Yippppeeee! After a whole week (2 weeks ago) of Elizabeth being sick, then Emma having that awful flu, Elizabeth came home from school yesterday with a 103 fever!!! I am really hoping this is it for the winter. My poor Lizzie. So, while she went to bed for several hours, I decided to take it upon myself to rearrange the entire downstairs. I was really hoping that Conan wouldn't come home until it was finished, but since it's now the following day and still not done, oh well! He never cares, but I just hate the thought of him at work all day and coming home to complete chaos! He's so used to my wacky design stuff that he just ordered sushi and picked it up for us while I cleared off a few feet of space on the kitchen table. That dinner was way better than the scrambled eggs I was considering... So, all is well... except for Elizabeth. We are really praying that she will beat it today; she was selected to sing in a small group for a choral festival tomorrow in Harrisburg and she really needs to be there...
Conan took Emma to a very lovely daddy-daughter event on Tuesday night at church and they ate a delicious dinner that the girls had all prepared ahead of time (spinach manicotti) and then the Bishop taught them how to waltz! They had these beautiful corsages and boutineers that an extremely creative leader made for everyone and they enjoyed it immensely!
With all the ups and downs of daily life, I am just happy to have so many blessings. That is what I reflect upon when it gets a little hairy around here. I was at Barnes and Noble yesterday doing a little design research (sinking into one of those comfy chairs they have for people like me who just go there to read, not buy!) and reading out of super talented, Celerie Kemble's book. I love her design philosophy in combining as many textures as possible to create a beautiful space that is also for living in- for real-life living, not what we want other people to think that we live like. So many of those magazine rooms look like no one could ever actually live there! Do they have family pictures? Anyway, it helps me to stay grounded knowing that life is what it is and I really just have to find contentment in it right now, not waiting for the better things ahead, but still able to draw upon that wellspring of HOPE that exists deep down somewhere... too much philosophy... I'm going to check on my sickie!
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Monday, November 2, 2009
Happy Fall!
I am really an awful blogger... Oh well, I try! (kind of)
Halloween was weird at our house this year. I stayed up way too late the night before working on my new website (refreshdesignnow.com- check it out!), and Christian and his friend stayed up until like 4 in the morning... So we all kind of slept in on Saturday! I made scary jack-o-lantern face pancakes with chocolate chips (yum), and by the time we got our yard work and stuff done, it was time for Conan and Christian to go with friends down to Annapolis for the Navy game. They had a great time, even though Navy lost by 3 points...
Just about the time that Elizabeth got her costume together for trick-or-treating with friends, it started raining!!! NOOOOOOOO! It was reminiscent of our Halloweens in Seattle... So, she went with her friends (three of them as 80's girls- scary, and 3 in pajamas) and Emma and I went to McDonalds! (New tradition, I guess). Emma got her bumble bee costume on and we braved the weather armed with umbrellas! Since Emma had just gotten over her week long stint with the swine flu (icky), she was pretty tired after about the 4th house! She braved it out for two whole streets though... "must get candy"... We came home, changed out of our soggy clothes and watched Food Network- haunted house/cake and candy competition! So, no pumpkin carving this year which was totally out of the norm! It was so laid back...
The biggest news is that a fabulous friend of mine and I, after talking about it for several months, took the plunge and started our re-design business! We are so excited about it! She is super talented and amazing and I am just compulsive about design, so we fit together perfectly as business partners! We have one client lined up already, and one potential client! It's a little scary, but also just feels right, for both of us. We were delivering post cards on doors on Friday and looked at each other and cracked up... like, "what are we doing?"! It's great! So, on to new challenges and an adventure... I'm in love with the fall leaves, by the way- breathtaking here in southern PA!
Halloween was weird at our house this year. I stayed up way too late the night before working on my new website (refreshdesignnow.com- check it out!), and Christian and his friend stayed up until like 4 in the morning... So we all kind of slept in on Saturday! I made scary jack-o-lantern face pancakes with chocolate chips (yum), and by the time we got our yard work and stuff done, it was time for Conan and Christian to go with friends down to Annapolis for the Navy game. They had a great time, even though Navy lost by 3 points...
Just about the time that Elizabeth got her costume together for trick-or-treating with friends, it started raining!!! NOOOOOOOO! It was reminiscent of our Halloweens in Seattle... So, she went with her friends (three of them as 80's girls- scary, and 3 in pajamas) and Emma and I went to McDonalds! (New tradition, I guess). Emma got her bumble bee costume on and we braved the weather armed with umbrellas! Since Emma had just gotten over her week long stint with the swine flu (icky), she was pretty tired after about the 4th house! She braved it out for two whole streets though... "must get candy"... We came home, changed out of our soggy clothes and watched Food Network- haunted house/cake and candy competition! So, no pumpkin carving this year which was totally out of the norm! It was so laid back...
The biggest news is that a fabulous friend of mine and I, after talking about it for several months, took the plunge and started our re-design business! We are so excited about it! She is super talented and amazing and I am just compulsive about design, so we fit together perfectly as business partners! We have one client lined up already, and one potential client! It's a little scary, but also just feels right, for both of us. We were delivering post cards on doors on Friday and looked at each other and cracked up... like, "what are we doing?"! It's great! So, on to new challenges and an adventure... I'm in love with the fall leaves, by the way- breathtaking here in southern PA!
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