Early September Weekending

Last~ing

Meaning the last of things... last Friday evening at home (before Abigail goes off to college) was campfire packets for dinner... yum! 

Adding

Little bits of orange and fall here and there (I can't wait to take pictures of what I did today for fall... one mantle, the top of our hutch in the living room - just not pictured yet)

Preparing 

I wanted to send Abigail back to college with these breakfast oat bites she loves so I had to whip up a batch! 

Packing 

Oh boy! I can't believe I'm posting this picture!

Thrifting 

Oh when I saw these cups and sausers (made in england) I was suddenly in the mood to decorate for autumn! 

Baking and Eating

The evening before Abigail requested chicken pot pie with molasses cookies!

There was THIS (that will be its own post just as soon as I can) 

Resting ~ Working ~ Decorating ~ Praying 

Oh thank goodness for Monday off. I got up at 4:20 am so I could get all I could out of the day. I prayed, had my tea, read the Bible and some devotionals I love. It was medicine to me. 

I worked on our autumn home, cleaned up, got ready for school, corrected, planned and enjoyed the cooler temps. 

A weekend post I wish I could go back to and do again... 

Back to School Blessing

We have a special tradition in our family. We call it the Back to School Blessing. 

Right before we start school we cook a special dinner and dessert for our family. 

Ahead of time we prepare a theme for the school year and most importantly a Bible verse to guide us throughout the year. 

Scott and I put a lot of time and love into the dinner choice, dessert, and most of all the talk/blessing to our daughters. 

It is so important to us. 

Here are the pictures from this year and at the end I will post our talk to the girls. 

This year we focused on the thought that even sometimes: 

~ things don't go our way

~ we will make mistakes

~ we might feel broken 

but...

God puts us back together. Not so that we are the same as before

but...

better! 

But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 2 Corinthians 4:7-8

Past Back to School Blessings

2025 

2024

2023

Back to School Blessing 2022

Back to School Blessing 2021

Back to School Blessing 2020

Back to School Blessing 2019 

Back to School Blessing 2018 

Back to School Blessing 2017 

Back to School Blessing 2016 

Back to School Blessing 2015

Late August Weekending

Celebrating 

Scott's birthday was on Saturday. All he wanted was a hike and go to Doro for tea and a mid morning treat. So we did. 

This walk around the resivour is 4 miles. It's flat but not paved so we put on our hiking shoes and loved this cool, crisp morning in the woods! 

And then to Doro. We sat outside and I had my favorite tea in the world, London Fog with steamed whole milk along with a mid morning treat : pistachio chia seed pudding.... yumm! 

Finding 

I found the most amazing find at a thrift store on the way home when I just 'ran in for a quick minute!  

The afternoon was filled with a bunch of things I wanted to get off my list and was so glad I did: 

~ food prep / my snacks for the 5 day school week coming

~ all of the laundry and ironing

~ a heavy lifting workout

~ picked up a huge stack of books at the library I had on 'hold' for my week at school 

~ wrapped his present 

~ visited my parents (and came away with an armful of hydrangia to dry for the fall mantle) 

~ annnnnnd... baking Scott something yummy and homemade for his birthday that we'd have later after dinner: 

Baking

{more} Celebrating 

Blessing

I'll share more just as soon as I can in an upcoming post but we had our Back to School Blessing. 

Things not pictured this weekend: 

 

~ our last time at church with all 4 of us (Abigail is going back to college next weekend) 

~ sunday afternoon was school work, school work, school work (I fogot how much it takes to get it all up and running during back to school) 

~ a quick pop in my classroom with Scott to hang some things and organize some things