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Fall is Fallabulous

I love fall.  I love the weather, the colors, the smells, the introduction of foods that were lost throughout the summer, the activities and the excitement that the Christmas season is just around the corner.  One of my favorite things to do lately is to pull the blinds in our bedroom and lay on our bed with Gabby as we watch the colorful leafs swirl around and colors come to life as the morning light progresses. The yellows, the grays, the reds, and the greens all forming a beautifully happy morning wake up.  Gabby is enjoying it as much as I am because she just lays there talking and smiling which is a sure sign of how much she is loving the morning crispness, sights, and sounds.  And so to you who might be interested, here is a picture of what I am talking about.  I can't add the sounds and smells, but I am confident that you will be able to imagine them yourself. 

Audrey Hepburn

In hopes of being better, I found this quote and loved it.  I just adore Audrey and so it made the quote mean more.

"For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his/her fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands; one for helping yourself, and the other for helping others."

Book of Mormon

Wasting Life Dreaming into the Sunset

Why is it that I can spend hours doing brainless and useless activities when I can't seem to sit down for 5 minutes to read a good quality book? I don't get it. I have looked at facebook for hours on end, the checked my email, watched the Office a zillion times, and the list goes on. But when I sit down to read a book, I fall asleep, or well, it just doesn't happen. I haven't always been like this, just lately. I would like to blame the fact that I just had a baby, but I know that that isn't the case. I am just lazy. Lazy is the solution for my madness of wasting life.

So, the solve all for overcoming this madness is one step at a time. It is waking up tomorrow morning, happy and excited to see my little girl smile at me and Adam giving me a fresh morning kiss. It is then saying no to turning on the computer until after all is said and done then allowing myself an hour of computer fun. It is then going through my day, seeing what exactly I need to get done and then doing it... loving it... and finding some sort of joy in it.

If this works, I'm sure to be rid of the madness of laziness. If it doesn't, well, I'll then pick up ice cream- wait I don't like ice cream, so I'll pick up Sour Patch Kids and start a fresh with a new idea the next day... genius-really.

So, until tomorrow, I'll waste more of my life as I wait for Gabby to fall asleep. I don't like to go to bed unless I know that she is fast asleep because I am too lazy to want to get out of a warm, comfortable bed to calm her down. Again- lazy. Ha.