Summertime...sunshine, seashore, and sales

Summer has flown by, and this post is being prompted by me wanting to share a link on Facebook as well as realizing that it's been too long since I've updated my blog!  Summer 2013 is going to be remembered for the joy of a sunshiny day in the midst of a lot of rainy days!  It's also going to be remembered for the bliss of the beach... walking in the sand, swimming in the waves, and laughter and fun with my family.  And that last thing...sales, I admit I love going to a good yard sale!  This year, we hosted one!  The fun part of that was finding household treasures to pass along to someone else who wanted or needed them!  Today, I got to go to several!  I find that finding treasures at a yard sale are just like finding them along the shoreline.  You have to look for them, and what you might find as being lovely and absolutely the right thing for you might just be an old dust catcher that might break to someone else.  Beauty is definitely in the eye of the beholder!

Time flies!!!

They say time flies...and perhaps this blog is proof! (Or maybe it's just proof that I don't often take the time to write!) In either case, I guess I need to get blogging! This year is speeding by without me taking the time to reflect on what's new in my life. This year, I've been blessed with some darling new little friends in a classroom of my own, and that has been a great blessing. This year, I've been blessed to spend time with with a couple of nieces and a lovely little nephew a little more often than I had before, and that has been a delight! Maybe someday, they'll read this note, and know that I really loved being with them to celebrate all life's little and big moments. This past year, I got a new little blessing/bundle of joy to celebrate and enjoy so I have another little voice to call me Aunt... (I love being an AUNT!) There's another little smushie that will smile when he reads this someday, and think teasingly...but you're my cousin...but I know in his heart...he knows and loves his Aunt! (And I know that for sure!)
2012 seems to be flying with lots of exciting additions to celebrate in the coming months. (I'm looking forward to the celebrations, and hoping for a few surprises too!) And the thought of hoping brings me back to the concept of this blog... being a trousseau of sorts. I hope that you have had lots of delightful things to celebrate and enjoy in the last year, and I hope that 2012 brings you and me some delightful surprises to celebrate!

Schooldays!

I am spending a fabulous day learning about Blogs and these nifty things called digital binders! Think of a computer "Trapper Keeper!" Just love this concept!!! PS. Check out http://www.lorislatestlinks.com/ if you are a teacher...

The Season of Waiting...

This is it... the season of advent ... waiting... as children, we remember the anticipation of the pure bliss of Christmas morning, and as adults we look forward to the sight of happy family members and friends being delighted by the things that we have planned for them to enjoy. What a wonderful celebration Christmas is!

Hmmm...

I haven't written in a while, and I've just spent about four minutes thinking of a title... and this one seems to fit best. September has flown by, and we're already a third of the way through October. The past two days have been gloriously beautiful... both for sunshine and the fabulous shades of autumn. I think we're at the peek of leaves this week. My birthday was yesterday... which I describe as the day that the last of summer's roses bloom, and the first flakes of winter may fall... so this was definitely a beautiful day to enjoy, because we got one last warm taste of summer rather than a nip of winter's chill.
Right now, I feel like it's a waiting day. The next season's adventures will soon be upon us, and things will be filled with zillions of projects. But it's not now...and not yet! So I'm just enjoying the wait!

The end of Summer Bliss

I love summertime! This summer is a wonderful example of why I enjoy it so very much. During the past three months and a half months, I have had the opportunity to see most of my family and many of my friends. I love having the opportunity to travel, and this summer is going to go down in my family history books as a great year to travel! I have celebrated graduations and weddings, flown across the pond to see the beautiful land of Eire, sank my toes into the sand, and visited the birthplace of the King of Rock-n-Roll. If you haven't figured it out yet... I had fun!
It hasn't been all sunshine and roses... (There has definitely been a little laundry...) But my summer has been a delightful experience. A friend of mine posted on his blog the concept of where do you go to recharge yourself? This summer has charged my need for celebrating life. So I'm wondering what do you do to celebrate life?
I'm a little sad to see the carefree days of summer go, but I'm looking forward to celebrating the joys of Autumn.

Forever Young...at least in our minds

Last night, I celebrated a reunion of dear friends. It was my friends' 20th high school reunion. I was a party crasher in the sense that it was the class just a year ahead of mine, but in reality, I was an invited guest, so it was a special evening with cherished classmates! In the afternoon, I pulled my yearbook off the shelf to look at their senior year. The yearbook's theme was "Forever Young", after the classic song. But it caused me to reflect on the idea that in our minds in some sense each of us will always be forever young in the hearts and minds of our classmates. When I was in high school, the show Designing Women was a hit, and in one of the episodes, the Delta Burke character Suzanne Sugarbaker goes to a class reunion. I don't remember if I paid attention to that particular episode at the time... other than thinking that class reunions are for adults. But rather recently, I came across that show, and Suzanne's comments on seeing the people there...how no matter if people before her have gone grey, hairless, or whatever... in her mind... They will always be the same "sweet boys who carried her books." I think I agree. I hope I left a sweet impression in high school, and I'm so glad to be blessed with sweet dear friends who left such an impression with me.