend because my neck was bothering me, and of course Will had to have a turn. It’s very relaxing while you’re playing with Legos.
I don’t know if our neck warmer will ever lose its powers, but if it does it’s good to know we can order another one here. Or make one!
