Thoughts from an Extrovert

I refuse to only blog about being married. I refuse. 

But I have to say, being married has taught me some really interesting things. Or maybe it's just been the past year and a half that have taught me a lot of interesting things and I've just happened to be married in that time. 

I am an extrovert. I knew this. But I never realized how much. 

Example, I was home all day yesterday by myself and the day before. When Isaac came home I was a hot mess. Seriously. I am never spending that much time alone again. 

I've always thought I liked being alone. But it turns out I like hanging out with myself...if that makes any sort of sense at all. I'm still interacting with a person. Journaling. Writing music. Dreaming about my future kitchen. 

I sound like Rachel from Friends when she was dating herself. But I digress.

I need to learn to follow recipes. 

Before the last year and a half I thought I was an amazing cook. Turns out scrambling eggs and cooking Kraft Mac N' Cheese doesn't count. 

I love beautiful quotes about simple things. 

"I do believe in an everyday sort of magic - the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we’re alone.” - Charles de Lint

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Life Today

"It is easier when you are old like me, Micasan,' he said.

'What is?' I asked

'Waiting,' he said. 'One day a ship will come, Micasan. Maybe soon, maybe not so soon. But it will come. Life must not be spent always hoping, always waiting. Life is for living."

-Michael Morpurgo 

Happy November

"Because that’s what life is about.  It’s about the time when you lay in the grass next to those you love. It’s about the color of the sky. It’s about a roaring fire on a winters evening. You’ve got to realize that everybody bleeds, and that everybody hurts. Everybody laughs, and everybody smiles. That’s what it’s all about. That’s all it is. There is no set meaning of life, there is nothing that can be defined, or written. It’s a matter of sculpting your very own definition."

- unknown.

stolen shamelessly from here 

Week 11

1) What says Happy Late Birfday more than an awkward over-sized hedgehog named Hubert? 

2) Tom Hanks. Oh how you make me smile. Kuddos to Coffee and a Cardigan for the find. 

3) Perfect! Thanks Anna for bringing this lovely quote out of the woodwork. 

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4) One Day Without Shoes tomorrow! Yeah TOMS! Try going barefoot for the day. 

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5) Gasp! Look familiar? The boy snail might have gotten me a St-Patty's-Day-but-really-just-cause-he-loves-me-gift. Yeah I know. You wish you had one too (the boy snail and the necklace snail). 

I just can't stop looking at it. So cute!

30 Day music challenge: 

Day 29: a song from your childhood

Dad used to play me to sleep with this one on the guitar. 

Puff the Magic Dragon - Peter, Paul, and Mary

From my work for your enjoyment

photo props here

"I love gym. Gym gets and A+. Miss. Hannah, do you know what an A+ is?" - Joel, Age 3

"It's a binactibinator" - Jackson, Age 5

"I don't know what to do with you. - Parker (Jackson's sister), Age 4

"I have water in my tummy...and goldfish...and alligators!" - Chloe, Age 4

"Jackson is looking at meeeee" - Parker, Age 4

*while holding up an empty toilet paper roll to his eyes with his pants and underwear down around his ankles*

 "Arg! I'm a pirate!" - Ethan, Age 2