Perfect Sunday Morning

It's 6:30 and I have to say it is probably my favorite time of day.  Three of my sons are up in their rooms sleeping so peacefully while a cool early summer breeze is blowing through their windows.  My husband is sleeping soundly as I managed to slide out of bed without waking him.  The birds are singing so sweetly outside of the open windows, waiting anxiously for me to come re-fill their feeders.  The coffee is in the French Press almost ready for me to pour and the house is silent.  I love this time of day when everything is so fresh from the night's rest, all things seem possible and the beauty of the world just seems so clear.  It's another new beginning and a chance to make a difference in a day.

It's moments like this that I am just amazed out how blessed I am to have the life I do.  I live in such a beautiful place and have a family that many will never have the chance to experience.  After having such an emotionally charged week at work, it is nice to have a weekend to just surround myself with my children and husband, laugh at stupid little things and find joy in the pure simplicity of what my life is.  I hope to carry this feeling back to work tomorrow and keep it close to my heart so as not to let things upset me the way they did last week.  Because this feeling that I have right now, is what matters the most and what gives me my strength to go on.  Yes, I feel like my life is coming to a crossroads, but I am not there quite yet, so I  have faith that things are on course for how they should be and that in time everything will fall into place. 

So yesterday was filled with a few of those simple pleasures.  Such as, after having been taken down a year ago for our wedding reception, the clothes line has now been put back into place, which means tonight I will have the luxury of sleeping on sheets that were line dried in the fresh summer air.  BIG SMILE on my face right now.  Another simple pleasure was watching my youngest help Robby build a slanting trellis for the cumcumbers to grow up in the garden.  So many of our plants came up from seed, that it is clear they will take over their space, so Robby and Trevor created a trellis and placed it in the garden and then trained the cucumber plants to climb up.

  And though I am not always a big fan of weeding, yesterday I did take on the monumental task of weeding the strawberry bed.  Thanks to an IPOD full of great new songs, and having my husband and son out in the garden with me to keep me company, I managed to rid the bed of almost every weed.  Even though the strawberries are done for the summer, the bed looks much nicer.  Here are the before and after pictures along with the bucket of weeds.

And here is one of the things about summer I don't love.  He was in one of the outbuildings today.  YUCK!

So here's too another amazing day.  May you all find the simple pleasures in your life to be what gives you the greatest joy.  Trevor asked me yesterday if I wished I we had one really nice mall with all of my favorite stores in it here in the small town we live in.  I thought about it for only one second and said "No".  I like my town the way it is, and one of life's less simple pleasures is taking a road trip to the really nice malls and making that a special day in itself.  I had that life before, and it really didn't bring me the happiness that I have found now.  So, I will keep things as they are and be eternally grateful for them.  Have a beautiful day everyone.