Fall Sun

The best kind of sun, the best heat, is on an early fall day.

There is no humidity.

In fact, it's a little chilly out even. There's a nice breeze going and you can kind of even smell apple cider in the air mixed with pumpkin.

You sit outside, radiating in this bright brilliant heat. It beams down on you with such intensity, it soaks through your clothes and long sleeves to create this happy warmth now encased in your skin.

It encircles you, protects you. It's not too hot, just enough to wrap around you to replace someones arms that you love. Enough to temporarily replace their body heat around you.

And thats what i love about the fall sun.

Bubbles on a Beautiful Day

Hey all!

So, lately....life has been good. I've been around family I haven't seen in quite awhile that live a good full day's drive away, I have been blessed with beautiful weather, my baby sister just topped off  phenomenal performances (6 performances!) of Hairspray, as the lead- Tracy, I am unpacking my college-life and adding it to my home life (this is HARD), and re-packing for Europe (Also Hard), I've been hanging out with the best people in the world, I've been doing a LOT of thinking, a lot of reading, and a lot of listening to good music.....but most importantly, I've been blowing lots of bubbles in the sun :-)

Believe it or not, blowing bubbles is extremely de-stressing and I promise it works just as well as Prozac. Go try it if you're feeling under the weather. Bubbles make everyone happy. Its like, a given. I think it even says it on the bottle.

So, this is a picture post today. Lots and lots of pictures. This is also a new app that I downloaded a long time ago and used it once and I was like, "what the heck is this? I don't get it. This is stupid." And I didnt use it for a couple months. Then, I tried it randomly one day and loved the way the pics came out. Now I can't stop using it. Its called "Hipstamatic" for those of you who own/love your iphone and photography. :-)

Unfortunately, I don't think the camera could pick up any of the bubbles, considering it was a struggle to jug the task of blowing lots of bubbles for them to go catch and then taking pictures with my other hand. But use your imagination; I promise bubbles actually existed.

Cute bubble blowing gadget.

Watching the bubbles.

"Can I give a bubble to my doggie?"

"Can we play with the hose?"......"No."

This has my finger in the top which angers me but the rest of the picture is just TOO CUTE to exclude- They thought it wise to try and break into their parents side of the house. I just sat back and watched, and um...supervised. Cute picture though. :-)

"THere is a PERSON that LOOKS LIKE ME in there!"

"Swinging" all by herself. This is a huge milestone.

Curious.

I promise she's not dead. She was looking at a bug. For a good twenty minutes. She definitely does not have ADHD, like me.

I tried so hard to get a picture of her showing her face, but it was really hard. She's the most adorable girl and yet moves every time she see's the camera.

Sort of got one. She saw a bird.

playing...

Swinging with the flip-flop shot :-)

Being Adventurous

"Snowboarding?"

I LOVE this picture. It was the cutest thing. We were outside for a good two hours and when we first came outside, the boy saw the crescent of the moon. He says, "Hey look, the moon is out and the sun at the same time! How did the moon come out!?" So I gave them a mini-science lesson on the sun and the moon and how they sort of work and they looked at me like it was just too much to believe, and I LOVE that. And then about two hours later, as seen in this picture, the little girl looked up and exclaimed, "The moon MOVED!" And then proceeded to stare at it continuously to see if it would keep moving. So I then gave another mini-lesson on how the moon and stars and sun move during the night and day and it was the cutest and coolest thing ever. Just to see their minds process this new interesting information is something you can never forget. Love it.

Let me remind you these are not my children, these are the lovebugs I babysit often. I could only hope my children one day in the future could only be this adorable!


Thanks for reading, earthlings!!

~A Writer (and photographer ;) ) in a nurse's body


P.S.- EUROPE IN TWO WEEKSS!!!!!! So psyched. Be ready for a lot of blogs soon about Europe. My apologies in advance.

Happiness in a Bottle

Do you ever wish you could take a happy moment and save it for later? A happy scent? A happy thought? Happy conditions....happy weather? A happy moment?

OK my first (and maybe only I really can't predict the future) example is this:
It's a beautiful day out. Absolutely gorgeous. Blue skies. Not one cloud. Perfect temperature. Perfect breeze. People tossing footballs outside, laying on beach blankets because hey, it has rained for the past 3 weeks and today it's gorgeous. Of course, it makes sense that you have to spend some time outside. It is so overwhelmingly happy that you just dont know what to do with yourself. Part of you wishes that you could capture this perfect moment...so you can save it for later. So when youre having a really bad day, you can open up that bottle and enjoy a little bit of what you saved. But life isn't like that. It's jut sometimes, i wish I could spread the joy out over a longer time span. Like on that gorgeous day you are happy for that moment but you know that dark days ahead, an pretty soon you're gonna want nothing more than to be back on that perfect day. When you're stuck in the middle of your worst day, how many of you have said, "oh my, I took that day for granted. I am having the worst day ever and how much would I rather be sitting on a beach blanket ?

Then there is another aspect. Let's say it's a gorgeous day. But it's Bren gorgeous for the past two weeks too. Rain however is in the forecast, soon. So you know that you should stay outside and enjoy this day but man, you're a little tired with it being gorgeous. Too much joy. I've been there. And part of me really just wants to go in my tiny room and open the window, put on my sweats, crawl under the covers and study there instead with a cup of tea.
The point of a gorgeous day is to make you happy. To help you enjoy this day given to us. But what if snuggling under the covers, "wasting" the nice day, makes you equally as happy? But there is this nagging thought that itches at you to get your ass outside because it is too nice to be inside. Maybe it's because I come from a childhood generation where that was a rule. My mother never let us stay inside if it was sunny out. Heck, one day I was home sick from school and we went outside together because it was sunny. We always played outside when we could, and enjoyed the rainy rays inside and that was that. Do I have this innate rebelling thing that wants to therefore crawl under the covers because I spent so many years outside when it was nice? Or do I feel guilty and unhappy for staying inside because of that?

Then there are those times when life Is just so great. Or you are experiencing something that you want to remember forever. Whether it be that you're at a concert and it is friggen awesome, or you are taking pictures in an old village. I have moments where I'm like, wow I wish I could find a way to just replay this whenever. It is a moment so good and you know that you will miss it and want more details about that memory... Later on.

Well that's it for now. I've had this blog idea in mind today and I finally decided to act on it because today I was riding on my bike, and the temperature was perfect, and I love my bike, and I wanted the moment to last forever....


P.S. - as I was writing this, I was sitting outside my library with a lot of other people and it was gorgeous night, and the nighttime lights were on, and it was so perfect and happy. Then, it started raining. Just sayin.

P.S.S.- the picture I attached is from the other day when I was biking and I stopped to sit on a bench down by the lake and it was just picture perfect. I had to take a picture to help me remember :-)