Spring At Home

I am thankful that each season is only three months long. This way we get to appreciate them that much more. I believe that we can become indifferent with too much of one thing. Every season brings forth it's own beauty.

Here we are in Spring 2018. The most exciting thing for me about Spring is that soon nature, plants, trees will be sprouting with new life. Such a tender time that is full of exciting anticipation for the blooming of buds and creatures.
For us, Spring (Fall and sometimes Winter) is the ideal time to spend as much time outdoors as we can without having the sun weighing down on us and making me feel ill.

I got myself a book called Wilder Life which is a Season by Season guide to experiencing the great outdoors. Lovely illustrations and shared several projects for one to do. I would like to try a few projects from the book like weaving and macramé.
Here's a helpful guide for tending to your yard and garden during early Spring. I found this helpful and would have to say that once I began educating myself on basic gardening I have since been able to keep my plants and shrubs alive. That's a big deal for me.

We've been in our house for five years and barely last Spring we finally decided to paint the downstairs spare room. Riley's playroom. I wanted a dark color to make the room feel cozy. I love the color, it's Behr Graphic Charcoal. The one thing I was the most excited about was replacing the light fixture. There was a low chandelier that I grew to dislike very much because we always had to duck in order to not hit our heads. I found a ceiling lamp at Lamps Plus online. We drove to an actual store and to my disappointment they didn't have the nickel only gold so they had to order one for us and had to wait a couple of weeks for it to arrive.
If I remember correctly, this room was intended to be a formal dining room. Our family doesn't see any benefit on having a formal living or dining so we decided to turn that room into Riley's playroom.
Given that Riley had outgrown a lot of his toys we got rid of the kiddie toys and a few totes. We bought a tall bookcase to put all his books and board games on. We also got a console table and a couch that turns into a bed. We wanted this room to accommodate all three kids. If they felt like watching tv laying down on the couch then they can. The last thing we would like to do is to put up crown molding.

As soon as the rains stopped in early Spring I picked up several flowers from the store to decorate the babies resting place and a few for the front porch.
This is what I like about the babies barrel. I planted perennials and left a few spaces where I can also plant annuals. This gives me the freedom to change things up and pick pretty flowers each Spring and Summer.

For my front porch I added ranunculus to accompany the ferns and some other greenery (forgot what it is) I planted about a year ago. I'm into subtle decorating. Not sure why the fern on the left planter is not as abundant as the one on the right. Direct sunlight doesn't hit either one. Hm.

Ranunculus is such a pretty little flower.

Gosh, I don't remember this plant's name either. Our home layout is not the most favorable. We don't get that much direct sunlight. This side narrow kitchen window is the only window in the house that provides the most direct sun. It's my favorite window.
Also last Spring I got myself this pretty floral coffee cup. I love it! Isn't it lovely?!

I am well aware that all that I have is because of God's blessings to us. I could not purchase pretty Spring flowers without knowing that all this is only possible because He blessed Jacob with a wonderful job. To the unbeliever, this may sound silly but to us believers, we KNOW that nothing is possible without God.
God's hand is in EVERY single detail of our lives.

Joy is always available to us, moment by moment

.... if we only have eyes to see.