Thursday, November 29, 2007

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

every year autumn seems to come and go so fast. Just when i'm enjoying throwing on a scarf asnd sweater to keep me warm...the weather changes, the leaves all fall and it's winter coat time.

i'm stubborn though, and i continue to wear peeptoe shoes with bare feet and only a scarf looped around my neck for warmth. i dont like to admit to myself that my favorite time of year has come and gone so quickly.
but then the day comes, the saturday after thanksgiving, when we bundle up and drive an hour away to cut down our christmas tree. it's become a yearly tradition, since curtis and i began dating...and long before as well.

my family has always hauled the tree out of the basement and pieced it together year after year, bent the branches to just the right shape.
but not his family. it wasn't christmas without a live tree...and so, i adopted the tradition, at first half heartedly...but now i think of it as just as much our tradition as i was his family's growing up.

This year we were set on finding a tree from the $20 area...
those are the trees they're trying to clear out to plant new ones.
needless to say, i'm not the only one that's stubborn, so we walked for miles and miles, two hours worth of nitpicking and bickering about which tree was dead, dying, too thin, to tall...until we found the tree.
but it didn't have the blue ribbon on it, it had a polka dotted one that we soon learned meant it cost a whopping $49.95.
i felt like it was worth it, the perfect shape, perfect height, the perfect tree for our first christmas in our new house...
well, i was the only one that felt this way...
he won and we found a lovely, but i dare say, not by any means perfect, $20 discount tree.

so now it's christmas in our house,and we are attempting to keep the holiday sacred despite the greed, selfishness and business. we are having to remind ourselves time and again that it's not about us, but Him. he was born, he died and he rose.
for us, but it's all about him.





Tuesday, November 20, 2007

a week in review

here is the past week in review...

~i learned how to sew with the help of my mom
~made eggplant parmesan
~am reading Love in the Time of Cholera
~went on a date with my hub to Cafe Tandor
~fabric shopping with my mom
~murder mystery business dinner for nestle
~did my big monthly grocery shop
~started putting together my christmas wishlist for curtis' parents
~asking for this and this and this so far...
~now i'm watching my new favorite show, "John & Kate Plus 8" on TLC when curtis is at class...

Thursday, November 8, 2007

facelift

i gave my blog a little revamp today.
i decided yesterday that i needed a change.
it was easier than i thought it would be.
kate emailed me this free template site.
since i've had this blog i have only written on it when i felt like i had something deep or inspirational to say or i had to vent about something,
it was never really fun for me, but it was something i felt like i should do as a writer.
now for some reason it's fun. all of a sudden it's a pleasure for me to sign in every night, an array of ideas are swirling around in my head of posts i can't wait to write...
now, it's not a chore, but a vital outlet for me to express myself,
an i'm excited about what i feel i'm finally ready to explore about myself.

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Mea's First Haircut...



...boy oh boy was it a haircut...
i got home today and didn't even recognize her...
the groomer said that not having a haircut for the first seven months of her life
just turned all her hair into a giant dread lock...so she had to shave her shorter than she would've liked...
curtis thinks she's ugly but i think she's beautiful!

Monday, November 5, 2007

Some of my favorite things...

i love autumn and i'm finally getting to the point where i love my house as well...
here are some things that i love right now...

haven't used it yet, but i already feel my creative juices flowing-


my purple purse- up against my green kitchen wall



i had to throw a mea photo in here...here she is tonight - lathargic and nervous about her early morning haircut tomorrow.



here is my dining room window with the new tree curtains i got from urban...also notice my chandelier...



a close-up on my new curtains...



my other urban outfitters curtains



the fake pumpkin i bought after the squirrels devoured my real ones



my front door...i spent hours stripping and sanding and priming and painting it...i love it and my wreath



i heard it was going to snow tonight...that makes me sad because it's just now starting to feel like autumn.

photos of my favorites




so i'm learning with this blogger thing, and from now on, these posts are going to be so much more interactive...
with the help of Kate...and Cale i learned how to create links...
and with the help of well, myself i finally got around to figuring out how to upload photos...

so here you are...an introduction to my gorgeous family...Curtis and Mea...
sidenote, the next time i post, Mea will have gotten her first haircut...tomorrow at 8:20 am...she won't look so hippy chic crazy!

inspiration

lately i've been enjoying the wonderful world of style blogs...
maybe because i've had no time to be creative myself...
these blogs connect me to the greater style community.

my three favorites right now are...

poppytalk
perfectbound
kirin notebook

i must say however, that i got home from work inspired to finally bust out the sewing machine i got for my birthday ... in may.
i took it out of the box, out of the styrofome, set it up, plugged in the foot pedal and then realized i have no string...
so now it sits next to me at the dining room table, shiny and new
waiting for me to make a trip to joann to buy string.or bobbins. or whatever they're called.

i guess for now i'll just have to browse my new favorite blogs, and wish i had more time to create...

Sunday, November 4, 2007

autumn sunday

today was the most beautiful autumn sunday...
i woke up at nine fifteen to curtis reminding me that it was really eight fifteen...thanks to "fall back"
-so nice to wake up rested, not feeling like i was running late.
we ended up making it to the early service at church...
it was nice getting out of church at 11, feeling like we had the whole day ahead of us. why don't we do that every sunday?
from church we drove to miles market which is just what it sounds like... a fresh produce market, where i bought
tart apples, an eggplant, and fixings for homemade chicken lettuce wraps, and twenty five dollars more worth of fresh
fruits and veggies.
i've been on a cooking/baking frenzy this weekend.
we didnt have much planned for the weekend, so i woke up saturday morning and decided to make an apple crisp with homemade oatmeal/granola topping and two loaves of pumpkin bread.
tonight we decided to forgoe dinner out and i made chicken enchiladas, dirty rice and sauteed corn with sweet red onions.
our impromptu mexican fiesta was just what we needed after an afternoon of "gardening" - back to earlier this afternoon...
so after miles market we came home and decided to take out the dead bushes, shrubs and small white stones that pepper our front garden...
it took four hours, five people and a borrowed roto-tiller to make the ground ripe for planting grass.
right now it's just a large dirt area, but i see the potential, and the dirt ground excites me.
it was nice to get dirty, feel the earth between my fingers, albeit, my gloved fingers, but nice nonetheless.
then we had a little puppy drama, she must've eaten something outside while we were working, because we look over and she's throwing up and having diahrea on the front grass...
so i then lovingly gave one nasty bath to a very stinky dog...and then blowdryed the little shivering ball of dripping pooch...
and then that brings me to dinner.
and now i'm sitting, watching the struggling browns with my amazing sweats-clad husband and my lathargic mea, waiting for my inlaws to come over and share the apple crisp and vanilla ice cream with us.
it's been a good weekend. good weather, good food and good company...what more could a girl ask for?

 
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