These Simple Joys...

Hello friends,

Life's been kinda busy and a big mess but I guess that's to be expected when you 

start home projects.  For us; our little remodeling has snowballed from project to project. 

It seems with this old farmhouse once we tear into something the next layer has something

else rotted that needs  to be fixed.  Just how it goes.  

We just keep telling ourselves every day we're one day closer.  

The floor is all fixed under the bath tub now and new drywall up behind it...

Myguy is still muddin though...  Hopefully we can get  the bed and dressers etc moved out and carpet all ripped out in time for the carpet layers.

Meanwhile we've been trying to decide on big mirrors and which medicine cabinet and 

cupboards to go above our washer n dryer ...- all that jazz.  Almost forgot but we tore 

all the shelves out of  the linen closet in our bathroom too when the tub was out.  

Have I said yet that it's a fine mess around here?  ha 

Least there's a garden of flowers and flutterflys to visit 

amid the mess.  

It helps the sanity.

Hopefully it won't take too long coz I'll be having withdrawals not havin 

the babybear out for playdays.  

As it is right now her room is full of junk and it's gonna get worse by this weekend

needing a place to put the rest of our bedroom furniture.  

 A few simple joys this week ...

---fixing tabs in my Gram's bible.  

Holding this tab in my fingers I wondered:  

 Could my Grandmother 

 ever have imagined  .. one day her Leaonie

would feel propelled to hold her Catholic bible and reattach the tabs that were 

yellowed and falling apart. 

I so wonder?

I know she prayed for me alot.  

  (Don't pay no mind to my fingernails... you can probably

guess I'm not the go get a  mani-pedi  kinda gal. --Never had one and 

don't plan to start now. 

I am a tabs gal though.  :) 

And these needed some love.  

I tried different glues... but nothing I tried would stick.

So I ended up cutting small pieces of packing tape.  

Got them all fixed up and have decided to shelve the bible I've been using  awhile and camp out in Gram's here instead.  

And I finally got around to tabbing my she reads truth bible as well.  

I got these tabs off Etsy.  The shop is called farm girl journals in case anyone tries to look them up.  

And this is my August planner.  

See; I wasn't kiddin about the tabs.  

Let's see... other simple joys... 

the song by the Afters : I will fear no more

I've shared here that I've battled with not being 

able to turn my head off at night.  

My sleep gets robbed...and...

I feel like someone wrote that song just for me. 

And here is another simple joy.

A beautiful moth that I'll get to share with Blakelea

because I video'd it for her.  Another thing to add to our 

list of cool things God made.  

And one more... 

a really good movie I saw on the Formed app.. 

St. Ignatius of Loyola.  

Alright that's enough for tonight.  

Sweet dreams yall!

Lea

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