love coming home….

So the last three days I have been quite the blog junkie. There aren’t that many blogs I check on a normal basis, but the other day a friend had a link to another blog  - so I checked it out. And I fell in LOVE with the blog and then began to click on all the blogs that blogger followed, and thus got myself caught in a trap.

But tonight I found a very inspiring blog lovecominghome.wordpress.com  The blogger is a designer who focuses not only on loving the home you’ve made, but also the relationships that are in the home.  All the time I’ve wasted on blog surfing I now feel is justified just in finding this one blog.

And in honor of her blog I’m setting a table and two chairs out on our porch. My husband is coming home from a sleep study tomorrow morning and just maybe we’ll get the chance to have breakfast out on the porch together. I’m making a choice, seizing a moment and creating a home my husband loves coming home to….  Great way to end the day.

exercises – body, mind, and soul….

Well, here I find myself once again in our cozy little apartment. Although this past week has been anything but cozy due to the cold. I find myself bundled up in sweatpants and sweatshirts, wrapped in blankets and drinking 3-5 hot drinks a day. I think our San Antonio apartment just wasn’t made for the cold.

After a week of staying warm, inventing dinners and feeling quite sick, I feel as though I’m on the upside of things and I’ve been considering what would be a good use of my time. I came to the conclusion that my mind and body are in much need of exercise and that my heart, while it has needed a rest, could now use some uplifting thoughts and growth.  So instead of slowly passing the time meandering from thing to thing as I do every  morning, today I ate my breakfast accompanied by the Bible, My Utmost for His Highest and Hannah Whitall Smith. Great company for breakfast, I must admit. And I had a journal along for the ride to jot down any thoughts (quotes really) that struck me. A few weeks ago I was asked to begin gathering my thoughts over the next 6 months for a speaking engagement , and the journal is where all those thoughts will be going.

And after breakfast, I spent quite a bit of time on brain puzzles, which proved to me that my brain was definitely out of shape. haha. I’m hoping to write an article on some research I did a year ago, and that is my motivation to get my mind working like it used to.

As for the rest of the day, I have some good cleaning to do and dinner to make like always, and I’ll be pulling out Insanity at some point to get my butt back in to shape…. but it feels good to be striving for something once again.

And once last lingering thought…….last night on a drive with my husband we passed a very intriguing culinary school – something I’ll be looking into for the summer….