A Quote
"We are all worms. But I do believe I am a glowworm."-Winston Churchill
Good ole Winston.
A Book
After wanting to read it for years, last night I finally picked up the first in C.S. Lewis's space trilogy, Out Of The Silent Planet. Have any of you read it? I've heard it has a lot of the same charm as The Chronicles Of Narnia, and if that's true, I'm here for it!
A Bit Of Nature
This tree produces the prettiest pine cones, and my kids even extracted the seeds from one of them.
A Recommendation
I have mentioned before that I subscribed to Skylar's scent club in the spring. It's $20 a month, and they send you a roller ball with a seasonal scent (it's also supposed to be "natural" and "clean", if that matters to you). Basically I am a sucker for anything that smells good, and I've really been enjoying it!
Anyway, I have to say, I love the scents they have sent out this fall. November's is "By Firelight" and it's a smokey-spiced-honey sort of smell. It's so good. I really wish they would let you buy extras of your favorites from the scent club, I'm going to be sad when I run out.
A Moment Of Happiness
After letting my kids watch too much TV last week, I'm re-imposing screen time limits this week. They played hard yesterday, and I finally let them watch a show last night. I picked an animated version of Ken Ham's "D Is For Dinosaur" which is one of those shows that has a calming influence on my kids (rather than hyping them up). I turned the corner, and there they were, my gaggle of children sprawled out in the playroom, watching their movie. And for a second I just had a flashback to when it was hard to get pregnant and I wished for a handful of pajama-clad kids to be watching a cartoon in the next room while I cooked dinner. They are often boisterous, and rowdy, and tiring; and also sweet, and precious, and my dream come true. I don't want to ever forget that.
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