Seeing the Good

6am Little Goat coffee dates.

Sundays with dad.

These ladies who I live each day with!

The children in my life.
How they light up my days, make me laugh, and unconditionally love.

This view everyday.

Never too cold for a lakeside picnic.

"He was sure that it made no difference to her on which day he appeared: for her, every day was the same, and when each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises." :: Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist (27)

Floor Finished

Truth be told : Ash and I had a Friday night free and decided, "Hey let's paint the floor!"

It had been on the lily DIY list for awhile... it was time to tackle for winter.

square-by-square

Armed and loaded with patio floor paint, we set out upon taping our kitchen in mathematically arranged diamonds, using the linoleum squares as a reference. 

white blocks first.

Our freshly motivated hearts quickly calculated which diamonds to be white and which to be black... but what we didn't know yet was that every other square would be taped slightly off, it takes multiple coats of paint to make patio paint look good, we would eventually tear up all the tape and go square-by-square, and the whole floor needed to be edged with a tiny paintbrush.

A slight nightmare...

So it's no surprise that this took more than a Friday night.

chocolate cake helped.

3 weeks later, I guess I can say it was worth it. But boy was this hardwork.

finishing never felt better. celebration!

From Ash

< all I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen >

After a weekend of haphazard lily adventures, Ashley slipped me this Emerson quote.

It really struck me that when you do life with someone, you see deeper into the heartbeat of their life - what they're about, which experiences have shaped them, and what they need in each season. 

She knows my heart & the words I need to hear.

I am thankful for this dear friend and roommate.