Category Archives: Seasons

COVID-19, Events, Family, Health, Inspirational, Least Favorites, Seasons

Things You Do NOT Need to Feel Guilty About Right Now

  • Feeling depressed or anxious
  • Being tired
  • Missing the people you used to hang out with
  • Seeing the people you used to hang out with
  • Clinging to your family
  • Not being able to spend time with your family
  • Sending your kids to school
  • Not sending your kids to school
  • Having a cheap face mask
  • Having the most expensive face mask that exists
  • Not having a job
  • Wishing you didn’t have a job
  • Loving your job
  • Hating work-from-home
  • Loving remote work
  • Fearing the uncertainty of the future
  • Being sad about the world around us
  • Being angry about the world around us
  • Being closed off from the world around us
  • Eating at home
  • Eating out
  • Picking up food to eat somewhere else
  • Going for walks/runs/jogs
  • Cocooning at home
  • Not being able to concentrate on reading
  • Reading more books than ever because you have nothing else to do
  • Being unproductive
  • Being so productive people around you complain
  • Sleeping late
  • Not sleeping well
  • Doing whatever it is that you need to do to survive or even thrive
Favorites, Seasons

September Slow Down

  • Cooler Nights
  • Dappled Sunshine
  • Clouds that Glow Silver
  • Kids Playing in the Evening
  • Favorite Hoodies
  • Red Beginning to Blaze in the Trees
  • Locusts Buzzing
  • Waves of Wheat Fields
  • Tassled Corn
  • Bonfire Smoke Drifting
  • S’mores and Flaming Marshmallows
  • Camp Chairs
  • Live Music in Outdoor Settings
  • Snuggly Blankets
  • Dusk Creeping In
  • Sunsets on the River
  • Crunchy Leaves
  • Combines Clipping Along in the Fields
The sunset reflected in my porch door
Seasons, Travel

Things I’d Like to Do in 2020

  • Travel somewhere new
  • Check at least one more state off my list
  • Finish a first draft of my “Cali” novel
  • Unpack all boxes from moving
  • Finish bathroom remodel (paint, vanity, flooring)
  • Learn how to lay tile (so I can fix kitchen floor)
  • Take piano lessons
  • Start a new hobby — martial arts or community theater
  • Declutter my “save this stuff” stuff
  • Hit my step goal 6 out of 7 days a week
  • Get a hair trim (haven’t done this in a couple years!)
  • Get a fancy new Illinois I.D.

Family, Favorites, Holidays, Inspirational, Nature, Seasons

Things I Am Thankful For

  • My family
  • My friends who are like family
  • Adorable grandbabies
  • My new condo
  • Sunsets
  • Ocean waves
  • Vacations
  • Ice cream
  • Sparkly swimming pools
  • Whitening toothpaste
  • Fall colors
  • Holidays
  • Clean diagnoses
  • Safe transportation
  • Clean water
  • Opportunities
  • Mentors
  • The smell of new books
  • The smell of old books
  • Bonfires
  • The susurrus of wind through trees
  • The Boundary Waters
  • Beaches
  • Laundry in my home
  • YouTube tutorials

No photo description available.