Simple Pleasures: Bacon in the Morning

It's rare around here when we can say on Friday night :  "There's nothing to get up for, we can SLEEP IN!"  My husband works every other Saturday, and lately, he's been working six days a week.  It's was a long January.


But how I love that feeling!  Tucked in after the basketball game on Friday night, with nothing to awaken for (unless it's that pesky telemarketer that calls at NINE A.M.  Ugh!).

So, am I the only mama who gets giddy when she knows that her family is going to awaken to the smell of bacon on the morning?


Why does that make me so happy?


(Have you ever, ever, ever met a boy or a man that doesn't like bacon?  I never have.  There's a Facebook page called "BACON".  It has almost two million "Likes", and I'd bet most of them are men.)

Yes, eating a gigantic bacon, egg and pancake breakfast at noon with your family is one of life's precious little treasures.  

There is magic in the ordinary.

Laughing and talking with all those feet together under the old oak kitchen table is priceless.

And for me, imagining their memories later in life when they remember sunny Saturday mornings, waking to the smell of bacon and pancakes, well, that's just a little gift I can give them.  

And I gladly do.

Walking Through the Year

I've been a walker for years now.

And I've been adjusting where, and when I walk to make the most of the time I am out. 

I've finally found the routine that will work for me.  It took me several years.  

I have found that first thing in the morning is the only time that makes sense for me because if I get started working around the house, then I never do get my walk done.

I love walking outside, but the weather is too much of an issue to keep a regular schedule, so now I walk indoors.  It works in any kind of weather.  My favorite walking shoe is the Puma.  It took me time to find that out, too.  It's all a process.

Puma, well, all I can say is it's like walking on AIR.  

Once I got them broken in, that is.  I found mine for an excellent price at TJ MAXX.  I should have bought two pair, and next time I will.  Because I never want to be without a pair.

My favorite schedule is three days, walking 4-6 miles every other day with weekends off.  Some weeks, I may only get to walk Tuesday and Thursday.  That's fine, too.  


Next week, I start Jury Duty, so I'll have to adjust again.  

This year, I began the year by taking time to log the miles and in January, to my surprise, I logged ...

58 miles!

I was shocked!

Now I will be looking forward to the last day of each month so I can total my numbers.

I finally kicked my one-can-a-day,  Coca-Cola-on-ice-at-noon habit, too!  

I still have a pop every week or two...but not every day.

So far, so good!

So, do you walk, too?

Daring to be Different

An old farmhouse and barn nearby that dare to go against the tide, and be different...pink house, yellow milk house!  

And the leaning trees just left as they are!