I had a hard day today. In a way that is different than other hard days I have had. It wasn't my kids. I am not sick. It is difficult to explain. I just had a good look at myself and did some evaluating. And sometimes that is hard.
I couldn't decide whether to throw myself on the couch and do absolutely nothing or throw myself on my bed and have a good cry.
We got new carpet in today (well, half of it). I have been painting trim and touch up for days now in preparation. my house is a disaster. I have a picture to prove it. The new carpet is much browner looking than the warm gray I was going for. If I had a candle company I would make a candle called NEW CARPET. I would be a millionaire. And now I really need to suck it up and go paint all of the baseboards and trim in my basement before the "parkit guys" (swabby calls them) come back tomorrow morning. ----- If I can even find my painting clothes.
I think they are in the bathtub to be honest.
David has class tonight and is taking a giant test that he was really nervous about. He studied for it from 7 until midnight last night. And more today. We prayed for him in every prayer today. He leaves for Singapore on Saturday. For a week. Want to come over and hang out?
Sometimes I just want to pour my heart out on this blog. I find that my journal has become more of a venting/deep thinking journal and my blog takes care of the light and happy things in my life. Although, sometimes I feel like telling anyone who wants to hear about my deeper thoughts because maybe you can help me or I can help you.
I wish I knew everyone who reads this blog. Can you do me a favor because I had a hard day? I don't really blog for an audience. As in, I don't blog about current news or trends, tv shows, movies, things you may be interested in. I decided that a while ago because I wanted to stay focused on my family. But I have to say that sometimes blogging can be uncomfortable when you don't know who is reading.
Can you please say hello today? That is the favor I am asking. Whether I know you or not. Even if you have never commented before. If I don't know you personally, that's perfectly fine! where you are from? How did you find my blog? Who is crazier -- Schmeese or Swabby? or me? or Fancypants the crazy bishop?
Tell me happy thoughts: about what you are going to plant in your garden this year, do you have bulbs in your yard that are coming up? What have you eaten lately that is so delicious you can hardly stand it?
I just kind of need some love right now.
63 comments:
Hello new friend! I just barely found your blog a couple of days ago...as a result of your guest post on The Apron Stage. I haven't delved too deeply into your archives, but I love your honesty and your humor and your daily adventures. I am the wife of a bishop too. And the mother of a teenager, a tween, and a toddler. Sometimes, we all just need a hug. I think you are doing amazing things for your friends, family, and ward. Hang in there--things will be brighter in the morning!
Julie in Utah
I'm having a hard time with happy thoughts today too. Glenn is gone for 2 weeks--I'm on day 9 which is historically the day that I lose it. And I'm about there. I'm having "Mean Mom" moments--you know those times when you have to stand up and be mean for the good of your child. And it sucks to face it alone. I don't know how all the single moms do it. And honestly, I feel like a single mom sometimes. Except that I at least have a husband who will come home and share the load. And that is good. It's just hard while he's gone.
I guess I found a happy thought: I didn't realize how much I rely on my good husband's strength. Just day to day. But with him gone, I've turned heart and soul to the Lord to help me with all my problems--the little ones like finding a lost DVD I promised to lend someone to the big ones like how do I respond to a child whose choices are making me fret? And the answers that have come and the way they have come have been so sweet and I am convinced, yet again, that the Lord is there, He loves us and He is waiting to share our load.
I hope that helps somehow.
Hello from Canada!
I found your blog ages ago(I can't even remember how!)and have been lurking ever since. I love Likely Classroom as well - I'm currently studying to become a teacher.
Happy thoughts: Spring is coming! The sun is shining more, the birds are tweeting louder and (best of all) the snow is melting! Time for renewal is near. :)
hi likely,
i found your blog ages ago when azucar shared one of your posts. i like you and hope you have a better day tomorrow! maybe when the parkit guys are done?
Hellooo! You already know me, well...kinda ;0) I hate it when i have 'one of those days' but i think everyone gets them...especially when your new carpet isnt the color you were hoping for..(frustrating!) We are getting carpet soon too..not looking forward to all the furniture moving but it will be nice once its done and overwith :0) Anywho, cheer up charlie..tomorrow is another day :0)
Dearest,
I so miss you. I miss your sweet hugs, your light-up-the-world smiles, your creativity, your beautiful thoughts, your courage. I love reading your blog- always an insight, or a laugh, or realness.
