Final Friday Favorites

Final Friday Favorites

Happy Friday friends! This week was truly fabulous for me, with the highlight being a return to Hawkes Landing after an 8-week absence. Hawkes Landing was just as beautiful as ever. Thanks to Mother Nature for the perfect weather with just enough cloud cover to make a pretty picture. Thank you to our kind neighbors…

Friday favorites: butterflies abound

Friday favorites: butterflies abound

Happy Friday friends! This week has been an emotional one around here, as I’ve already talked about. Amid the sorrow, there has been much joy. I have always loved butterflies, but since Bryan’s death, they have come to have special significance, as I described in a Facebook post shortly after he passed: This morning, I…

Friday favorites: more hiking & a surprise visit

Friday favorites: more hiking & a surprise visit

Happy Friday friends! I hope this week brought many smiles to your face. Mine brought more hiking (two in one week!) and a surprise visit from a friend. What could be better than that? Let’s start with the hikes. The first one was Lake Catherine via Brighton Lakes Trail with two of my lovely sisters. Spending…

Friday favorites: thank you notes

Friday favorites: thank you notes

Happy Friday! It’s been a while since I’ve done thank you notes, so I think it’s time. Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” ~William Arthur Ward Thank you Cindy for inviting me to go on a hike. Thank you Mother Nature for providing this grandeur (Wild…

Friday favorites: one busy week!

Friday favorites: one busy week!

Happy Friday my friends! I hope all is well with you. It has been an unusually eventful week for me. As always, I have much for which to be grateful. This week marked the long-awaited moving day from our old office to a brand new beautiful building. To be honest, it was bittersweet. I’ve worked…

Friday favorites: a word game

Friday favorites: a word game

Happy Friday friends! When you were a child (or even more recently), did you ever play that word game where you take the letters in your name and choose a word beginning with each letter that describes you. Well, today I’m going to use the word F-R-I-D-A-Y to share someone of my favorite things. F…

Friday favorites: my week in pictures

Friday favorites: my week in pictures

Happy Friday! They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so in the interest of space, for today’s Friday Favorites, I share the highlights of my week in pictures. Friday, I got my nails done by the lovely Meghan. How she paints these tiny designs freehand is a wonder to me. I am grateful…

Friday favorites: facing fear

Friday favorites: facing fear

This week’s Friday Favorites is a little different. Instead of listing a bunch of the things for which I am grateful, I’m going to focus on one particular feat – facing fear and coming out victorious. Today I rode a bike for the first time in literally decades. Earlier in the week, my boss announced…

Friday favorites: family fun time

Friday favorites: family fun time

May means Mother’s Day and year-end activities at the grandchildren’s schools, which equals lots of opportunities for family fun time. Keaton played his final high school soccer game and was honored, along with his teammates, during Senior Night. I could not be more proud of this young man. He graduates with honors and very nearly…

Friday favorites: a beautiful day in the neighborhood

Friday favorites: a beautiful day in the neighborhood

Happy Friday! It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood! Actually, it’s been a beautiful week around here–weatherwise and otherwise! 🙂 I hope yours was the same. Saturday was perfect football weather (yes, you can find football in the spring if you know where to look). These girls are 12 years old and fierce! I couldn’t…