An early morning ride to pick up fresh cinnamon rolls and doughnuts.
Nothing better then getting up before the sun rises to head out and see dawn unfold before your eyes as you go on a little adventure with your Dad!
Our road trip took us to the Rise ‘N Roll Bakery, a little piece of Heaven right here on earth, their cinnamon rolls are as light as air and their doughnuts will melt in your mouth!
Just and Update:
I’m on Spring Break and enjoying my family. I will be posting photos here and there as I savor this time.
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Stay out of the kitchen, we have gossiping to do!
I am so happy to be home to catch up with my sister and her adorable, gorgeous love bug of a baby girl!
Have a wonderful weekend!
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I am up, up and awaaaay this morning. I am flying home to see my family.
I am always sad when Mr. Michie doesn’t get to come with me, but there is a certain tiny little person that I will be getting to visit with and I am sure she will keep me more than happy and occupied!
“Brown paper packages tied up with string, these are a few of my favorite things!” I don’t care how old you are, Julie Andrews belted it out correctly when she sang that line in The Sound of Music, packages are wonderful scrumptious surprises.
There was a package waiting for me yesterday. It was from my adorable sister and some extra treats hidden inside from my very sweet mom. I am telling you, that just made my day!
Yesterday was a day and a half! My Monday misadventures seem to be carrying me through the week. I have my own little uniform that I wear to work, because I normally come home covered in paint, dust, dirt… you name it, it is probably somewhere on me. So, I never wear anything that is that nice, because of course, it will get ruined. But, yesterday I wore my favorite pair of mustard colored pants with a little white top (white in the Cupboard, what was I thinking?) and a cute green with white polka dot sweater I got when I went shopping with my sister at Target. She got the orange one and I got the green one, that is just plain simple sisterly shopping happiness!
I was setting up for Life Drawing and when I walked back into my room, I noticed that right across my upper legs were two perfectly huge lines of thick black paint. I scrubbed and scrubbed and sprayed and washed, but it is still faintly there, only now it is the color of charcoal. I have one last hope in some magic stuff my mom uses, but if all else fails, I shall cut them up and make something out of them. I haven’t made anything from my stuffed animal book yet, and the pants would make a cute tiger or cat or pony.
It is a sorry thing to be sad over, I know. I am not materialistic, I just really loved these pants. But, the package that was waiting for me, definitely improved my mood! Inside it was a plethora of pink and red and cupcake designed paper. It was Valentine’s in a box!
There was candy for me and for Mr. Michie. There was a cute cupcake tea towel and adorable sweet treat erasers, that I think Gigi and Foxy might just enjoy playing with and heart garland ribbon and a Valentine framed picture of my sweetie pie niece, who I could gobble up and a cute Valentine’s storage container. It made me so very happy. Even better, I got to open it and talk to my sister at the same time via Skype! I am very blessed!
I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw this:
One of these little candy dishes jumped in my cart at Target to live at my sister’s house and she surprised me with one. So now one is living in my house too:
The goods:
No package from my sister’s house would be complete without a Luna hair or two. Luna is the most beautiful Lab lady in the world. She is a black Labrador that could be an Eddie Bauer model:
As always, my family was too generous! That package made me the happiest lady in the world last night! I munched on Dove chocolates and read a most delicious book!
I got a sweet miniature Mary Engelbreit desktop calendar from my Mom this Christmas. I wait with anticipation in the morning to see what the next cheery little page will be.
This was my page yesterday. It was beautiful. It looks like snow is coming our way next week. Fingers crossed for at least one snow day. A day to just stay inside and be cozy.
Here’s to the weekend, long may it last!
Before we left my Sister’s house to head home to our cottage we shared one more afternoon snack together. Salted caramel hot chocolate and snowflake sugar cookies. The cookies were purchased at the delicious Our Daily Bread Bakery, where we had eaten breakfast that morning and hung out.
We sat on the couch, drinking, laughing, munching away on cookies, I can’t think of a better way to end my time there then sharing a moment with my sister.
I think that because they were served in her little owl mugs, the hot chocolate even tasted better, the whipped cream sitting on top of them like little fluffy hats!
All is quiet here, we are slowly easing into this new year. Mr. Michie and I just arrived back this afternoon from seeing my family at home for the holidays. It was a wonderful trip. I got to see my sister, who is my best friend and finally meet in person (after many Skype visits) my beautiful new niece. She is sweet beyond words and I am already missing her and all her little giggles and sweet baby smells.
We have a few more days before school starts, so we will spend the weekend unpacking, doing a little reorganizing and just being.
I hope that your new year has gotten off on the right foot for you and that all is well. Jennifer x
I am a pioneer woman. All the women in my family are. We travel where our lives take us and we keep the home fires burning. My mother and her mother before that and her mother before that and so on have given me that gift, I am fortunate and I mean this with every ounce of humbleness, I am a good homemaker. I know how to keep a home and how to make a home, they have bestowed that blessing on me.
However, I am lucky in that, I am a modern pioneer woman, I am a pioneer woman with Skype. On this day before Thanksgiving when I can’t be with my family, I am blessed that I can see their beautiful faces.
It is not always easy being apart from them, but I am married now and wherever Mr. Michie is, is HOME. I am so fortunate, that when I packed up my wagon and headed in my case east vs. the west of wagons ho, I knew that it was not forever, to never ever see my family again. Those were brave women, to leave behind everything they knew, for a new world.
As you pack up your wagons to travel to family and friends this holiday season, I pray that you are well and your journeys safe.
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Oh, the First of September! Where did you come from? It seems only yesterday I walked out of school with the sun on my back, heading toward vacation and Summer with open arms.
August brought a visit home to see new places, to see my family, a baby shower for my sister, shopping, eating, eating tomatoes that actually tasted like a tomato! August brought, getting to talk to my mom in person instead of skype, getting to see my dad every day. Getting to play with Maisy, the cutest dog in the world!
August brought suntan lotion and heat and skin warmed by the sun as you swam in the pool. August brought one hospital trip for me after a really bad case of food poisoning, where my dad was still my dad, no matter how old I am and held my hand as they tried to start an IV. It brought my first trip to the Wakarusa Dime Store, home of the famous GIANT JELLY BEANS, where my mom and I tasted almost every flavor and I got to see her beautiful smile and laugh.
August brought a road trip from Indiana to Viriginia, where I drove past Upper Sandusky, movie “home” to Doris Day. August brought me having to tell my family goodbye, to watch their beautiful faces as they waved and blew kisses from the other side of the ticket gate. I hate August, I love August. I am so blessed for the time I had, but I am ready to see them again.
School starts on Tuesday and I am not sure I am really ready for it, this time around. I still feel worn out from being sick and flying, but Tuesday will come whether I am ready or not and so this new school year shall begin.
Mr. Michie and I went out yesterday to run a few errands and the sun was out, but it was cool and breezy, the light is changing, Autumn is on her way. It won’t be long before we turn our clocks back and the night creeps in faster and more candles are lit in the cozy cottage behind the racing green door.
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