Whooosh!!

You want to know what went really fast? The weekend. Whooosh!! So fast that I recall fragments by bits of color like green, orange, and chocolate brown.

Green:
I recall Friday in green due to a mouth-watering meal that Hubs and I ate at this place. I had fried green pickles served with a side of green goddess aioli as my appetizer. Yes, let me say it again--FRIED, and it was worth every. green. bite.

Orange:
Saturday brought me a little package that opened bursting with orange--a delicious orange tote, covered with pomegranate print. It is so beautifully made, and came as a giveaway win from this friend and blogger!! Thank you!!! The tote is now home to my growing blanket throw that I am still knitting (can anyone give me a hallelujah for knitting progress please??).

Chocolate brown:
Sunday was chocolate brown Hershey's bars and gooey, white, burnt melted marshmellow flanked by crispy honey graham crackers. It was s'mores, by the fire pit, with the neighbors, guilty as charged. (Watched Clue again recently, love that movie..)

Happy Monday

xoxo

Weekending with Amanda!!

Self soothe...

Images are what have been soothing my soul lately, images and a strong need to write. I sit down with a head full of words--then, as if by telepathic timing, suddenly both kids are up-- ready and wanting to start their day. Sometimes they can go off and do their own thing in the mornings, feed themselves breakfast, giving me reprieve to write more. Other days the boy is magnetically attached to my side asking questions or the girl is crawling into my lap and I can't see through her dark hair and big skull. Oh beautiful peace and elusive quiet--how I miss you most when I can't have you!!!!!

Deep breath...But that's alright. I tell myself to remove the thinking, and stay present. My time with them grows shorter by the day. Be mindful, stay grateful, and capture what you can. My time will come, sooner than I think...and then I will miss them and wonder where our time together has gone. Oh the irony....

Peace friends, I'm off to finish reading Peter Pan...

PS. Thank you to my lovely friend Jacinta from Embracing It All, for a sweet little giveaway I won recently...A pair of adorable handmade hair clips and the little felt mouse....thanks Jacinta--M. loves them :).