Stay-cations are the best kind

Nelly and I had a little stay-cation since we didn't really get to do too much over the summer and since he is DONE DONE his first year as a firefighter and I am celebrating my first week of school being over... hah!

Anyway, it was glorious, we didn't want to come home and room service is the best :)

One more thing

some days I cannot believe how much I love this boy

Like these

i like these wall hooks. Bought 2 of them yesturday from Pier 1 for either our front or back entrance.

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The Perfect Pizza Crust

Look no more, I've got the perfect pizza crust. I shoulda taken a pic so I could remember how good this looked but it really was awesome.
only change i might make is to make 2 pizza's out of it cause I like more of a thin crust
sooo good!

-2 1/2 cups flour ( half whole wheat)
-1 tbsp. instant yeast
-1 cup warm water
-2 tbsp. olive oil
1 tsp. sugar
-1 tsp. salt
Mix all ingredients in a large bowl with a spoon. Knead in 1/2 cup flour if needed. Form in to a ball. Cover and let rise for 20-30 minutes. Spread dough on to a greased pizza pan.
Add toppings and bake for 25 min or until crust is browned

*Recipe from Mennonite Girls Can Cook website

Found Some Stuff

Soooo.

went searching in Dad's bins again. Found some sweet magazines from 1951 that I'm sure I"ll find some use for.

Also, found a small wooden ladder (pretty sure it was from some old bunk beds) that I think I"ll use for a towel rack such as this:

besides my recent bin finds the good news is the Linden move seems to fit with my heart and I have fewer panick attacks than I thought I would. I'm having fun finding furniture and sanding and painting and dreaming up our house... so excited to see what it looks like.

As I settle into the peacefulness of the 'country life' I'm inspired by a quote Mike gave me recently:

"I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbour - such is my idea of happiness. And then, on the top of all that, for you a mate, and children, perhaps - what more can the heart of man desire?"
-Leo Tolstoy - Family Happiness

I feel like there is a whole lot to say but I'm tired and happy so I'll stop here.

a reminder of what makes life full

"I have come to believe that by and large the human family all has the same secrets, which are both very telling and very important to tell. They are telling in the sense that they tell what is perhaps the central paradox of our condition -that what we hunger for perhaps more than anything else is to be known in our full humanness, and yet this is often just what we also fear more than anything else. It is important to tell at least from time to time the secret of who we truly and fully are--even if we tell it only to ourselves -because otherwise we run the risk of losing track of who we truly and fully are and little by little come to accept instead the highly edited version which we put forth in hope that the world will find it more acceptable than the real thing. It is important to tell our secrets too because it makes it easier that way to see where we have been in our lives and where we are going. It also makes it easier for other people to tell us a secret or two of their own, and exchanges like that have a lot to do with what being a family is all about and what being human is all about. Finally, I suspect that it is by entering that deep place inside us where our secrets are kept that we come perhaps closer than we do anywhere else to the One who, whether we realize it or not, is of all our secrets the most telling and the most precious we have to tell."
-Frederick Buechner