Yes, that's me....always has been...but I have spent way too much of my life trying to color inside the lines just so I would be liked...Seems like that is just not the way to go about that! I focus a lot as I get older on being the real me...the unadulterated woman I am underneath all of the woulda, shoulda, coulda that this life has so unmercifully placed upon me..
I am indeed a work in progress...One of my dear friends, Olive at Olive Out ,used to share her dishes and call them nearly tablescapes..I always loved that and told her so.. At the time, I was doing full blown tablescapes once a week..HOW did I ever do that for any length of time??. :-) Anyway, I realize it has been a while since I put one together..Before Christmas to be exact..Oh, MY!
So, in honor of Olive....here is my nearly tablescape for today..
I will eventually get them on a table with all the fixings but right now I am doing a bit of gardening and as much grandbabying as I can get in....Jonathan is a little over 3 weeks old..they don't stay newborn very long at all.... As you can see, I don't have enough time to do all of the playing house that I like to do....
Maybe I am just becoming grandmother most of all..next to being a wife....I am trying to just surrender to that part of life and go with it.. I have always wanted to be able to spend a lot of time with my grandchildren so I am learning to actually do it...
I got out this quilt that I had made for my son in 1976..hence the bicentennial fabric squares... It has now been passed down to his son..
If I can just get all the pieces of my life together like this quilt..LOL Maybe there will be something beautiful and whole in about 37 years...
Just because.......bought for MaryElla.... I'm telling you...everything around here is like that almost tablescape...
One more almost...... a new to me dining room rug....
(Bonnie would NOT get out of the way...she photo bombed every picture..).
AND......
It matches the china I have had since 1973..and still love. and I have a partial tablescape in the works...
So......this is a partial post...an almost one...cause that is how I am feeling lately..almost, but not quite....
Do you have seasons like this in your life? where it seems like it will never end???
kinda like this winter...on and on and on..
Seriously, maybe I have that thing where I am sensitive to dark and dreary weather and no sunlight..LOL
Well, I am glad you stuck it out to the end of this rambling, almost writing of mine....
Oh, and one more thing.....
I had to dig out a huge planting of rosemary that had been growing here for a decade. the single digit weather killed it...Guess what I did!! Just added flowers..yep! went and found several clumps of daffodils that had buds and dug them up and replanted them right here so I can see them from my kitchen window......still needs a lot of work..but, hey..a work in progress..
My supervisors.......
Under a gray Georgia sky...
Will these winter days ever give way to spring??? I know the answer..YES!
Thank you for stopping by..
Love,
Mona
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