You are inspiring! You know you are the bar that we compare all cool thrift-store finds to? Would Tiff wear this?
When getting dressed for this Sunday: Would Tiff approve? Or yes, "this is a Tiff skirt!" when complimented...
I so love and admire you.
Hey Tiff,
I really do hope you are feeling better soon...those days are not fun but I always find that a couple days later I look back and think, its really not that bad, huh. Love reading your thoughts...see you Thursday! I'll hug you then! :)
Days like that are SO HARD!!! I read your blog often. I'm from Boston and a social work with nutty people. I love your stories with your boys. They are so sweet and special.
good news...It's march and just a little warmer, I finally found out what's stinking up my apartment (it's been a hunt for a few days) and Jillian Michaels is a fantastic trainer and I don't have to leave my apartment! (that's not what's stinking it up either)
Hi Tiffany,
I went to high school with your brother Travis and found your blog through facebook (i think). I have a 16 month old boy Dylan and love reading your blog about your two adorable boys. You give such great ideas on how to keep busy boys occupied and am so jealous of how crafty and creative you are!
This may not be news to most but I just tried Nutella for the first time a few days ago and it turns a boring piece of bread in a donut!! Yummy.
You are doing a fantastic job in raising creative and happy boys and being a supportive wife!
Sending positive thoughts!
Kristy
actually getting off google reader to comment because I think the world of you. when I reread your blog post that they posted on apron stage, I was happy that i knew you and knew how amazing you really are. my happy thought...we moved into a new house and all the kids want is a trampoline and a vegetable garden. I keep thinking about what we are going to plant and how their little hands are going to help me. Thinking of stringing the christmas lights on the back deck to enjoy the warm summer nights. somehow those little summer dreams are keeping me going right now. sending you hugs, and wishing i could send you a handyman and a housekeeper while david is away.
hi. i actually just re-read my journal from a few years ago and there is a whole entry about YOU! i've always admired you - from stories from meliss and your cool 6th graders. but anyway, the whole journal entry was after i had found your blog for the first time and read it for hours. the whole blog world was new to me so i felt weird that i was so interested in someone's life who wasn't a close friend or anything. i felt like i was intruding. but anyway, in this entry i talked about how fun and unique you were and how i wanted to be like that. and it made me analyze my own life - was i still fun? was i still unique? anyway, you are the coolest. i love likely classroom and have used a few ideas - and will use a lot more now that my son is getting a little older. you are the best.
Hi! I'm Brianna! I've commented once before on a post a while ago, I think it was about how we identify ourselves...anyway, it was deep and moving and beautiful and a friend of mine had posted it on her blog and that is how I found you. I've been following and reading since. I just like to know things...I'm nosey!
Tonight I had a delicious cinnimon and sugar twisty donut, and it was everything a donut should be.
Hope things start going better!
You already know me but I love the idea of being able to tell you why I read your blog. I read it 'cause it reminds me of good times and inspires me to do good things. Every time I do something crafty I think of you. Also, I find your kids really charming. I've never met Swabby but those couple of days at your mom's house when Max was about 18 months was all it took for me to be smitten with him. I remember a couple of times he saw me across the room or down the hall and ran into my arms with a smile on his face and I melted.
My happy thoughts are that I'm making a little bird mobile for the baby's room. I'm nesting, nesting, nesting!
Another happy thought: our garden has been planted for two months now (Arizona is weird!) We have tomatoes and zucchini and will add some lettuce soon.
Love you. Hope you shake it off and feel better soon.
Hey there. I had some really good chocolate mousse and Hadley thought that's a funny way to spell it so she laughed all day. I'm sorry that your carpet color isn't just right and I LOVE reading your blog. Thanks to Kryss for showing me the way. My yard isn't even in yet - new house - so no happy thoughts on that front but hopefully tomorrow will be better. And I'd love to come hang out while your hubby is in Singapore!
Hi Tiff! I'm sorry you've had one of those days...I hate those days! It's funny, I just told Nat 'oh well, tomorrow is another day...right?' so I know how you feel! On the brighter side...we can't wait to see you guys next month, Brielle's already making plans! We love you all and miss you!
I've been around for a while, since Nie posted her Mormor hat.
I think I've missed my chance to plant this season. I've got another week or 2 at best before it's too late and the raised beds we were planning to build are not even started yet. I think I'll have to count this season a loss and wait for September.
