The Goose Beary Shop!

Hubby picked up a copy of the local magazine that interviewed me a few months back. Here's a quick picture of the piece.

My Weekly Five

Weekly 5:

My view for the vast majority of last week.

1) I was sick last week. The sickest I have been since having mono in college. It was miserable and I pretty much felt like a wimp until Saturday when I finally went to the doctor and was told I had shingles and a secondary infection that was really nasty. Don't feel so guilty for spending most of last week in bed now.

Gifts from a friend.

2) I am incredible thankful for family and friends who stepped in and took care of us last week. Josh's parents and our good friends Chris and Angie stepped in and tagged team the girls Monday morning through Thursday morning as well as part of Friday and Saturday. Friends also brought meals, coffee, flowers, ect. One gal even drove over to the doctors office to sit with me becuase my fever was so bad I couldn't stop shaking.

3) I have learned not to pay bills while feverish. It has horrible results.

This may actually replace Friends for me!

4) We started watching Big Bang Theory and are really enjoying it. It sort of reminds me of Friends in a way but definitely geared toward my generation a bit more. We have spent the past few evenings working our way through the first two seasons.

Baking Cookies with Daddy.

5) Sunday was a wonderful day. We staid home from church since our class tends to have a lot of babies in it and I didn't want to risk giving any of them chicken pox. It was wonderful and full but in a restful way. We went to the grocery store so I wouldn't have to do it own my own today. We came home and made breakfast, and baked cookies. We took naps. We danced. Josh mowed part of the back yard. We made sweet tea. Friends came over with dinner and we shot of a potato gun till the neighbors got mad and then just sat and watched the kids play on the swing set. We simply enjoyed each other and the fact that summer is almost here.

I would love to hear y'alls weekly five. Maybe even do a link up? What do you think? 

Hello Summer

Hot day.
Car naps.
Needed blessings.
Cold lemonade.

Happy May Day!

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Today I am...

Today I am...

Busy in the kitchen.
Experimenting with favorite recipes.
Enjoying the fog (now that I am done driving in it).
Enjoying the chance to lighten someone else's load.
Giving myself some grace.
Taking time to tickle and rest and breath deeply.

Good Friends, Good Food

In our house we celebrate Birthday Month. With the girls it's sort of inevitable by the time we do a family dinner, family from out of town visits, we do a party with friends, we do a special daddy daughter date, and a special mommy daughter date, it's been about a month.

With Josh and I it's more about little things. Often times birthday month becomes our excuse for things we would do already. Like back rubs or Josh stopping to get me a candy bar on his way home.  Granted Josh is far better at coming up with "birthday month" surprises then I am. This year has been extra special though. Since my birthday is early in the month we started the month two weeks before so we are technically in birthday month already. :)

It started with a visit from my sister-in-law whom is also one of my very best friends. She was in visisting her family and meeting her brand new niece. Her parents live two hours away from me so she drove down for the day and night last week. It happened to be the day after her birthday so we had a blast eating good food, watching Survivor and celebrating her and her pregnancy!!

Friday we went to breakfast with Emmy and then she headed back to her parents and we came home and my amazing husband did a ton of house work and yard work including hanging a wall fixture my father-in-law helped me put together last summer. Love it!!!

Sunday was coffee and dessert with two amazing women. God has blessed me so much with friends who get me and love me and understand me. 

Monday and Tuesday it was a visit from my mom. Grocery shopping, and chili for dinner, and a visit to a private school we are looking into for Bear. Even a visit to Barnes and Nobles to read books and play with the trains. 

Wednesday it was dinner at Olive Garden after my same two friends took me out for a birthday gift...

LOVING my nose ring!!!! Beautiful and an actual piece of jewelry. Not just a surgical steel stud.

And today it's three kinds o f bread. 

Pretty great start to birthday month.

Sunday Night.

Tea. Cheese cake. Conversation. Being known. Home defined.