Hooray for the Weekend!

Happy Friday!! I'm sure glad it's here. I hope you make the most of it! I plan to edit a million (okay 370) photos, sleep in, get in some exercise and hopefully go to the Farmer's Market. I won't buy too much fruit like I did last week. It just went to the freezer. I just got so excited when they said fill up the bag for 8 dollars!

I can't resist the sweetness of this photo. Pure bliss. I hope this is how I sleep this weekend!

Joy

I'm reading a new book, And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini. He wrote Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns. The latter is in my top five favorite books. Ever.  If you haven't read it, be prepared to shed some tears.

About 35 pages into the the new book, this quote caught my heart.  "He used to wonder how such a frail little body could house so much joy, so much goodness. It couldn't. It spilled out of her, came pouring out her eyes."

I keep going back to this. Oh how I wish as we grow up all of us could retain this childlike joy. Life can bring you down, but when there's this joy inside, all those grown up worries don't have as much power. We can walk through this life happier. And I think happiness can be contagious.  It "spills" out of you.

Psalm 126:3

"The LORD has done great things for us; We are glad."

Pretending to Be Tall

I like to see what I'd look like tall. I always wished I could be tall, but I'm okay with it now :) I had so much fun this day. Hanging around at the park on a very teeny picnic blanket. I remembered it being big, but when I brought it out of the car and layed it out, it was very small! My boyfriend Steve and I each had half our bodies on it. It was still so relaxing. I did cartwheels in a skirt trying to get  fun self portraits. I hope nobody minded. o_0 This is our fun. We like a quiet place in nature. We wish for a ranch or a home on lots of land someday.  With lots of pets!

 

I'm glad I have someone who I can do these simple things with and have a great time. ♥

 

This is the book I keep trying to read and can't finish. Maybe someday.

 

.thank you.....

.....for the gift of peace, the gift of joy, the gift of contentment, the gift of TRUE love. Thank you for the gift of everlasting life.

Merry Christmas friends and loved ones.

~Step Away~

Walk in the Meadow., a photo by Eskimo Kiss Photography on Flickr.

I often feel the need to step away from all that life throws at you. Turn off the computer, turn off the cell phone. As hard as it is sometimes to do that, I find when I do and take time to do something quiet, I feel calmer. Walk in a park, listen to the birdies or watch the waves crash. Do something today that makes you feels peaceful. I always feel better after I do!