Who knew that a gift from my mother would also be my inspiration to write? For years, "ring bling" has been my writing muse, along with a secluded place.
On the left is my grandmother's ring, in the center my mother's ring, and on the right, another vintage spoon ring (also my mother's).
I love these unique rings. They not only have family ties, but are so fun to wear.
On the far left is my fun, department store bling. My 10 year-old also uses ring bling for her writing inspiration. These rings are on one of my mother's vintage hankies.
I think I'll spend time writing today....
Yesterday I made a trip to the grocery store. I came home and filled small lunch size containers with fresh pineapple, grapes, blueberries, raspberries and strawberries.
I also filled bags with pistachio nuts, almonds, and bought organic raisins.
Now I can finally break the kids of grabbing store bought granola bars for breakfast. I stopped buying them, but cannot make them myself every day, so I stocked up on fruit. Now the kids, hubby and myself, can grab a healthy snack "to go."
Although I am not keen on buying plastic lunch bags, it will have to work for now. I need to invest in more reusable containers.
This morning, I heard one daughter screaming in delight. She was thrilled to have healthy food already packaged up for a trip to school.
Yesterday, my daughter and son, placed cement blocks out for the billy goat to stand on. He was so tickled to get them, that my daughter had to have my son hold him off, so she could place the blocks together. When I heard that Orion (billy goat) was thrilled, I went out with my camera to snap some photos.
However, he was already tucked away in his shed and was not about to come back out for me. On my walk back up to the house . . .
....I snapped these photos. Each one in another direction. It was light out, so the back ground on the moon is interesting. The jet was pretty neat to see too. Next time, I plan to take a tripod out and get better photos.
A year of quotes:
"A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking." ~ Earl Wilson
I love these unique rings. They not only have family ties, but are so fun to wear.
On the far left is my fun, department store bling. My 10 year-old also uses ring bling for her writing inspiration. These rings are on one of my mother's vintage hankies.
I think I'll spend time writing today....
Yesterday I made a trip to the grocery store. I came home and filled small lunch size containers with fresh pineapple, grapes, blueberries, raspberries and strawberries.
Now I can finally break the kids of grabbing store bought granola bars for breakfast. I stopped buying them, but cannot make them myself every day, so I stocked up on fruit. Now the kids, hubby and myself, can grab a healthy snack "to go."
This morning, I heard one daughter screaming in delight. She was thrilled to have healthy food already packaged up for a trip to school.
Yesterday, my daughter and son, placed cement blocks out for the billy goat to stand on. He was so tickled to get them, that my daughter had to have my son hold him off, so she could place the blocks together. When I heard that Orion (billy goat) was thrilled, I went out with my camera to snap some photos.
However, he was already tucked away in his shed and was not about to come back out for me. On my walk back up to the house . . .
A year of quotes:
"A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking." ~ Earl Wilson
Comments
The moon and plane photos turned out great!
Those photos are wonderful. You must have hit "The Blue Hour"--a time when you don't see the blue but your camera picks it up and creates stunning photos! If you want to know when your blue hour is you can go here http://www.bluehoursite.com/ Have a great day!
I did this same thing when my kids were home. I must say, when I started doing it- I wasn't using healthy snacks...I was buying big bags of potato chips and other UNhealthy things and would divi them up. I started this way to help with portion control. Once I got them used to that...THEN I SWITCHED TO HEALTHY!
baby steps. one thing at a time.
pictures looked great.
~Pat