Living Life Beautifully

It's so quiet here at home. The husband is working, the oldest is working and the younger three are at school. It's just me and the pets and all the pets are napping. I can hear the AC humming and the clicking of the keys as I type out my post. That's about it. It's funny how we get so used to noise to the point of feeling almost uncomfortable when it's totaly quiet. How cool it must have been to be alive when the world was slower and less occupied. I love to read books with stories from long ago when people cared more about their character and that of others. When children were expected to be respectful of themselves and others. When adults gave a thought to the example they set for their kids. When life was slower and friends were life long. When a barn burning was tragic but the entire town showed up to help build a new one. I'm sure it wasn't all a field of flowers, but you can see where I'm going with this. I want to have a day go by and lo...

I'm looking forward to the fall. I remember when I was little and the leaves would start to fall from the trees. I would run outside and soak it all in. I love to open my old windows, watch the curtains blow in the wind and smell the fresh breeze through the house. At our other house we had a property across the street that was empty and at some point during fall the lightning bugs would be everywhere. Sitting on the porch watching the kids try to catch them and put them in a jar was pretty cool. I've enjoyed this last year in the new/old house. Everything in my home is neutral in color because I have a lot of stuff. I figure it makes it look less cluttered that way. If I had a bunch of stuff in lots of different colors, my home would look like a circus. I learned a trick several years ago. I have very pale skin and learned that painting my walls in warm cream and white colors and decorating in dusty reds, greens, taupe and cream actually makes my skin look nicer. You get this ...

I am happy to report that our little mini kitty Maggie is doing great. Thanks to so many prayers from my fellow animal lovers. Her kidney count is still high but she is acting like normal and seems to be very content. She will have to be an indoor cat from now on, but I'm happy with that. I had to tell a story about something that happened on the day she was doing the worst and we were sure we were going to lose her. I had just gotten off the phone with the vet and wasn't too happy with the news. He was pretty sure she wouldn't make it through. It frustrated me how negative he was. Although after this phone call I was a bit depressed myself. Maggie was born to a barn cat owned by the Saur family. There were originally 4 kittens. The mother cat had disappeared when they were only a couple of weeks old and was never found again. One of the kittens didn't make it but the other three were nursed by hand by my son's girlfriend Kim until she couldn't do it anymore due...