Welcome to this week's edition of The Wednesday Hodgepodge. If you've answered today's questions add your link at the end of my post, then hop over and leave a comment for your neighbor there. That's how the blog world rolls. Here we go-
2. How often do you shop for clothes? What accessory do you always wear?
We live in a small town, so I mainly shop online these days. It can be done at my leisure, and most places have made returns easy. I will shop for specific events I know are on the calendar, and I generally add a few things each season as needed too. I just did a pass through my closet last week and have three bags to donate. I didn't get to the drawers but that's coming.
Accessories I always wear? My wedding and engagement rings on my left hand and a ring hubs gave me for our 15th anniversary on my right. I wear earrings every day, and my iWatch too. And glasses. Are glasses an accessory?
3. What's something free that you feel grateful for?
God's grace if we're going deep. Something less deep? the sunrise, music, a starry night sky, and library books.
4. Breakfast, lunch, dinner...which meal of the day do you enjoy most? What's your go-to comfort food?
Breakfast is my favorite meal of the day. I mean a real breakfast, not a grab and go meal. I love to have breakfast out, love brunch which is always breakfast for me, love sharing it with someone, love lingering over coffee, love the beginning of a new day and the meal that marks it.
My go-to comfort food? Homemade chicken soup... it's good for what ails you, mind and body both.
5. This week the world remembers the tragic events of 9/11. Do you mark the day in any way? How do historical events shape your perspective on your personal challenges?
It seems like it shouldn't still feel fresh, yet somehow it does. I don't know if it's because we lived outside D.C. on the day and knew people whose lives were directly impacted, or because we've lived outside NYC a couple of times and the city is a part of the landscape of our lives.
Sometimes I think it's just that bright blue September sky, so achingly beautiful, that gives me pause. We will remember the day. We'll listen to the names read and will say a prayer for the families who lost so much, for the bravery of so many on that awful day, and for our nation which has been in turmoil of one kind or another ever since.
I think if you're of a certain age you remember where you were on the day, and you can't help but think about it when the date comes around each year.
As far as how historical events shape my perspective when I face personal challenges? Well I suppose they make so many of my own problems feel small in comparison.
6. Insert your own random thought here.
Happy birthday today to this little sweetheart...
This picture y'all!
She was a baby and so was I. She's a momma now, but still and always my baby girl.
Time is a thief but also a gift.
I wrote a post yesterday in honor of her special day because that's what I do every year on her birthday. (you can read it here if you're so inclined-The Carousel of Time)
Happy birthday Daughter2...what an absolute joy and privilege it is to be your momma xo
Awww, happy birthday to your girl- what a great picture! With regard to the second part of question 5, your answer was something that also came to my mind (but I didn't write it down). I didn't know anybody personally impacted by the events of 9/11 or really of any large disaster/act of terror/war. Regarding shopping, I live fairly close to shopping destinations but shopping does not hold the appeal that it did when I was younger. I, too, prefer online shopping. Thanks for the questions and link up and have a great day!
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday to your sweet girl. I feel as though time has sped up so much since my kiddos left the nest. It’s crazy that our littles now have littles of their own. I’m not quite sure how that happened!
ReplyDeleteHappy bday! Love that photo! That must be around 1992? I feel like I remember that style you are sporting! I answered my questions much the same way as you did.
ReplyDeleteGod's grace/love was also my answer for the free gift that I'm grateful for. I never want to get over this! I enjoyed the prompts this week, as always, my friend. Happy Birthday to your daughter number two! I love that picture of the two of you. Thanks for hosting us each week!
ReplyDeleteI loved your answers! And that first one was so similar to mine - I kinda knew it would be though. Your 9/11 recollections and thoughts - I hadn't thought of that, how our nation HAS been in some sort of turmoil of one type or another since then. Wow. I love your thoughts on your picture - time is a thief but also a luxury so many don't have, right? I'm grateful for photos to help us remember who we were and where we've been :)
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday to your girl! I like that statement that time is a thief but also a gift - it's important to remember that it is indeed both. :-) We lived about an hour from DC at the time of 9/11 and I remember standing outside that day and marveling that the sky could be such a beautiful bright clear blue on a day of such tragedy, and also realizing how very quiet it was. I always thought our rural area was very quiet but it wasn't until all air traffic (except AF1 and accompanying military craft going to and from Camp David, because we lived very close to that area and directly in the DC-CD flight path) was stopped that I realized just how many planes did go over. Thanks for the link-up - and I'll do my best to visit everyone over the next 24ish hours!
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