Early Morning Acts of Kindness

You're never really sure how the day will go when it starts off without your morning coffee because there is no creamer for said coffee. You don't? Well I do and did this morning.

To the rescue... my husband who graciously went to the store before heading to work and came back with the liquid gold to add to my much needed morning coffee.
Along with the liquid gold he brought back this surprise for me...

Three golden sunflowers, my favorite! To fill up the vase, he also went out back to clip a few branches from our bushes.

Such simple acts of kindness, yet acts that have put a new and more pleasurable spin to the start of my day for which I am very grateful!

Wind, Soup and a Good Book

With winds at 20-35 mph and gusts reaching 50, needless to say, it is just a might bit windy here today. Ah, spring here in the desert of Las Vegas. At least it is only 80 degrees out. A relief from yesterday's 92!

Taking an easy day today, we headed out to the library after working on some Math. Josh finds it just so amusing that I am always on the lookout for new picture books in the kids section. I love picture books! He had to laugh when I spotted a new one titled, What to Do About Alice? by Barbara Kerly.
Teddy Roosevelt is a hero of Josh's and he often shares his favorite TR quote about Alice, "I can be president of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly DO BOTH." This picture book of TR's daughter is a little gem. I love reading about historical figures in this format. It makes the stories of our nation and its people accessible to those young and old alike! I shared a few things with Josh that were in the book and even he learned a new thing or two.

Lunch was a bowl of leftover 15 bean soup made using the ham bone from the Easter ham which I had frozen ... yummmm....



good food, a good book.... life is good!

A first post... again

A time for new beginnings.

I have been absent from my old blog because of so much of life happening...sometimes good, sometimes not so good.... unfortunately, lately, more of the not so good. I was also having a hard time trying to arrange and rearrange my old blog as I wanted to. The set up was just a bit too complicated for this non-savy computer gal and when the kids, who are the savy ones, aren't around, which hey that happens a lot nowadays .... well, just suffice to say that it is not a pretty sight.... the computer and me that is.

Hence, a new start back here in a new blog. They have added a few new things and have made it easier to have a little fun too since I was last here.

Hopefully I can get on here fairly regularly and share just a bit of the goin' ons of the chaos that is daily life here in our house "on the avenue". When I was setting up the blog, I had a heck of a time coming up with a blog title. I really am not good at the clever and quirky title/username/password thing. I knew that I wanted it to reflect what goes on here in our lives. In every house I have ever lived in, those houses resided on avenues, not streets or boulevards or even roads, just good ole' avenue. The dictionary defines avenue as .... "any roadway of approach, passageway or means of access." Aha! Yes, exactly! That's what I envisioned for this blog. It would be a means of access into our lives for friends, family, and hopefully for an occassional visitor or two. Our lives include homeschooling, public schooling, college, work, and living and loving as a family.

The door is always open....