Project Unveiled

So this is what I've been doing lately.
Inspired by some of the home making journal's I have been seeing

around blog land, I decided to start one myself.
Here's how I'm doing it.
I just brows through old magazines
and if I see something I like, I rip it out.
I don't think too much about it;

Love it? Rip it.

It's really neat to go back and look at what I chose.
It definitely tells me something about myself.
So far?
I absolutely love nature and beautiful things... who doesn't?

After gaining a pile of ripped out pages about an inch thick
I sorted them all into seasons
and put them in separate folders
so that I could arrange them in order in my journal.
I want to start in January
recording little things that happen throughout my day.
Appointments, quotes, cute things the kids did or said,

romantic things from my hubby, etc.

Just a bit of my life recorded for history.

Would you like to do one too?

Let me know. I'd love to know who else is joining me
and it would be great to see some of your pages as well!

That's Why!

As I was going along today, thinking about a blog post I have been working on, I suddenly had a revelation about something. This is it:

The reason why I like getting "comments" so much is because... I am a "words of affirmation" girl! You know the book, "The Five Love Languages"? Well, I give love and feel love through words of affirmation! I always wondered why it was so important to me. Originally, when I started this blog it was simply for the purpose of keeping a bit of a record of my day to day life. I wasn't even sure whether I would give out my blog address to anyone. So why is it so important to me that people actually read what I write and then let me know if they like it? Well, that's why.... words of affirmation... I feel loved when I get good comments. Does that sound really lame? Probably. But that's just the way it is.

Now no pressure... I don't want you all to stop reading just because you're scared that every time you do I'll be expecting a comment. I understand that some don't think it's too important
because you have a different love language. Either that or you just don't love me! :( Just kidding! ;) I know you love me. So please don't ever leave a negative comment or I just might shut down the whole thing and call it quits!

So, there you have it. That's me!

And about that blog post I've been working on? Hopefully, I'll get it up tomorrow...

Psalm 1 by Memory

This is what Jayden and I have been working on for the past 7 weeks.

It's so special to be able to memorize scripture together.

He's very proud of himself so I told him I would put the video on the "computer" so that Auntie's and Oma's and whoever else is interested could see how well he's done.

Leave a comment... he's waiting to hear what you think! ;)

First Snowman of the Year!

Woke up this morning to this. 7:00am and the boys are asking to go outside. Gave them breakfast and then did this while they played around me.
Flipping through magazines (ripping out pages... more on the reason for this in another post) in my chair by the window with my favorite mug of coffee and my nice cozy sweater.

Glancing out the window at this...

Taking pictures of this.... Allan all bundled up...

Mr. Snowman created by ... Jayden...
And 10 minutes later...

Drying by the fire.

Doorways

" Between every two pines

is a doorway to a new world."

~John Muir

Took a leisurely ramble down to the pond yesterday morning

with my sister, her two littlest, and my three.

So glad we took the time to get outside in the fresh air

on what looks to have been the last warm day for a while.

I'm gonna have to get real creative with warm clothes

in order to keep this up through the cold prairie winters! ;)

Getting Outside

"It seems to me that we all

look at Nature too much,

and live with her too little."

~Oscar Wilde

So... Inspired by the chapter "kids... beyond the backyard" in this book, we set out as a family yesterday afternoon to the lake for a stroll through "the wild".

The weather was beautiful for this time of year (19 c) and I was all excited, thinking that even though it may get a little chilly towards evening I would just bundle the children real well with warm coats and even brought along mittens just in case!

Low and behold, when we got to the lake, I proceeded to get out the coats and found that I had forgotten Allan's coat in the stack I had taken!

Well, we decided we'd just have to make do and so Marcus' coat went on Allan, Jayden's coat went on Marcus, Daddy's coat went on Jayden and Daddy?... well, Daddy just had to freeze, that was all there was to it. First we took a trail along the side of the lake.


When I wasn't carrying Allan...We were doing this.

We we got back from our walk we made a fire and roasted wieners. Then a rousing game of tag with all five of us, a big pile of leaves for jumping in and burying each other and a ramble through the trees in the twilight looking for sticks to put on the fire.

We drove home through the dark with the boys falling asleep in the back seat...

So thankful to have made these beautiful memories of crisp Autumn moments.

One of those days???

We had a wonderful fun time at the Harvest Fair last night.

BUT...

The first words I heard this morning as I was somewhere between dreamland and reality were, "Dad, Jayden... he just pulled my ear really, really hard."

Oh no, is it gonna be one of those kinds of days???

(Not to mention the fact that they'll be all sugared up on the candy they got.)

Thankfully hubby got up to deal with them so that I could avoid the day a little longer under the covers.

Maybe I could just hide out today? Ummm... not gonna work... I'll just have to make the best of it.

Plan on having a "home day" and early to bed tonight.

Hope you all have a good weekend!