Freshly Painted Walls

New painted walls gives this wonderful sense of a new house and  it's
 a whole lot cheaper.
We are in the process of repainting my kitchen and dinning room and I'm so excited to see the conclusion of our labor!!
The theme is coffee with three different colors;
paper sack, sandy yellow, and autumn stem...
Autumn Stem is a very dark color with Paper Sack being the medium color and Sandy Yellow being the lightest...
Eeeek, I can't wait!!!
Umm... I absolutely love coffee, frappes, and lattes that I decided to fix my kitchen up with vintage coffee signs and pics.
The great thing about this is; it's  my marvelous husband undertaking this adventurous project, just for me. showing great enthusiasm for the task at hand.

Him showing an interest has softened my heart,
loving him all the more.

My family for the last year has been buying pics, signs, place-mats, rugs and so forth with coffee theme that my little hutch was teeming with generously rich coffee articles. I could put stock in the stuff
*SWEEETness*
So my husband and I went to good ole WalMart and picked out the colors. It was so exciting, I was beside myself.
"I know, I'm such a simpleton, but hey it's who I am."
My house has been smelling like paint...not the greatest smell I know but I look at it as just the beginning of wonderful changes in this old neglected (far too long) house.
I'm very happy and have been cherishing this...
*HAPPY MOMENT*

❀Vase full of Flowers...

A dozen roses a vase full of carnations or just a handful of wild flowers...

I have found that I love

having my table grace a beautiful

set of flowers..

real flowers not silk, fake flowers, but real.

That leave a beautiful natural sent and drop leaves when they begin to die...

 I just love the life it brings to my home and the pleasant feeling it gives me on the inside.

 when I come home from a hard days work and see them as a center piece on my Dining Room table or in my living room on the coffee table, it just brings a warm feeling inside. These particular flowers are from

a drive my husband and I were on,

just spending some time alone together.

Enjoying each others company

without the children in the back seat arguing or asking when we'd eat or stop for a potty break; and yes they still do that as teenagers and young adults. We were on our way back towards town when he decided to stop at a local farmers market and we found some wonderful home grown vegetables. As he was filling our basket

 my eyes were drawn

to the counter to the most beautiful

bright sunflowers I have ever seen.

There were many different sizes and bouquets of small wild flowers, but they were all surrounded by these sunflowers that were so beautiful and graceful... Like strong straight soldiers standing at attention protecting the smaller flowers in the center.

I just had to have one of these amazing, God made beauties... My husband came up behind me as I was admiring these beautiful sunflowers... and together we choose the best looking ones for our home. 

Before I was just relaxing enjoying the drive in no hurry to get home, but then with these beautiful arrangement in my hands I just couldn't wait to get home, I couldn't wait to spotlessly clean my kitchen and dinning room just to make these precious flowers a home.

Right then I realized

how much I absolutely loved

a 'vase full of flowers'

... it was a

*HAPPY MOMENT*

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Friday at work, during nap hours... NO not MY nap hours :) but my preschoolers, My husband and son came by with a surprise (something he's done quite often in the last 8 months since he has not been working). They brought me one of these 'StarBucks Coffee Frappaccinos' 

UMMMMMM it was Yummy Sweetness to my taste buds. Delicious appetite to my weakness.
I have not had one of these in such a long time it was a wonderful surprise.... Oh the little things that bring such happiness to my simple life
*UMMMMM*    

They didn't stay long and left it sitting there on the table staring at me with such a character of flair. I didn't want to drink it till all the children were resting still on their mats so I could savor every moment of the drink and that I did. Once the last wiggly lil child was still on their mat, I got up to pop open the lid to smell the wonderful aroma of coffee in the middle of the afternoon. Sometimes I get so sleepy watching the children nap that coffee is something I could use more than not on a daily basis.
I was a happy teacher, a happy wife, a happy mommy...
 Ummm what a nice treat from my husband and my 18yr old son.
The simplicity of life..
It is all I need in life... To love all that comes my way and to love all those that are in my life who care and love me everyday and show me in lil simple ways.
*A Happy Moment* 

❀Being the HIGHEST bidder...

Today at our church was the end of our Sunday School Promotion.
For the last few Sundays the Children have been earning monies every time they came to church (they earned $1.) and every time they brought a visitor (they earned $3.). It was our way to promote our S.S. Program and to bring up our attendance, of course it was fake monies... It has been exciting and lots of fun for the children and very competitive for our youth for they were earning $100. of REAL money.

But what made this a cheerful, blissful moment for me was seeing a child (mine of course) getting something he had his heart set on Sunday after Sunday after Sunday.... These toys, candies, bikes, dolls, etc.... were set out every Sunday for the children see every time they received their monies.... and they knew that the more money they had the better chance they had at getting the thing they wanted because 'being the HIGHEST bidder' was what gave you your hearts desire :D

Isn't it exciting to get something you've always wanted or something you've had your heart set on for such a long time... hoping that someone else doesn't get it before you or that it's still there the next time you come by... It was so neat today to see all these children beside themselves with reckless abandon screaming out their bids to win their prize...
there was such a buzz in the air, so much commotion it was hard to hear the children's bids!! There was such a wild frenzy the thrill was almost a feeling of hysteria!! Oh but it was such a great show of passion it was almost intoxicating!!!

"And JULIAN gets the bike for $10.00 (fake) loot dollars!!!!"
The church whoops it up with screams and roars!!!
He was the HIGHEST bidder and it was...
*A HAPPY MOMENT*

❀Simplicity...

A simple moment:
Is sitting with your friends on a warm afternoon with not a care in the world waiting for something great to happen.

I work with little children and I think the one reason I love this job is the fact that it always brings me back to the RIGHT perspective in life...
SIMPLICITY: simpleness, simple mindedness, ease, easiness, chasteness; freedom from complexity, deceit or guile;the state, quality, or an instance of being simple. 
As I look into the Word of God it brings us to the scriptures that remind us to not forbid the little children because of their innocence of youth.
Those simple times in our lives, when there are no struggles in life, no pains, no hurts, no failures, no mistrust... just waiting for promise.... something great to happen, cause you know it will (at this age). Just plain and simple. Happily waiting with your friends enjoying the warmth of the day, not a care in the world...
The innocence of a child....
That is a happy moment and I love that these days pass me by on a daily occasion. I'm thankful to a merciful God who has placed this before me during this season in my life... I want to find every opportunity to find my happy moments, the simplicities of life, the passions of my soul. I love God with all my heart and love life and He is the giver of life. He has placed little children in my path and has shown me simplicity of life and I will embrace it with all my heart♥
*A HAPPY MOMENT*