As for good food, I realized a few weeks back that I honestly prefer the pizza I make to any I can reasonably buy. I count this one of my great accomplishments.
Have a better day tomorrow and I'm sorry your carpet is too brown.
Hi friend. I have had a rough couple of days myself. Maybe I'll shoot you an email, if I ever can find the time... I did have some delicious chocolate dipped strawberries from Edible Arrangements. Do you have those in Maryland? Sometimes I think about blogging all my feelings, but censor them and don't, or sometimes I just show my inner crazy.
Everyone has days like this... some of us even have weeks like this. I think we girls carry such big loads they eventually catch up and we literally feel all the weight. Like my mom used to always tell me when things were rough, "This too shall pass." The future holds so much potential. The excitement will come back-- maybe as the snow melts. Spring is just around the corner :)
I've been reading your blog forever. Its my way of getting my Tiffany fix :) If only you still lived just down the road... I'd be over and we could have some FUN! My garden?? It only contains tomatoes... my time is spent gardening 3rd grade minds these days. Those, however, are blooming quite nicely. Who is crazier?? I'll call it a tie :)
Love you :) Give the carpet some time... I bet you'll find that it was the best choice after all!
Oh yeah... the best way to get rid of the blues...
LISTEN TO SOME BON JOVI!!!
p.s. I wish you had come with us :)
I LOVE YOU STARGIRL!!!!!!!!!! I ate banana bread today that I made with half normal flour and half whole wheat. I actually thought it was good, and I thought of YOU! Miss Healthy pantz!
Love you!
Hello!
I just thought I'd leave my 2 cents and let you know that I read your blog everyday! I love it! I love that you were my 6th grade teacher, and you have 2 kids, and I'm only 18 and just about to graduate high school and I can still relate and enjoy the things you write about. I can almost hear your voice and your laugh when I am reading your posts! It's so fun! To this day you are still quite an inspiration and role model in my life and you always will be! I will never forget my favorite 6th grade teacher! I'm so glad we still keep in touch and that you DO have a blog so I can always see what you are up to!
Love you!
Some days are just like this, some unidentifiable feeling that things aren't right. Nothing big, just the totality of small things. Those are hard days for me, too. I know I'm blessed, I know I'm lucky, I know I have been given so much. And some days? I'm just a little blue.
Well, I love the color blue.
Just like I love you.
I am in the same boat as Julie (the first commenter. I love your blog already, and I hope tomorrow is a brighter day. I getting engaged soon, which is exciting, and still a secret so I should probably tell the whole blogging world. But it's happy so there you go. There will be red sunflowers and yellow rununculus, which is charming delightful word, at the wedding, and it will be at the Salt Lake temple where my Grandma works with the brides.
Cheer up dear :) Paint something secret on the base boards.
Hi from the South of France, Aix en Provence, where I met Tiff and her family years ago and this is how I came to visit your beautiful blog. Reading you and many others gives me the opportunity to "practice" English and I love seeing how you live, America is for me the best place to be. My husband and I are disabled and Jacques cannot get out of our tiny flat so we enjoy seeing all the wonderful photos everyone shares on blogs and it makes us so happy. Sending you our best greetings, and if you travel, please come and visit us! Tiff can tell you more about us. (if you know several Tiffs, I mean Brielle and Dean's mom).
Hello - just came here via The Apron Stage - it's a lot of fun to read about your life as a Bishop's wife - my husband is Bishop too - though he is coming up on 7 years and our youngest is now 9 so we are at very different stages.
Love you! Hang in there! Love your blog, love our stories and your pictures! It's going to get better. The seminary kids say the 4th Article of Faith this way: "We believe the first principles and ordinances of the gospel are, first, faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, second, repentance, third, baptism by immersion for the remission of sins, fourth laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost, fifth, enduring to the end."
I read your blog scruffy kitten- thanks for painting with me last night!
Love David
Hey, So you don't know me but we have a mutual friend Emily W. who's here in San Antonio. Last year she linked your blog to hers and I've been following yours ever since. I love how real you keep things and how you just blog about the everyday little matters. I love your preschool blog and have found lots of great ideas for my little ones. Hang in there Im sure today is going to be wonderful :)
"There is sunshine in my soul today...for Jesus is my light!"
Even on harder than hard days, even if it's way down deep, I know we have it!
Much love to you...even if I'm a day late!
