Life in Focus

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood

It is a glorious day today with beautiful blue skies, big puffy white clouds, a nice breeze, and a summery temperature of 85 degrees!  I just want to bottle it up for those long and frigidly cold February days here in Michigan when it seems like summer will never arrive!

With only 17 days until school starts again (yes, I'm counting), I feel like I need to soak up every bit of warm summer freedom that's left.  So, that's just what we've been doing around here!

These days are filled with...

• Cheering for our Olympic athletes and being totally inspired by their motivation, determination, strength, and will.  Seriously amazing! 

• Helping my daughter train for the middle school cross country team.  Um, maybe I should say that she's actually helping me.  She has wings on her shoes and I can't keep up...but I do try.

• Filling up and cleaning up water balloons...lots and lots of them!

• Hiking,geocaching, and finding all kinds of treasure!

• Playing board games ( i love all the Cranium games, Monopoly National Park Edition, and I'm working on getting better at Scrabble!)

• Going through the 500+ photos that I took at our family reunion (which was an absolute blast, by the way!)

• