I honestly didn't intend to be absent from this space last week. Autumn and Winter are equally my favorite seasons and I have so many ideas for things I want to share. But like so many of you, I'm sure, this past week has been hard, with the news of new tragedies filling our Facebook feed almost daily. I'm not really sure why, but for some reason coming here and sharing about my life just seemed wrong, as if I was oblivious to the deep hurts of so many. My heart, in particular, was so broken for the young woman whose life was taken in North Carolina. It's all just senseless, and a reflection of the broken, hurting world in which we live. I wasn't really sure what to do with myself, I can't change the world, but in the end I knew the one thing I could do is to continue to do what I do every day, try to make a our home a safe refuge for the ones I love, and intentionally focus on beauty.
Now that we are empty nesters we're making some changes around the homestead. Our house is small with only two bedrooms, and because of that for the past three years our daughter occupied the larger bedroom because she had more furniture and clothes than my husband and I combined! But with her recent marriage, we are now moving into the larger bedroom, and since I am a lover a color the first thing on the agenda was to paint! I've known from the first day we moved into this house that once this room was ours I would paint the walls in my favorite shade of rusty red, and that's exactly what I did, for three days! Yesterday my husband and I undertook the task of switching out the beds, and today we'll move in some other furniture and perhaps add a few decorative touches, as well. Eventually I'll make a valance for the window, but even with only the bed and nightstands in the room we are loving it already! So as you can see, my days have been quite busy, and by evening I was too tired to even think of composing a post!
I wish I could say that the coming weeks looked more promising, but we are actually leaving this coming Saturday for Texas to visit family and will likely be gone for 10-12 days. It saddened me a little to think of not posting here regularly during that time, and then today I had an idea! Why not write several posts similar to my weekly Small Things series (which I actually missed last Saturday!), and schedule them while I'm away? And so that's is exactly what I am going to do. Today is the first in the "Vacation Edition" series, and there will be two more this week, on Wednesday and then on Saturday, and then it will repeat again for next week on Monday/Wednesday and Saturday. Our plan is to be back around the 1st of October, but as it stands right now we don't really have a set date, because . . . we're empty nesters now, and we can! It's my hope that this will give you a little something to look forward to while I'm away and **maybe** when I get back things will actually slow down a little. I have decided that since I'll be posting these three times a week, rather than six links, each post will only inlude three. And so, without further delay, here is this week's first installment;
Here are three small things that inspired me this week . . .
I only recently discovered Christina's Instagram account, but it has quickly become a favorite! I particularly liked this post,
The Door Stays Open, Always! I actually shared it with our newly married daughter this past weekend. I hope she always feels that our home is always still her home!
2. eunoia
I am a lover of words (I actually have an entire
Pinterest board full of them!) and when I came across this word this past week it seemed appropriate. It means "a well mind, good thinking or beautiful thinking" In a conversation I had with my daughter last week about how heavy the world feels right now, I encouraged her to step away from her phone and social media, even for a few hours. There's a reason why Philippians 4:8 instructs us;
"Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things."
I came across this book on Amazon this past week. It's included with a Kindle Unlimited subscription, and so I downloaded it. I haven't had a chance to look through it much, but I plan to read it on the long drive to Texas.
And that's it for now, my friends! Be sure to check back on Wednesday for the next edition!
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