life at the daily grind

Our lovely little penelope isn't quite as little as when she arrived in our home 4 weeks ago. At 13 weeks she clocks in at about 15 pounds and about 14" tall. She's a bundle of crazy joy and I swear she gets bigger every day. Currently her ears are huge and legs go on for days. A little awkward looking, honestly, but G and I are very excited to see how much more she grows and changes in the coming months. No longer do I get to return to sleep once my husband leaves for work in the dark hours of the early morning. Once he's up, puppy's up. And once puppy's up, I'm up.  As our family prepared for a blizzard back in New England, we battened down the hatches expecting gale force winds and buckets of rain. The storm washed ashore many pretty treasures for us to find as we combed the beaches. My personal favorite, was a beautiful conch shell, flawless and unbroken, the size of my face. Pasta and homemade vodka meat sauce And stormy weather calls f...

Here we are again. Another new year. Between now and my last post my husband and I have been busy bees getting our house cleaned and ready for Christmas time and both of our families visiting. You may think that it wouldn't be that difficult to keep your house clean when there is no furniture to let things pile up on, but we found quite the opposite to be true. No furniture means nowhere to actually put any belongs(such as the boxes on boxes of clothes we had). Eventually everything was contained enough that when our family, arrived baring gifts of couches and chairs and tables found on good ol' Craig's list, we were good to go! We were so ready to finally have our house filled with cushioned things to rest our weary bones, and maybe those of the friends we are making, but we didn't anticipate something else that would unexpectedly be filling our home and hearts as well as drawing in our new friends. December 21st.  Our families pack a huge penske truck with ...

Today I deviated again in my devotionals. I chuckle because when I started this blog I did not intend or imagine for it to end up being a place where I would talk about God, or any thing about my own personal devotion times, but here we are. This month,   She Reads Truth   is doing a plan entitled "Hymns of Gratitude", correlating to American Thanksgiving being a very prominent thing that we are preparing for. "You Have Compassion On Your Children" Today's post was on Psalm 103, and instead of having a little study written out to go along, all they asked was to mediate and journal on this psalm. It's only two in the afternoon right now, but already this psalm was soothing to everything that had happened in my life today.  As I have mentioned in past posts I have had quite a bit of trouble with my car these past couple months. I had finally gotten it home and the next morning it would not start. Being new to a town, and a very small one at t...

"As sure as the sun will rise And takes away the night His mercy will not end His mercy will not end There is good news There’s a promise That no matter where you go You will never be alone In the dark In the doubting When you can’t feel anything Oh, his love remains the same" In light of the recent events I took a quick detour in my bible study plan and did what #shereadstruth had for today. They are in the middle of a series that is studying HYMNS and today was "As Sure As The Sun" Life as an adult has more worries than that of our childhood. Our own lives gain more responsibilities, and we become more aware of all that is happening in the world. Sometimes it feels easier to worry than to trust.  "Come to me, all who labor  and are heavy laden,  and I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28 I feel like it's easy to get lost in what is going on, to focus on the "what if's" and "How will I ever's"  ...

Well, it's official. We have finally moved into our "forever until we move again" apartment. And it's been interesting. Little by little things are arriving. What G had from his station on the west coast arrived a couple days ago and we went from having no furniture to having a mattress, tv stand, a myriad of stringed instruments, a card table, and ONE folding chair...full house. Of course, nothing can happen without a few bumps along the way. Yesterday we learned that we weren't eligible for a government move to bring my stuff from New England down to us here. So now we plan more, arrange more, and eventually life will settle down and a nest will begin to appear. Until then, eat dinner on the floor, and ward off the cats. Tonight we're running away for a tiny bit. Good news, my car is finally ready to come home. So up we go, 3hrs up the coast, to get my baby. Lucky for us we have family up where we are going. Family that up until now we didn't get ...

Today is actually our last day here. After a frustratingly slow exchange with the woman in charge of long term rentals,  finally we were notified that our new keys and contract were waiting for us at the office, and we could pick them up and start the process of tediously moving boxes 6 apartments down... So at the moment I am currently taking a much needed coffee break, realizing that there is no food(having prepared it that way so we wouldn't have a bunch of leftovers to haul over), and the half and half is a little off, and all my clean clothes are in bags and my house is half in boxes and half all over the place. We stopped at the realty office this morning and grabbed a key for the next apartment and decided to check it out on the way home. It was dark, quiet, empty, and small. The complex we live in is made up of duplexes. The apartment that I am currently packing up, makes up the right side of the house(if you're standing outside looking at the front), the new one is...