winter light

the winter brings such a lovely clear light.

Happy Monday! 

The end of fall beginning of winter is in full swing around here

& you can see the signs of it everywhere.

From the coat rack that was full of summer flowers & straw hats

only a few weeks ago that is now full of winter coats & scarves,

to holey socks being mended or replaced,

(we go through A LOT of socks around here :))
to light blazers that are now under our heavy wool coats
& how the home smells of cinnamon & vanilla.
I didn't get any pictures of it, because the sun set before I got home,
but we did get our first snow on Monday & it was just beautiful
& a bit frightening.
It didn't snow much but it surprised us with its frigid force
& it was a bit a startling reminder of where we live & what that entails.
We've so enjoyed preparing for this season
 & the joys it will bring as the cold blows in.
Holidays are just around the corner
& I'm getting so excited planning and preparing for them.
I've already made lists & lists of things to do & make & enjoy,
eeek! I so enjoy this season!

xoxo,
lyss

A Farewell To Fall

for the first snow came today and heralded in winter.

xoxo,
lyss

happy list

computer working 

(yay!!)

sunny fall days

mornings off

homemade chicken pot pie

cinnamon sticks in morning coffee

sweaters and blazers

clean windows

marigold leaves everywhere

planning for the holidays

biscuits with molasses

sleepy chilly mornings

Technical Difficulties

The computer charger died.

Bought new charger.

Computer battery almost dead.

Decision on whether to buy new battery pending.

Iphoto on the fritz.

Solution to iphoto problem pending.

We will resume posting shortly,

we hope.

Hello Monday

 Hi! Hi! 

If I were to call you right now I would apologize

that its been so long since we've caught up,

because I'm just terrible at regularly keeping up with people....

and I would ask how you're doing.

Then when you asked how I'm doing I would tell you I'm well.

That Josh is doing well in school and I'm loving my job

and we are thoroughly enjoying the city and fall weather.

Then I would probably giggle and ask if I had told you about kickboxing?

No? Oh girl you're going to get a kick out of this!

(no pun intended)

So Josh is perusing sale sites a few weeks ago and found a deal on kickboxing

and mentioned that he'd like to do it, so I pipe up 

"oh I think that would be fun! Can I do it too?".

Too which Husband is shocked and asks me several times if I'm sure 

and then expresses how he would be super impressed and thinks it 

would be pretty sexy if I really did want to do it.

"Then of course!" I respond quite pleased with myself for impressing Husband.

I should have known.

Fast forward to last Monday when we show up to class

and as Josh is paying for parking I peek inside and see people 

wrestling and punching each other.

PUNCHING each other.

"Whoa! This is not kickboxing!"

I exclaim in freaking out mode

"We're supposed to stand in line and punch the AIR! What is this?!"

And it only got more intimidating and scary as we got inside....

girl I could not believe what I had gotten myself into!

But we did it.

Josh was in his element.

It was so fun to see him pick it up really fast and excel.

He was quick and agile and ninja like.

It was really cool to see.

I on the other hand kept getting reprimanded for bouncing.

I made it over halfway through and only stopped then because I was

wearing glasses and after getting hit a couple times

in the face the danger of my glasses getting broken became

a very real danger.

It was INTENSE.

And I'm totally doing it again.

If only for Husbands face after class (:

So yeah, that's my kickboxing story.

He wants to do a tough mudder next.

I guess I should start training like last month huh?

And after you got done laughing at me

(because seriously how ridiculous is that?)

I would ask what you've been up to,

are you well?

I would listen and laugh with you over this and that.

Then I would tell you I miss you and again I'm really sorry

for being so bad about calling regularly.

Can I call you again tomorrow?

Because I just realized husband is still asleep and

 we have a chiro appt in 30 min.

Ok, great!

Have a wonderful day my friend!

and thank you so much for the sweet conversation,

I'm so blessed to have you in my life.

Happy Monday (:

xoxo,

lyss

Apple Picking

I am really sick with the stomach flu right now,

but I really want to get these down and out

for memories sake.

I love apple picking.

I love wandering through the orchards and fields.

I particularly love wandering through 

with Josh and taking ridiculous pictures (;

This year was one of my favorite yet I think.

The weather forecast called for rain and lots of it 

(oh the irony :P)

but this was the only weekend that was going to work.

So we packed our umbrellas and off we went.

And as you can see the weather forecast was totally wrong!

It was beautiful!

Just perfect really.

We spent a couple hours wandering,

ate some sweet potato fries,

(I ate most of them :P)

and went to a friends house for lunch

before heading home.

On our way home we took the Chicago Skyway

which is what we came through when we first moved here

almost 3 years ago.

They charged us an arm and a leg back then too,

but oh what memories (:

xoxo,

lyss