Amazing Day #16: the little pharologist

Instead of writing a new post today, I'm gonna' revisit one from two years ago today. 

We had finished up our commitment to live and work at the Big Sable Point Lighthouse near Ludington.  

It was a pretty AMAZING opportunity!

While there we met some AMAZING people including several pharologists. (That's your vocabulary word for the day.  Go ahead; Google it) I loved listening to their stories - especially this young one.  Such an AMAZING little guy!

You can read other posts here from our two weeks of working in the lighthouse and living in the keeper's quarters.

Amazing Day #16: 5 years, 5 months

Well, this is interesting.

According to Facebook memories, it has been 5 years and 5 months since we moved out of the big house and started "life on the road".  


Five years and five months, huh?  Well, give or take a couple days...

Five years ago I wrote this blog post about it having been five months at that point.

And now here we are five years later.



It all feels kind of surreal.  Rather amazing.



So many memories.
So many miles since then.
So much fun to look back on.
So much to look forward to.

I love my life!!!

Amazing Day #15: Rest

Rest

A day of rest

No work

No shoulds

No obligations

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Began this habit during my church days

But back then it was hardly a day of rest.

Usually it was a day of ministry.

Lots of work

Lots of obligation

Lots of shoulds

Lots of stress

Funny how that worked

The idea of Sabbath

A time of rest

But too often it became a time of rules

Things we couldn’t do on Sunday.

Things that we must do on Sunday

…

But now it feels like I’m finally figuring it out.

Hopefully getting it right

A time of rest

Refreshment

Nourishment

Renewal

No work

No shoulds

No rules

No obligations

Sabbath rest

Amazing.

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Read about more amazing days here.

Amazing Day #14: Soup

There's a chill in the air.
Yep.

Hoodies
Warm cozy slippers
Steaming mugs of coffee... or chai... or hot chocolate...
Comfort food
Soup simmering on the back burner.  
Yah, soup.

I do love soup.
Decided to make some potato soup
I remember my mom's version with sliced potatoes, chopped onions and pools of melted butter, but I didn't remember how to make it.

So I looked at several other recipes and gave it a try.  Mostly I used my recipe for white sauce figuring I could thin it down from there.  So I cut up a bunch of potatoes and an onion and got them cooking.  Should have used at least one more onion!

Meanwhile I got started on that white sauce.
Things got a little sticky there for awhile...  and my hands and wrists were aching from painting the porch. But I persevered and eventually got everything smoothed out.  Well, the white sauce anyway.

Sure enough the soup turned out.  It was nice and thick - something the hubby appreciated. Because you see, he tends to think that soup is rather worthless - so runny and all.  But he said he really liked this soup - once he added additional ham!

But was it amazing?
Hmmm...

It was pretty tasty.
It was better than several I've tried in restaurants and maybe even on a par with the best of them - and I have tried a lot of them around the country.

I would however make a few changes - mostly additions.  
I'd use lots more onion.  
And ham.  
And corn.  
And maybe a dash more pepper.

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I do consider it a success.  It has already stood the leftover test - which is a really good thing since I ended up making such a huge pot of it!

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Oh, and the pretty bowls were a gift from an amazing friend!

Amazing Day #13: Kids

I’m tired.

Big day.

Busy day.

Good day.

Today was Grandparents’ Day at the kids’ school.

We went for their program and the kids gave us a tour of their building.

Then we took them out for lunch.

In the evening they came to our house for a couple hours.

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Yep.

Busy day.

Good day.

I’m grateful that we are close enough to get in on things like that.  After being so far away for a couple years, I don’t take that privilege lightly.

I might even call it amazing.