Hi Tiffany. I spent the last three days feeling BLAH and down and pretty much did spend the days laying around watching Lily play and reading her books because it didn't involve me getting up and doing anything...lol!
Sometimes I think it is so hard to be a mom and do house stuff all day, and work so hard at keeping the kids happy. Sometimes we need time outs too : )
...So my most delish thing that I ate lately...I am sad to admit this but a BK cheeseburger...lol! I am not a fan of fast food and hardley ever eat it, but MAN that burger just made me happy.
In my garden...I want to plant to much I think I need to add an acre to my yard. I really want a spot to grow a few strawberry plants, and some melon. I had all veggies last year and now I want some fruits too.
My bulbs are comming up, and as pretty as they look and as ready as I am for spring I do not like the bulbs. We did not plant them, and they are really messy looking. I tried to dig them all up last year and I planted some flowering plants instead...well I missed THOUSANDS of bulbs and they are comming up anyways. Hopefully they do not ruin the plants I put in.
Now this is forever long...hang in there. I love reading your blog! Your a great momma and are so creative! AND a great friend!
Tiffany, I know things get hard sometimes, and at times overwhelming. Remember, we are going to see Annie on Saturday... "The Sun WILL come out tomorrow".
Your children are adorable and loveable, because you take such good care of them. Your beautiful smile makes their hearts feel warm.
We love you!
I've been checking out your blog since your sister in laws posted something on FB about those cute bow ties. I think you are great! You have an amazing style to your home, clothes and motherhood. I enjoy reading about what goes on with you and your cute boys. Kids say the cutest things. When I am feeling blah, I think back to something they did or said that was funny and it brings a smile to my face and makes me realize what's really important.
Here's a funny one from our 5 yr old at the time (he's now 7): I can see because I have good eye contection.
HELLO! i read your blog because one time, when i was teaching english in china, my best friend and your little sister showed it to me. through her, i fell in love with your whole entire family, even though i have only met two of your cousins (collin and tracy). i love reading about your sweet little family and the funny things your kids do. you are a very special person, i know because you are cortney's big sister and that is really something. xoaleksi from FL
Hi Tiffany,
I'm sorry to hear you're feeling down. I've been feeling that way lately too...I blame the gloomy weather. We should get together and hang out soon. I owe you a trip up there since you've been down here TWICE recently.
Thanks for being such a good Mom, you're an inspiration. I hope that doesn't sound too cliche. Anyway, Holden loves to see pictures of Max and Oliver on your blog. He thinks they are pretty cool kids.
Hope you're feeling better today!
Hugs,
Lauren
My happy thankful thought last night was I was so glad that it was still daylight after 6:00. That means so much!
Hope that a good night of sleep helps with today. If not- there is always tomorrow!
I'm another reader you don't know. I've had many days like the one you're describing, despite adoring my life. It happens!
So, I sit here in my living room in rural AZ and read your blog here and there. I found you (and a few other faves) thanks to Azucar's link.
I personally have stopped blogging recently due to similar feelings, but I love the peeks into life that blogging can offer. The adorable uniqueness and sameness of strangers' lives.
Thanks for sharing, and I hope your new carpet grows on you!
I'm another Apron Stage reader . . . and I just hit your follow button. I love how you combine creativity and reality and joy all together. Thanks for being willing to share a piece of yourself. Hope tomorrow's better. :) And when I'm feeling down, I go for chocolate. Not too much. And almost always dark. Totally does the trick.
Tiff- Hey stranger! I found your blog a couple weeks ago and love it. I love reading about your cute family and all your adventures. It reminds me of all the energy and smiles you always had when we played soccer. Sorry about the rough day. I hope it helps to know that you aren't alone. There are so many people that love you and know what an amazing person you are. When days like that roll around in my life I do just what you said in your blog and take it easy and hang with the kids instead of "homemaker" stuff. Sometimes us moms and wives just need a break. I am so glad that I found your blog. Hope tomorrow is a better day!
Meesh
Tiffany,
I ADORE you. I have followed your blog for a couple of years now but I'm really bad about commenting. I LOVE your writing style, the way you mother, your sense of humor, how incredibly talented you are, your teaching ideas, your deep spirituality that never comes off preachy or fake...I just really like you. I'm sorry you've been feeling down. Just know that you have lots of people that love and care about you. I think it's so great that you are able to share your feelings and give us all the opportunity to share how we feel about you. Life is hard, isn't it? Just know that you aren't alone and things will get better. Hang in there!
