Happy Monday

It’s going to be a good week. I can feel it. Life here is picking up speed. There is more to do, more people to meet, more to tick off the to do list. It’s good, this getting speeding up, because I don’t think I was built for slow. I love to be doing, to…

Thankful Thursday

As each day comes to us refreshed and anew, so does my gratitude renew itself daily. The breaking of the sun over the horizon is my grateful heart dawning upon a blessed world. ~Terri Guillemets Today I am thankful… …for the opportunity to write and research and learn as I do. …for an evening at…

brand new

Throw away yesterday. Today is a brand new day – Sia In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. – Khalil Gibran A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by…

on dancing

Image via pinterest I’m standing in the kitchen, mixing together the ingredients for pecan butterscotch cookies. I am wearing my work clothes still – torn jeans and one of Rasmus’ old t-shirts – from earlier in the afternoon when I was painting our newly-built desk. My hair is in desperate need of a wash and…

Monday

I’m in a bit of a funk this morning. I am tired and a bit emotional. There’s lots to do and I don’t want to do any of it. This is the morning I looked for the laundry basket and realised it was still down in the laundry room waiting for me to collect the…

sunrise

One of the benefits of these short days during winter, is that I get to see the sunrise every morning. At the moment it appears around half past eight, just when I’ve said goodbye to Rasmus and kissed him out the door, and taken the remains of my breakfast into the study to start my…