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Week in the Life: Sunday

 
I'm Thankful for  sons and a daughter who bless my life.

 
I'm Thankful for my life-

 
I'm Thankful for Music-

I'm Thankful for the scriptures-

 
 I'm Thankful for a Beautiful world....even when it's brown and not Green.

 

I'm Thankful for a lovely place to worship as I wish....with my Family.   I'm Thankful for a loving Husband.

I'm Thankful for left overs from yesterdays dinner-

 I'm Thankful for a late Sunday afternoon nap on the sofa & lazy boy chair.

Tonight I was thankful for time to talk  to kids.

It's been a great Sunday/ week-

Happy Day

 

 

 

Week in the Life- Saturday

Eating-

 
Working-

 
Playing-

 
Crawling - 

 
Amazing-

 

Visiting-

 

Treasure Hunting-

 
 
 

Swimming-

 

 
Entertaining-

 

"This is our one and only chance at mortal life—here and now. The longer we live, the greater is our realization that it is brief. Opportunities come, and then they are gone. I believe that among the greatest lessons we are to learn in this short sojourn upon the earth are lessons that help us distinguish between what is important and what is not. I plead with you not to let those most important things pass you by as you plan for that illusive and nonexistent future when you will have time to do all that you want to do. Instead, find joy in the journey—now."   

 Pres. Thomas S. Monson

Week In the Life: Friday

 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 

Week In the Life: Thursday

 
6:30 am

 All this week as I've been documenting the "normal" of my life....These words of a Primary song keep coming to my mind-

My life is a gift; my Life has a plan. My Life has a purpose; in heaven it began.

My choice was to come to this lovely home on earth and seek for God's light to direct me from birth.

I will follow God's plan for me...Holding fast to his word and his love.     I will work, and I will pray; I will always walk in his way.  Then I will be happy on earth and in my home above.

I really do feel my life is a gift-

Cuteness from yesterday- a little 8 year old cub scout {whom I didn't know before} saw me at camp....got a big smile on his face waved and then came over and gave me a hug....like I had been gone for a long while. {at first I thought he had me confused with someone else when I asked him if he was looking for someone he just said..."you".} I then walked  him to his Den....  Sweet. {I'm not  sure he even knows my name}

Today-

good bye to Danny- then scriptures.

yoga  for 45min...just to be able to move. {everything gets locked into place over night.}

Breakfast- slim fast chocolate drink.

Walked- just the property...checking water lines.

Laundry- two loads.

 
Walked in here to do some major organizing and to rid the pantry of out of date items.....nope not  happening today....thought I was in the mood...but I was wrong....saving this for another day. {because that's the way I roll. =} 

 
Cub Scout receipts piling up- so far

• 160 lbs of ice
• 15 pizzas
• 20 black sunglasses
• 50 ice cream bars
• photo prints
• 4 rolls of masking tape

As many of you know, I hate to be in pictures.....but part of the assignment for this project "Week In the Life" was to include more pictures of ourselves.....to document yes, I was there.  =)  

Ali Edwards words-

Your story is important. No matter who you are, what you do, your family structure, etc – the story you are living right now is important and worth documenting. I’m one of those people who totally wishes I had this sort of documentation before we had kids, when I was in college, etc. Life situations change so quickly and the things you think are part of your “normal” right now may not be all too soon.

I totally agree- I wish, I wish....

 

 

 
 

Day three- Day Camp-  2- 8pm

 

 

 
11:01 pm

Good Night- 

Week in the Life: Wednesday

Good Morning dishes-

Good Morning walk-

Good Morning Weeds-

Good morning Ironing-

Good morning pool-

 

"Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?"  It's a wonderful Life-

Good Morning shadow-

 

Alas! Must it ever be so?
Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go,
And fight our own shadows forever?
-Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton



 Hello Cub Scout Day Camp- Day 2.... 2pm-8:30pm

 
Dropping eggs from 50 feet

 
-Country and Honor-

 

Very good day at camp-

Hello Bed.
 

Week In the Life: Tuesday

 
Started the day out just like I did yesterday.......  

 then this morning I steamed cleaned my floors.

Picked flowers for the bathroom- they last about 3 days.

 
Watering plants and drowning gophers.

Wrote a few notes- {on these cute cards that Bree made.} 

 
Pinterest, oh how I love thee.....but holy cow, you can take up my time if I'm not careful!   So much "goodness" so little time. {try it out pinterest.com}

Found this on Paige's board- Words of Wisdom

"High-school is not a time to find your groom, it's a time to find your bridesmaids."