Oh sister. You got a lot of love going on right here and I hope you are not surprised. I'm not. Everything that everyone is saying makes perfect sense and is so true.You are a wonderful sister, friend, wife and especially a wonderful mother.I bet when Heavenly Father asked all his children in heaven who wanted to come down to you they all raised there hands and jumped up and down, "pick me! pick me!" Max and Oliver are the lucky ones.
I read your blog. I read it because you are my sister. I read it because you are a good storyteller. You're funny and unfortunately its pretty much the only way I get to feel apart of my nephews lives. I don't have a garden, but I will be helping mom with hers. LOTS of tomatoes. I think you are the craziest in that bunch, but I think Max is a close second. Then again, Oliver can really let his red hair down and go nuts when he listens to HEART and David gets a little crazy after a few "delicious hot shmoes (smores)." Ok...it's a 4-way tie. Crazy is the new sane. I hope today is better. You know the cure for a "just one of those days" day is right?......lava game. If I were there we would play the hot lava game and then after that I would get you a spoonful of peanut butter decorated with sprinkles and frosting. Turns every "blah" day around. I love you, sister.
My name is Melissa and I stalk you from across the street. I am a stay at home mom. When I say stay at home that is what I mean. I watch other peoples children during the day which makes it almost impossible for me to exit my house most days.:) When I think of Tiffany, the words thoughtful, playful, my great friend, full of life, an inspiration........
they all come right to my mind
Yes I do have flower bulbs comming up in my garden, 38 to be exact (I just went and counted) I am so excited for spring to come. Early AM walks??
I love you, and I love your carpet. I told Dan last night that I would consider that color as one of our picks. It looks really nice. I am sorry you are having an off day, want to come and play?? I love you!
Tiffany....I LOVE YOU!!!
You bring sunshine to all of our days. I didn't know David was leaving again on Sat. Let's have a big party. I will come up again and this time really bring Chipotle and we can hang out.
My garden is my little babies...and one is crying right now, but I love love you! Talk to you later.
OH T- loved reading everyone's comments (skimmed). It made me really laugh when Linda introduced herself... HAHAHA! Oh man, for some reason that killed me.
I love you and am so grateful that you're my Sis-in-law.
I was in tears just today because life seems too busy and like I can't get it all done. I feel like my kids don't listen and I feel like I need to be more patient. It's easy to feel down. I guess you asked for happy thoughts and not what was making me down! :)
I hope you think that forward that I just sent you was funny about being a kid in the 80's?!?!
Here's a happy thought: buttered popcorn made like rice crispy treats. It is TO DIE for. Make the butter and marshmallows like you normally would in the microwave or whatever... then take the popcorn (make sure there are no kernels) and stir it all up. Let it sit for an hour. We don't push it into a pan, we just leave it in a heap on a pan covered with tin foil and when its ready you tear off a chunk. ENJOY!
And I do want to come over and hang out.
Some days are like that! Even in Australia or Utah or Maryland!
Sorry you had a difficult day! I've commented before and you've wandered over to my blog and commented before. I live in Northern Utah, have 3 boys and I read your blog to inspire me to step out and be creative with them. They loved the dipping lunch, and several of the games from your classroom.
I found your blog from Nie and kept reading because you lift me up.
I hope tomorrow is better!
Cynthia
I'm delurking today to help boost those late-winter blues. You are an amazing person - I've been reading your blog since before you switched to this site (and before you started Likely Classroom). I commented on your old blog to get to this one. I'm from wayyy upstate NY in the eastern corner, smushed between VT and Canada. I'll be quite honest here - you helped me remember being a good Mom was most important through my divorce, and then in a way inspired my journey to go back to school (for teaching!) and now I'm two months away from my wedding and I'm blessed that I have so many great examples of family (including yours!)to help guide me! I hope all of these comments help you feel a bit better - life is heavy sometimes...for good and sometimes not so good. Thank you for all you do - your creativity, your writing, your laughs.
Hello! I don't recall how I found you, but I know that you've been in my 'favourites' list since that very first day. I'm so sorry you're feeling low, I wish I had words of comfort and wisdom but sometimes I'm at a loss as to why the world is blue-tinted. I found a website recently that always has something to make me think and smile - http://gardenofsimple.tumblr.com/ (I have no connection to it, honest, just passing on some sunshine).
