The last week

It's been a busy week of work, potlucks:

Waffle iron potluck!  Pizza, cinnamon rolls, and cookies.  

hanging with friends:

my lovely friend Virginia

 getting my fireplace working:

Yay!  My house is warm!

And being happy and content.

She buried her ears
into the calm of his heartbeat,
and in a matter of seconds:
fell terribly in love
with the way her loneliness fell
softly and suddenly,
asleep, in his chest.
~ Christopher Poindexter

Content

I'm currently dwelling in contentment.

Second star to the right and straight on til morning...
~ Peter Pan

Life

Life is currently in an upswing.  And it also is raining for the first time in about 3 weeks.  

We've been instagramming birthday wishes.  I love his face in this one...

If all we can have is forever then I think we should start right now.
~ Tyler Knott Gregson

Patience

Today was a good day for my heart.

Surrender to what is.  Let go of what was.  Have faith in what will be.
~ Sonia Ricotti

Today

I'm glad you're finding your way out of the darkness...

Just realized I used this picture twice.  Ha!  Too bad...I like it!

Alice:  How long is forever?
White Rabbit:  Sometimes, just one second.
~ Lewis Carrol

Food WINS

Today, I finally picked a couple of recipes that worked.  Everything is delicious.

Roasted carrot hummus. Amazing.

Almond butter pumpkin cookies.  Pretty good.  I didn't have enough almond butter so I estimated the rest of the ingredients and I might have estimated wrong....

Pumpkin cinnamon applesauce.  By far, the best thing of the day.  Made with delicious honeycrisp apples.  

And a total FAIL.  I broke my favorite tablespoon.  The other half slid under the refrigerator.  

Right now the delicious smell of cooking apples and cinnamon has been replaced by the slightly grotesque smell of baked salmon as I have been experimenting with Atticus cookies and made him some pumpkin salmon bites.

Now I actually  need to make my FOOD food for the week - teriyaki tempeh and rice, and stop making side dishes and desserts.

We cannot cure the world of sorrows but we can choose to live in joy.
~ Joseph Campbell

A reminder

Twice in the past 3 hours I was reminded how petty my complaints and worries are.  Buck up, Alicia.  It could be far far worse.  Be grateful for what you do have, the time you did have, and for the uncertain future.  

Instructions for living a life:  Pay attention.  Be astonished.  Tell about it.

~ Mary Oliver