 
Also pinned this---S'mores  you bake in a jar- From my sister Pam. 

 

Shopping- 60 lbs of ice

20 black sunglasses

milk

soap

Cub Scout Day Camp: 1-8pm  {made it through day one}

 

 

Quote from Emerson:

"Finish each day and be done with it.  You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can.  tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

 

 

Week in the Life: Monday

 Up with the sun-

Happenings before lunch-

The pile of stuff I put on the kitchen island....so Danny won't forget  them.

 

 

 

 

 

 
If I'm not going into work with Danny- I stand at the garage and wave good-bye, even when we are apart for a few hours...I miss him. (sappy, silly, sorry...=)

 
Daily reading and pills.

Chores-

 
Pretty much everyday I-

• Pick up from the night before.
• make my bed
• dishes
• sweep
• follow my 5 minute rule- do something quick in each room...it's pretty easy to spot clean a bathroom in 5 min {...we are empty Nester's so we don't always use all our home.}

 
Visited with Mason before his first day at his new job, he seemed excited.   I know he will do well....one talent Mason has is that he is always happy, and he sees the good in everyone.

 He sits this way when we talk....and his foot is always tapping....is that a good thing? =)

 
Did some laundry

received a tip....

 

 
Tried to do something with my hair-

 
Checking my email and working on my blog-

-Lunch from our garden-

 

After Lunch

Put on my green shoes and headed for the garden- Lovely outfit....don't you think?

Worked in the garden for a few hours.

 
Get to visit this temperature or higher many times a day... Oh the joy of being a woman of a certain age.  {highest I've hit 105...it's like a game....ha-ha, what's your score?}

 
texting & phone calls.....    Tried to have a conversation with one of our Spanish sisters on the phone....she knows as much English as I know Spanish....I found myself talking slower and louder....what's up with that?   Truly sorry about that.

 

All this week I will be documenting the imperfect "normalness" of my life- got the idea from here  and Shannon

Why do this?- this quote says it best.

From Anna Quindlen:

"....but the biggest mistake I made is the one that most of us make while doing this.  I did not live in the moment enough.  This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs.  There is one picture of the three of them sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages 6, 4, and 1.   And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night.  I wish I had not been in a hurry to get on to the next things: dinner, bath, book, bed.  I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting done a little less."

I hurried way too fast through life while the children were growing - I can't bring those moments back ...... but I can be better today.

 

{I didn't drive once today.... which is so weird;  it really was a pretty quiet day.}

 

 

Week In the Life: Idea

I was looking through pinterest {if you haven't joined you really should so many ideas, so little time. I can send you an invite if you would like...just let me know}  Well, anyways.... Shannon shared this idea  from Ali Edwards on pinterest....and I thought I might give it a try.

 

  

Helps for documenting simple everyday details of your life with photos and words.  I'm not much good when it comes to scrap-booking....but thought I would give it a go on my blog. { each year I print  out my blog in book/scrapbook form ...correction Shannon turns my blog into a book   =)     So with that in mind I like to make sure and add little details that may be forgotten.

 

I think it may be fun-

Week In the Life: 2011

July 25-31st

Join me in documenting the imperfect normalness of our existence.

Happy Day-

 

 

Blue Friday-

Not my mood;  but loving this color.

I've started to collect these "blue" jars.....if you see them somewhere give me a heads up.  =)

Also,   these painted jars are inspiring me.....I think they would be fabulous as centerpieces. {I'm  saving my glass bottles from now on..... I see  these in my  future.   ;)

 

 Here's how Martha Stewart says to make them-

 

Enameled Bottle How-To
Dishwasher-safe enamel paint is sold at most crafts stores. Wash the bottle inside and out with soapy water; let dry. Pour in a small amount of the paint's surface conditioner, which primes the glass for the enamel. Swirl to coat fully, then pour out excess. Stand bottle upright, and dry for an hour. Pour in enough enamel to easily coat the inside. Swirl, and return excess to container for reuse. Dry bottle upside down on a paper towel for 48 hours, periodically wiping excess enamel from the rim with a damp cloth during the first hour.

Quiet Monday-

 

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

-Henry David Thoreau

 

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. . . spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order. – Susan L. Taylor

 

We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart… and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together…. I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude. – Helen Hayes

 

"In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't.  Be wise and don't let things crowd out those that are essential."

- Elder Richard G. Scott