Sunday, September 3, 2017

Blogging Hiatus

June? July? August? Well that went fast...

Our 2017 sunflowers

I had this sudden compulsion to stop by blogger and count my blessings... well at least five of them. It's much too much of a beautiful end of summer day to not quickly jot something cheery down.

  1. Our Garden
    The awe inspiring fact that tiny, lifeless seeds are able to grow into such large bountiful fruit producing plants has yet to evade me. I'm in love with the garden. I'm in love with the fact that despite my planting the seeds, tilling the soil, and tending the plants, I am incapable of making them grow. The Lord alone resides over that feat and I feel truly blessed to be witness to it.
  2. My Job
    Do I love venturing from the comfort of our cozy home so that I can earn a little extra income? No. But I'm really tremendously thankful for a job that I mostly like and for the fact that I'm able to earn needed income for our family but only work twenty four hours a week. I feel very blessed to be where I'm at in life, able to make some money but I am also able to spend most of my time raising my son.
  3. Baby Sparrows
    OUR ROBINS came back this year. They built a gorgeous little nest in the honeysuckle and momma laid two lovely blue gems into the masterpiece. I watched as a crow swooped in and plundered the beautiful eggs. I was really heartbroken, furious... I may have wanted to retaliate with murder. I'm pretty easily jarred. Almost the entire summer went by, our robins vanished, and my anger with the crows never ceased. But then one day there were tiny little brown birds almost invading every bush surrounding our back alley. The little things were so hyper, so noisy, so excited about life. A large group of just learning to fly, jumping and flailing baby sparrows brought much needed joy to our nature adventures this summer. Life goes on, despite large annoying black birds, life goes on. I'm thankful for baby sparrows.
  4. Family
    It's generic, it's expected, it goes without saying but I cannot actually bring myself to making a list of blessings without it. Family and friends are thee number one most important aspect and biggest blessing in my life.
  5. Strawberry Rhubarb Jam
    I've been absent here for several months but not much has changed. I still LOVE food! Little Abe and I made a spectacular batch of strawberry rhubarb jam this summer and this morning it topped our breakfast french toast. I heated up a few sliced strawberries in the hot french toast pan to lay on top of the jam. Strawberry rhubarb french toast with black coffee... come on, is there any better way to start an end of summer Sunday? I think not!


This year has been really busy and really pretty wonderful. I did a heavy priorities check awhile back and majorly cut my online presence. The most significant omission was deactivating my facebook account for several months. There are a lot of people on facebook that I have little contact with otherwise but it was wonderful not having the monster that is facebook as apart of my life for quite a long while. I never meant however to stop blogging but leaving facebook, committing to spending almost no time at the computer during little Abe's waking hours, and loving the dis-connected life sort of just led to my unintentional absence in blogger. I've missed you all!

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  1. It's nice to get a catch up and I am happy for you that you spend your time where your priorities are. Happy end of summer.

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    1. The balance is SOOOO easy to throw off. I don't think I'm a very disciplined person but buckling down and majorly cutting my online presence has helped so much with putting my priorities first. This year has been really good.

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  2. Love the planned facebook outage! I've been considering the same. Happy to hear from you, and strawberry rhubarb french toast sounds amazing!

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    1. I had planned to leave facebook for a month or two and ended up having my account deactivated for MUCH longer. I thought I might miss facebook a little but it turned out that I LOVED not having it in my life. I re-activated my account about a month ago in order to get in contact with a few people and I've left it on, not gone on it much, but I don't like it. It's a sticky situation since it makes getting ahold of people so easy.

      I hope I'm back here though. I miss blogging and miss all of you.

      Yeah, the french toast was awesome!

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  3. I've missed you - so glad everything is going well - you sound incredibly happy!!!!!

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    1. I've missed you too. I have thought a few times in the past week to send an e-mail to you to check in and say hi. Of course I've yet to do it. Thinking of you though.
      This year has been really good. I mean there's been ups and downs but I am happy.

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  4. Whoo hoo! Lovely to see you back! Missed you.

    I'm not a great user of Facebook. I respond to other people but that's about it. Although take bloggy breaks, I really enjoy the writing and also the reading of everyone else's blog.

    Good to see you back!

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    1. I have to run over to your blog and catch back up again :)
      It's good to be back. I honestly can't believe that I missed three whole months here! Goodness and most of May. I've been blogging pretty steady for upwards of five years. That's a LONG break. I guess I needed it.

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  5. Good to hear that you are doing well. I got back on Facebook this summer as I realized that an old friend had passed away and I had lost touch with so many previous friends. I lasted 2 months and deactivated my account again. I just cannot stand it. I don't like bragging, whining or venting and Facebook seems the perfect outlet for all 3.

    The jam sounds delicious!!

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    1. Exactly how I feel... there are a lot of important things about people that one honestly misses out on if they're not on facebook (a fact that makes me a little bitter). But I truly do not like it. I'll probably deactivate again soon too.

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