Blogging like a magazine cover today.....

If I were a magazine cover this morning, I would be displaying this lovely lady in her beautiful dress strolling on the beach along with a byline of how wonderful and stress free her life is and what she does to keep it that way. But in real life we both know I am never going to look like this and I am going to have stress just like everybody does. So telling me her story will probably inspire me for a nano second until the real world invades.

Then a little smaller on the side, I would urge you to lose weight and stay healthy with some new diet fad or exercise craze. But in real life, I am starting to walk. I downloaded a pedometer to my phone and started my walking Monday. Here are my results. So happy with myself. Would have walked more but it started to sprinkle. Was going to walk yesterday and the minute I pulled in the driveway it started raining and it is raining hard this morning. The magazines don't tell you to check your weather forecast for the week before you start the life changing walking routine. 

The next item on the cover is always a delicious dessert guaranteed to make you come back from said walk and eat 50# of chocolate. I would put this on my magazine cover....

....except the candy bowl is on MY desk and it is the only reason that I even go to work.

Have a great Wednesday

Tuesday top 10

Top 10 things I love about the signs of spring

1. The sight of robins in my yard as they forage through the grass and dead leaves looking for food. 

2. Seeing cardinals traveling in pairs, male and female.

3. The sound of a steady raining falling on the roof as I sleep

4. Getting out my flip flops to see what ones are still in good enough shape to wear again this year and which ones go in the "only to work outside" pile.

5. Planning summer vacation.

6. Going outside with a light jacket ... or better yet, no jacket at all. 

7. Watching the blue jays coming back to my apple tree outside the window.

8. Being able to take a walk around the neighborhood in the evening.

9. Seeing daffodils sprouting up along the roadside. 

10. And my favorite sign of spring that lets me know winter is just about over....my Bradford pear trees starting to bud. 

These are all things I have seen this past week and it lightens my heart to know spring is just around the corner.

Every once in awhile....

I am so glad my body knows when to just shut down and catch up. This weekend has exhausted me. Saturday morning, I had a Thirty-One meeting with my local group. It was a little over two hours long. Immediately afterward, I had to run a few errands while I was in town and I stopped by the local Walmart to pick up a few things. 

Headed from there out to my friend Stevie's house to attend her little girl's 7th birthday party. 

Left the party and headed to the grocery store to get my groceries for the week. Stayed up till midnight reading and watching TV. 

Got up at 6:00 on Sunday and did my Sunday School lesson and made an Easter egg wreath for a friend. After church, I spent some time telling my sister-in-law goodbye as she was leaving immediately after church for Florida. She has been planning her move the past few months and today is the day she and my niece left for their new home and her new job.

Came home and fixed me some lunch. It started pouring the rain and I decided to lay on the couch and listen to it and hopefully catch me a little cat nap. 

But my body said, no short nap today. I closed my eyes to listen to the rain and woke up four and a half hours later. 

I must really have needed the rest.

Sunday Sillies

What is your opinion?

Okay, I normally decorated for spring after Valentine's Day and the later on add my Easter stuff. But Easter is the last Sunday in March this year, so I am trying to decide if it I want to start this upcoming stuff putting my spring decor out. Here was last years display.



Not sure how I want to do this years. Think I will just put all the Easter and spring out at one time next Saturday, the 27th. Then I will be ready for the whole month. What do you think?

My faves this Friday

It's only about 5 months (well 148 days to be exact but who's counting) it will be time for National Conference. I am really excited about going. This will be my 3rd year so by now I know about what to expect, although they change things up on us each year so it keeps everything new and fresh. We always have an awards night and everybody has a nice pretty new dress for it. So this is going to be my conference dress this year. It's by the same people who made my short length black one last year and I love it. But I want to go with jewel tones this year. 

For shoes, I want something gold/jewel tone to match the dress. Maybe something similar to these ... but NOT THESE. Especially at $110.00 per pair...uhm that would be a big fat NO.

But I do love this necklace from Charming Charlies to go with the dress. 

I may even get this for Easter and then just wear a shawl or cardigan with it if its cool. Do you think this would be cute for an awards dinner?

A few of my favorite things...

These are a few of my favorite things right now that I wanted to share with you. Ms. Wanda at my church was doing a project for the GA's and she had a couple of bags left over so she very kindly passed them my way. Aren't they adorable. She said she ordered them from Lakeside Collection. That catalog is full of fun stuff. I am put grass and plastic eggs in them to create a Easter display. I love them. 

I found this little tin can for just $2.00 a Dollar General. I am not sure what to store in it yet, but I had to have it for my Thirty-One office at home since that is one of our teams favorite sayings. We even have a conference t-shirt that has that on it. And yes the shirt sparkles.

On my way home last night, I was talking to my dear friend Georgeanna and she suggested I pop in Dollar General because she saw they had put their spring stuff out and they had some cute little brown bunnies, much like the ones in my favorite photo I posted the other day. They were just a dollar each. They are adorable.

 Georgeanna also told me she had a bunch of philodendrons and was going to bring me one to church. She even had it potted and ready for display. I am going to keep my eyes open for a wicker container to put the plant in. But for now, I couldn't be happier how this is coming together and I only have $2.00 in the display to get the look I want.  

So what do you think? Did I get pretty close to the picture.