Good morning beautiful Friends! ☀️
I hope your week has been starting great so far. 💛 And that you had a wonderful weekend. It was a fun and very productive one here. Matt & I went up to the lake to open things up and clean and get ready for his folks to come stay for the summer. They usually come up by around this time of year...but due to their health issues recently, and some test results they have to wait on until the end of the month ... they won't be coming up from AZ until June.
When we got back on Sunday we took a couple mile walk with Ruby in the lovely sunshine. Everything has gotten so green here and the daffs are up and the flowering trees starting to bloom. 🌸😍
It's so wonderful to feel summer right around the corner!
*PS: thank you so much for all of the kind words on my last post. I think those treasured memories are forever a gift...no matter how things ended up. I appreciate the love and support so much when I share things from the depth of my heart.
THE WEATHER OUTSIDE IS:
ON THE BREAKFAST PLATE THIS MORNING:
I was naughty this AM and ended my fast early at 13 &1/2 hrs instead of 16 hrs, because Matt had to take his truck in early for an oil change and I picked him up...and he then suggested we get dunkin donuts. So we split some bagel bite yummies and a blueberry donut. 😋 But we're going to walk several miles again today! That makes it like it never happened, right? 😁
ON MY TO DO LIST THIS WEEK:
senior party meeting at Annie's school, lunch with a former co-worker from my hospice world, groceries for Mother's Day gathering here & celebration of Annie's bday, some other errands including hope to get my hanging baskets, hospice work
THINKING ABOUT:
A beautiful day is predicted here for Mother's Day and I hope it will happen so we can sit out and enjoy the deck when family is over.
AS I LOOK AROUND THE HOUSE
Sun is streaming in the windows. I've finally taken down all of the bunnies and Spring decorations that were still up. I've been dusting and cleaning this AM and plan to get out some summer decorations today.
CURRENTLY READING
magazines currently
ON THE TV TODAY:
Jeopardy, Call the Midwife, LPBW, The Good Wife, The Good Doctor, The Rookie, Grey's Anatomy, Survivor, Ghosts, Shark Tank, When Calls the Heart
ON THE MENU THIS WEEK:
MONDAY - clean out the fridge leftovers
TUESDAY - alpine beef, mushroom & swiss baguettes w/ arugula salad (HF meal)
WEDNESDAY - one pan mango salsa pork tacos (HF meal)
THURSDAY - garlic butter steak & eggs with truffle parm potatoes
FRIDAY - maybe out for dinner? or throw something on the grill?
TO RELAX THIS WEEK I WILL:
read in the sunshine, go for walks
TIPS OR SOMETHING TO SHARE:
FROM THE CAMERA:
Finally finished this cross-stitch for one of my Mom's gifts this weekend. Love the green heart that runs around it all to be part of the "vine" with the green leaves.
daffodils fully bloomed :)
First thing when we open the cottage is to take down all of the sheets that hang in the windows for the winter. Let the beautiful sunshine in everywhere.
I need to bring one of Annie's grads up for the lake. Love that Matt's Mom has my future graduate pic with her baby's grad pic 😊💕
As a Mother's Day gifts, we get Matt's Mom flowering hanging baskets for the hooks on the trees out the big window. So we obviously haven't done that yet. But we did hang up all of her cute bright windsock hangings.
boats will be in soon!
The peepers were out up at the lake - and almost a deafening chorus. It was pure sounds of summer! 🐸 💚 Take a listen:
