Such Thankfulness

Wow, okay so I totally missed doing my Thankful Thursday post last week! It was not due to not being able to post, but more like I had no idea what to say that day. Reason being that life can really throw some curve balls at times! Not that I would normally post about something like this on a "crafty-ness" blog, but I will go ahead and throw it out there anyway. Last week was a little scary for me. I had to have a biopsy, not so fun, and then had to wait for results. Of course. Yes, the dreaded "C" word was of course looked for, however, I am happy to report that results are in and I do not have cancer! Whew! There are still other concerns, but none I will go in to detail about here. SO, naturally, I am so very thankful for my life and the time God has given me to spend with my family. This week has been a lot about focusing on the more simple things in life and how easily we can just look right over them, or even get annoyed at the seemingly mundane tasks of every day life. It's easy to do so, but sometimes I think it's really important to just enjoy it, knowing the little ones grow so very fast and you just never know how much time you ever really do have.

So, I hope all are having a great week and making sure to take a moment here and there to just enjoy it, whatever it may be.

Happy Thursday!

The color orange

This was fun! Jess over at How about orange had a great post about this, so I went on over and took the quiz myself. These would be the results:

You Are Cameo

You are understanding and very empathetic. You don't tend to have acquaintances. Everyone is your friend. And all of your friends tend to be friends. You have a knack for bringing very different people together.

What Color Orange Are You?

Seems like a nice color to be. I'll go with it for now....

Happy Tuesday to you!

Oops!

So when did Thursday suddenly turn into Saturday??? Hello, where have I been?! Well, obviously my "Thankful Thursday" post must have gotten lost in, uhm, blogesphere (is there such a thing?) somewhere! Yuppers. That's what happened.
Anyhoo...I am very thankful for many things however, one of which is a new waffle recipe I have tweaked from a family favorite of four generations. Waffles, in our house anyway, are somewhat a traditional Saturday morning deal for us. My son LOVES them and so does my Husband. I like them too, but I have this aweful thing called PCOS and it can wreak havoc on being able to have normal-ish meals with family and friends. Well, I can eat whatever normal-ish is, but then I end up with some not so great side-effects. SO, I decided to try something a little different and tweak our waffles a bit and amazingly enough, they were actually good! Yummy even! I substituted Almond Meal flour for reg. flour and added a little Flax meal. I cannot remember all else I did, but it basically made it a lower-carb, healthier version of waffles. Thankfully I have written it down for next time. I will say, the batter frightened me a bit, but they made up really well. The true test came for when the monkey boy took a taste......wahoo! Didn't even notice the flax in it and loved 'em just as much as the others. Whew! Now, I can enjoy waffle Saturdays together with my family! And for that, I am thankful.

Hope you all have a fantastic weekend!

Who, me?

Okay, so I can be such a doofu sometimes! I, like many (maybe?) people do, have a few email accounts. Okay, so three, but only use two. However, instead of trying to remember to check all of them and which ones, I have them forwarded to one, so it keeps me mostly on top of things. Well. SO I thought! Apparently I did not have one all correctly forwarding and on a whim checked it, ya know, to make sure I didn't miss something. Hello! So glad I did. A wonderful fellow blogger, bigbucketgirl, sent me a super nice message and left me a sweet little surprise on her blog! Here is what it is:





I am so honored! Thank you! Now, for me to share the love and my picks are:

PamperingBeki

The Wooden Spool

The Vintage Pearl

A Little More

Confessions of a Craft Addict

Okay, I cannot remember exactly how many others I am to pick, so I am going to leave it at that. Hope that's okay. Like I said, I am a doofus at times.....

quietness

I feel like I am at my own private cafe here at home. We just got some new barstools for our kitchen. It took us a while to finally find some we really liked that were just simple, basic and versatile. We also got them on clearance so that was a nice perk. They are comfy and I like that the style of them allows for me to make slipcovers for them if I decided to in the future. So, here I am sitting in the kitchen on one of our new barstools, just enjoying a little quiet of the day. It's really lovely weather here today. Slightly overcast, but a gentle cool breeze blowing and just lovely. A nice change from the weekend of humidity so thick and climbing temperatures in the 90's. Granted by this time next week it's supposed to be more like that type of hot and humid icky-ness again, but for the time being I am just gonna enjoy the nice quiet morning I am having drinking my coffee, checking some email, blogging a bit and simply relaxing for a minute or two before I am off to pick up Monkey boy from pre-school.

Hope everyone else is enjoying a little moment today as well before going back to the daily grind.

Happy Wednesday!

Thankful Thursday

Here's a little of a random conversation that took place in my car this week:

"Mom?"

"yes."

"know what's better than juice?"

"what's that?"

"chocolate milk"

"really? wow."

A few moments later...

"you know what's better than chocolate milk?"

"what?"

"you and daddy"

"Is that so? Wow, that's really something"

How cool is that? That is my "Thankful Thursday" this week - That I win out over chocolate milk! :)

Whatta Week!

Is it really already Wednesday? Wow, this week has gone by so very, very fast! It was a pleasant holiday weekend here just relaxing and attempting to reorganize my craft room....HA! I think I made a bigger mess. I have big plans for it like re-painting and all, but it didn't happen this past long weekend for us. Too many other things, like swimming and playing games with the litte one before he headed back to pre-school. Which, he started Tuesday. I sadly have no great pics of the official first day. It was yucky and rainy and he just was not in a picture taking mood. He did have a great day though and loves his new teacher. I do too.

Meanwhile, I am planning and crafting and working on some new designs I plan to debut a little later on this year. We'll see. I am excited about them and cannot wait to get them all complete and up in my Etsy shop. So many ideas, so little time to get them accomplished!

Happy Wednesday All!