We have had a few days of bright, cold weather with the faintest hint of spring in the air, so wonderful to feel. Snowdrops cover my lawn, and daffodils are starting to poke their green leaves through the frozen ground. Just knowing that spring is really, truly coming helps to lift my spirits when I'm under a cloud.
Thank you for being honest, bold and spirited through your blog - you lift me up without even knowing me, and I hope that the outpouring of love for you in these comments lifts you a little.
Nicola in England
We arre having a bit of a rough time here, too... I'm sick all day every day and Tyler is too busy for his own good. Both of us stressed and not so sure what the future holds. But guess what. We didn't know that we had crocusts in our yard and two bright purple little crocusts just popped up earlier this week. It definitely brightened my mood :) Love you and miss you, sis!
Oh dear friend. Do not be OAP. :)
Wish you were coming to Vegas with us girls tomorrow. We will laugh and eat in your honor. Hope your week gets better!!
I love a line from Anne of Green Gables that goes something like - tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it. regardless of mistakes, a new day can always help. I hope you are feeling the love by now. And I'm sorry you had a hard day. I hope today is better. Self reflection can be so hard.
I have you on my google reader, so I'm a regular here. And I love how open you are. How real you are. And how fun you are. It makes me want to be more of each of those. I'm having a hard time lately in my own blogging. I'm just not feeling it. Sometimes because I don't know who is reading. I kind of want to go private, but then I love the blogs I so often read that are not private so I go back and forth.
Lastly, I for the first time am going to actually have space to plant a garden this year and this is so exciting. I haven't even decided what yet. But lots of herbs, tomatoes, probably beans and cucumbers. And then we've got to do flowers for the front. Spring is just around the corner and what an exciting prospect.
Curry Fest! You need a Curry Fest with good friends! That was always oh, so much fun. I miss the 9th ward--we still own our house there and I'm tempted from time to time to move back in. Duran read an entry I had written on my blog and told me I was starting to sound snarky and down--I'm not but think that maybe we all need to do a little cyber venting now and again.
hehehe... you asked for it. i'm impressed that you have 51 followers.
1. hi.
2. chipotle. it was lovely. we'll have to go back together sometime.
3. i love you. hang in there. spring is almost here!
4. my week days are now busy, but i'm free next friday morning (3/12). wanna play?
I am not surprised by your popularity...YOU ROCK!
Love you, Tif! Next time you're on the west coast visiting your family, let's hang out. I know ALL ABOUT hard days, believe me. Hope today is better for you!
Tiff, you are so loved. And so cute, even when you're having a bad day.
I've had three busy days in a row- and that doesn't make me happy. So I'm taking today off. And I'm going to do whatever I want ... even if that means laying on the couch with my boys and reading books. Forget cleaning, laundry, and my messy bedroom.
But something that makes me really happy lately- chocolate covered almonds. I love them.
And you.
I feel bad that I haven't checked blogs in a few days...mainly because I had a breakdown just three days ago myself. Rusty looked at me and I cried. Overwhelmed, stressed, happy, hating my four kid mom gut...I'm not sure. I think it was a combo of everything. So - I love you and I'm SO glad that you make me feel so happy when I read your blog. You are so wonderful! And because you asked...we have brocolli, lettuce (several kinds), radishes, squash and beets growing right now in our garden.
I just found your lovely blog today. I am a former Bishop's wife. My sweetie served in 2 different states for a total of 7 years but some how our family not only survived ...but thrived. Thanks to the prayers of many and lots of blessings from above.
It's hard for me to imagine the harsh Winter that is pummeling everyone all over the country. Even we've had snow 3 times this winter which is unheard of in Sugar Land, Texas! But for us it's a novelty not a ...hunker down and buy lots of toilet paper event. (Though that is the case for us when hurricanes are headed our way!) My son and daughter at BYU reported that they were experiencing blizzard conditions just last night.
So here, between dustings of snow I too have felt the need for renewal. For me that translates into hurry, hurry get everything planted before the horrid, humid heat hits us!!!
I recently spent a relaxing day browsing through the beautiful flowers at our local home depot. Every color and hue and it nearly took my breath away. Of course I had to buy ...a LOT of everything!
I have been happily weeding and planting ever since and can now enjoy my own little garden of Eden. The multi-colored pansies are my favorite followed closely by my cold weather veggies already peaking up through the dirt. Oh ...and did I mention the strawberries already bearing tiny green berries?
