Today I am Feeling....

Refreshed. Renewed. Re-energized. Why? Well, a couple of reasons.

First, there is still snow outside and that's pretty. Temps are increasing our way though, so I don't think it'll last much longer :(

Second, its Sunday and I still have tomorrow off work. Yay!

Third, reading a GREAT book. This book:

Photo courtesy of Amazon.com

I started this great little book the other day but really started reading it today. It's by Todd Burpo, a pastor out in Nebraska. Back when his son Colton was three he suffered a burst appendix but by the time the doctors figured it out, the poison from his appendix was leaking out for five days. Can you imagine?? This little boy was on the verge of death so they raced him into emergency surgery and, after a very long, uncertain haul, he finally made it back to health. It wasn't until months later that Colton started clue-ing his parents in that he had experienced something amazing. He started telling his parents about his visit to heaven and was able to tell them things in his three-year-old vernacular that let's face it, three-year-olds just aren't taught as such an early age and he had no other way of knowing. I think my favorite so far is him telling his dad that Jesus has markers. (Intrigued? Well then read it! :) ) He even told his parents what he saw his parents doing while he was in surgery...somewhat creepy, but oh... I'm only about half-way through this book but just to read about all this family went through just put me in tears and reading the three-year-old words are just so cute and inspiring and renewing. So yes, I recommend it. Hah.


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Ooooh and another reason why today is a good day...this morning when I stepped on the scale I saw a number that I haven't seen in months--a good number! Yay!! I've been trying to be really good about what I eat and my activity level lately and I'll admit it, it was HARD. I broke down a few times. It didn't seem to be working or paying off--very frustrating. But this morning made it all worth it :)

Fabulous Friday!

Why is today such a Fabulous Friday?

1) It's the start of a three-day weekend!
Granted, that may not mean much since we just had all that time off for the holidays, but I sure appreciate it. Going back to work is exhausting!

2) SNOW
Yesterday we got our first snowstorm of the season. It was sooo nasty in the commute to work yesterday morning but I made it...what's sad though is that I live literally five minutes from work and it took me a 1/2 hour to get to work yesterday! Roads were pretty good today, though. I know its hard to see because its dark, but I just ran outside and took a picture of the snow, lol! :

So sorry so hard to see! But off there to the left is a tree and if you look closely you can see the squirrel tracks in the snow hehe.

Happy New Year!

I hope everyone had a great holiday season. Hard to believe its over. I've been off work for so long now it really feels like a vacation (much-needed, too, by the way). I took another great picture of our tree so I had to share :)

Uber pretty, right?

Two of my favorite gifts this year were a pair of Hello Kitty footy pajamas and a dress form. I loveeee footy pajamas. They are so warm and comfy. Here's a picture of the dress form my hubby got for me:

Not sharing a photo of me in my footy pajamas :)

Christmas Trees 2011

We finally got our Christmas trees up and decorated. Yeah...we have two. In our last house, it was a very small house, so the tree we had was teeny but looked huge in that house. So whenever we moved into a house that was bigger with higher ceilings we decided to get a bigger tree but to keep the older one. So we have the big tree in our living room and the smaller tree in our dining room.

Tree #1 (original tree):

Tree #2 (newer, larger one):

Ta-da! So purty.

Happy Belated Thanksgiving!

Our outdoor autumn porch scene.

Hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving. Its been kind of a crazy one for us/me.

About our porch scene: this is what it looked like in tact a week ago. Now the squirrels have started in on the corn. I find that appropriate though, and am thankful they waited until we were getting ready to put up our Christmas decorations. We got the whole kit and kaboodle for $2.90 at the pumpkin patch so not bad at all.

What's your favorite Thanksgiving dessert? Mine is pumpkin roll---yum. Its always my job to bring the pumpkin roll and chocolate mints--so easy to make, too. I will have to share the recipes I use sometime.

Project complete: Repainting bathroom cabinet doors

Happily, we have a ton of storage in our main bathroom (very good for people like me who have a beauty product addiction). I decided we needed to change things up in there though and make it look classier and I think I succeeded. What do you think?


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Good day!

Good day, all! It's been a busy couple of weeks. I have been working on finishing up some projects around the house for the year so that I can enjoy the holidays and have more time to do what I enjoy most--holiday baking and crafting, oh my!

The time change this AM was perfect. Although I wish the cats knew what DST was because they tried to wake me up to feed them at their regular routine time. Oh, vell. Posting pictures later on of something I have been working on. Got some chores to work on and am working on clearing out my email inbox first.

Finally getting things done feels SO good.