January 8, 2012

Home from Mass this morning, nursing various illnesses...at this point we've had so many different things over the past two months I'm starting to loose track. And to add to the list, I'm suspicious that my boys (who pretty much share a pillow) have pink eye....oh joy. We've had a hard enough time making it to Mass with Joe being gone (for work, long term, it sucks but we've mostly adjusted), but with so many germs in our house already I made the command decision to just stay home this week. No one wants us to share, and we can't risk catching anything else!! So, a nice quite day at home it is...we started with me making some of the sorriest pancakes I've made in my life...no pictures of those (on purpose). The rest of the day holds lots of laundry, perhaps a bit of baking, lots of potty training, and hopefully much more of this....

 Too sick for church (viral bronchitis anyone?), but never too sick to wear a tutu!

A wee bit of knitting for a wee new baby, finished pictures coming soon!

Me, my four amazing sisters and my perfectly splendid Mommy

(Left to right) Me, Elaine, Mommy, Eliza, Zelie, Olivia....I think we're a pretty cute bunch. ;-)

Sunday Rest

"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."

~William Morris

This is my motto right now, and I'm having such fun! My house looks like a tornado has struck, but I know it will all start to fall into place soon. I've been getting rid of so much stuff; I'm not exactly a minimalist, but I am determined to cut things down until there is only what there is room for. Empty spaces might even be a good thing for a while. ;) I'll be sharing pictures in a week or two as things get finished up. I'm very excited to get to show off the pretty and practical spaces that I'm clearing and creating. So many good, positive, and necessary changes are being put into action around here these days...a new schedule is about finalized, complete with new routines and household management plans. Oh, it will be wonderful! I am one of those people who really do best with just the right amount of structure, not so much that I never get to be creative, but enough that all of the regular things are built into a fixed rhythm. My kids do too, and I have really been dropping the ball in this area lately. I think that the new rhythms will help with some of the sleeping problems going around here these days (Jenny and myself), I always sleep better when my mind and body can learn to depend on routines. I have allot of "OCD" and "ADHD" tendencies, so being able to count on the events of the next day really helps me. All the more reason to create a comfy cocoon of rhythm and order. :)

Sunday Rest

The only place where housework comes before needlework is in the dictionary. ~Mary Kurtz

(P.S. I will be back this week! Last week was very long and very tired, but I have lots for this week! Thanks for understanding.)

Sunday Rest

(photo taken by Bitty)

"Leaves"

- Elsie N. Brady

How silently they tumble down

And come to rest upon the ground

To lay a carpet, rich and rare,

Beneath the trees without a care,

Content to sleep, their work well done,

Colors gleaming in the sun.

At other times, they wildly fly

Until they nearly reach the sky.

Twisting, turning through the air

Till all the trees stand stark and bare.

Exhausted, drop to earth below

To wait, like children, for the snow.