In chronological order…
- Getting the Bean back to sleep for another hour and a half of sleep after her 4:45am wake-up on Saturday morning
- Giggles and smiles from my Bean
- Having tea with a friend
- Seeing the sun streaming down through the clouds
- Going for a walk with my Sweetie, my Bean, and my Dog and stopping for coffee along the way
- Getting a thank you note in the mail from a close friend
- Having friends over for dinner and making everything from scratch
- Sleeping in until 9:30am on Sunday…sleep, glorious sleep!
- Brunch at our favourite little diner
- Driving along the coast on a sunny day
- Seeing the beautiful fall colours on the trees
- Watching the Bean walk across the house with her walker all by herself! (I just helped with steering)
- Meeting friendly neighbours as I walked the Dog
- Quality time with my Sweetie with the TV off
- Finally getting back onto my Blog
Hope you had as great a weekend as I did.
I’d love to hear what made YOU smile this weekend.
On the Kindle: The Tavernier Stones by Stephen Parrish
This modern-day treasure hunt features an Amish (turned modern but still conservative) cartographer, John Graf, whose hero, 17th century mapmaker Johannes Cellarius is discovered in a bog after floating to the surface. Cellarius is clutching a huge ruby in his dead fist, sparking a race to find the rest of a treasure thought to be the lost Tavernier stones. One reviewer likens it to Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol, which I LOVED.
I’m not very far into it, but so far, it looks interesting. I’ll give my opinion when I’m done. But if you’ve got a Kindle and you like stories involving puzzles and mysteries, you might as well pick it up – it’s only $2.99. 🙂
Julia
Nov 14, 2011 @ 04:54:13
You’re back!!!
making soup from scratch, then having friends over to eat it, made me smile this weekend. And swimming with Ben and Silas. So glad the Bean is walking with her walker! What a big step (ha ha.. step).
Paul D. Dail
Nov 14, 2011 @ 06:01:49
What a great list. And it sounds like a great weekend. With a toddler myself, I can definitely appreciate the extra sleep in the mornings 🙂 My smiling moments? I would say one was definitely discovering Flash Gordon on Netflix Instant… and then watching it with my wife while my daughter took her nap on Saturday. Actually we got in two movies together that day.
Hope your week treats you as well as your weekend.
Paul D. Dail
http://www.pauldail.com- A horror writer’s not necessarily horrific blog
Devin Seto
Nov 14, 2011 @ 22:02:29
It’s the little things that count the most.
Patti
Nov 14, 2011 @ 23:03:58
Fun weekend! It makes me smile to see you blogging 🙂