This Saturday after our Stake Women's conference I will check out the local African Violet Society's annual show. No doubt I will bring home a few new beauties to add to my collection. Then it's off to the farmers market to check out their newest shipment of vegetable plants that should be arriving some time later today.
Not to worry, Spring is just around the corner and in the meantime ...I'll be sending some golden sunshine your way!
just a thought, thank you so much for your kind comment. I really appreciate that you took the time to write. I am so happy to know that you not only survived, but thrived! I welcome any advice or words of wisdom at all! I try to be so supportive and helpful and sometimes I don't feel I am doing enough.
thank you for your beautiful thoughts about flowers and gardening. Flowers own a large part of my heart.
I admit, I am an occasioonal lurker. Your name IS right next to mine on Mariah's blog roll!
Good heavens.
I have had so, so many days like that.
I am in Maryland, too. I felt like I should look up Louise Plummer tonight, and I was happy to because she seems to cheer me up and straighten around my perspective nicely. I looked for her at the Apron Stage, which is where you did a guest blog posting, and then I clicked through and found you here. As in, minutes ago.
Hello! I so much admire you for being able to reach out for help when you need it. I'm pretty sure I would heal faster if I was more able to do that.
We have spinach and basil both growing-- spinach in pots, basil not yet transplanted from the jug of water which is keeping its roots from drying out. My father saved them both because they had roots that came with them (as we got them from the co-op). I have been so worried about him being alone in the house all day-- it really would cause mental deterioration in anyone-- but he won't let us get a pet (doesn't want to be sad when they die); just now it occurred to me that plants are a kind of company, too, especially if you are invested in keeping them alive, and you are good at that sort of thing. Which he is. So, this is cheerful.
Also, I took some basil leaves from the top of the aforementioned soon-to-be-transplanted, and put them on a pizza with (cooked) lentils and green and black olives and no cheese because that makes me sick, and even my father who tends to be fairly indifferent to even the most magnificent (in my view) of my culinary creations SNARFED half of the pizza while I was out for my walk. Which walk was only about half an hour long. So I made another one, the next day, and we had between us also polished it off in under twenty-four hours.
Also, Grandma is out of the ICU and, they keep saying, will soon be home from the hospital, and Mom should be getting back sometime next week from visiting her. Also, I have not been to a funeral in over a year, and not because I was shirking going, either. I just know fewer people in Maryland. Or, fewer people who die? Anyway. And, there are no children in the hospital, of my immediate relations and friends. All good.
And this comment is QUITE long enough. But do know that I send cheerfulness (but not, you know, the annoying kind that makes you feel both invalidated and like you want to strangle the cheer-giver) in your general direction. Perhaps we shall see each other in the temple some time (thinking about the most likely place for two Mormons in Maryland to randomly meet), though of course it is very unlikely that we shall know each other even if we do.
(And I dropped my Physics class and I feel like I can breathe again and I am unjustified-ly proud of having figured out, the second time 'round, what the Spirit was trying to tell me. Hooray! 'K. I really am ending now.)
WOW! DO YOU FEEL THE LOVE NOW????? Holy cow you have 61 comments Tiff. Azucar was right, everyone has those days- I was SO RELIEVED and called Monday's sunshine my saving grace because we could go outside and not have my kids sitting there watching movies all day, which is what they had been doing the last two weeks- teething twins and mommy needs a break. Like- FOR A LONG TIME break. :) LOL!!! I love you- you know that- and I've always thought you are super amazing- one of the most amazing talented interesting caring and creative people I've ever met. Were you on your period? Those hormones'll give you a run for your money. ;) Feel the love girl cause it came your way in like 62 comments now- I CAN"T BELIEVE IT! I KNOW that many people don't read my blog. HA! PEACE OUT
Tiffany! I just started reading your blog the other day and have enjoyed it so much. It's great to see Dave and the boys and to be able to relate to so much of what you are writing about. I can't believe how much the boys have grown and how busy you must be. This is SO incredibly late, but thank you for the outfit that you sent for Parker. It was my favorite newborn outfit on him. I was overwhelmed when he was born but over the last 6 months it feels like the kids have gotten just slightly easier to manage. Not to mention, Parker is a sweet and easy tempered baby which is all the difference. I'd love to get the families together (which is no easy feat and won't happen by accident) but it would be so much fun. I hope you are well and I can't wait to read more...
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