Life lately, early summer 2018

My last several blog posts have been about our recent trip, so it has been about a month since I've written about our day-to-day life. I want to write about trips and big heart lessons, anniversaries and birthdays and life changes, but I also I want to record and remember these days of little things.  They are worthy, too.

Here are some things, in the format of a little list-type post, about small things I love, that reflect my life, right now, on June 3, 2018. The things I've been up to since we've been home from our trip:

• noticing the corn is already so! big!
• sewing buttons on a knit baby sweater
• preparing the exact same breakfast we (happily) eat at least three hundred days a year (baked PB oatmeal, of course)
• eating homemade challah bread with butter that a friend brought over for us
• playing in the grass, getting sweet baby kisses
• drinking smoothies
• slowly reading Chasing Slow. The perfect read for me right now.
• making trips to the post office
• wearing new scrubs to work
• watching knitting podcasts
• vacuuming our Subaru, vacuuming our home
• hand-winding new (sweater!) yarn slowly
• loving my lighter hair
• noticing morning light patterning above a messy bed
• meal-planning for the first time in months
• baking post-dinner gluten-free Texas Sheet cake (I love that this make a much smaller cake, because it is indulgent. I just subbed in all-purpose gluten-free flour and added a 1/2 tsp cinnamon, just like my mom's recipe)
• celebrating two girlfriends' birthdays with dinner downtown
• ordering a bowl meal (my fave) at a new-to-me restaurant
• walking in 98 ("feels like 110") degree heat
• drinking grape juice in stemmed glasses with ice, after said walk
• photographing sunsets after hard days (my hypothesis stands true so far)
• folding omelettes, for lunch or supper, and filling them with mozz or tomatoes (mine) or sausage or gruyere or ham
• brewing decaf coffee in the afternoons and evenings
• knitting a rather meditative shawl pattern, a Milena shawl
• making these chicken fajitas with this cilantro lime rice, served with sauteed onions and avocado on warm corn tortillas
• not taking my usual number of pictures
• brainstorming which three knitting/sewing patterns I want to choose for the 2018 Summer of Basics challenge
• listening to Emily Freeman's podcast, The Next Right Thing
• savoring this quote by Brennan Manning:

“In the act of silence you’re not waiting for God to make a move. You’re becoming aware of the moves He is making.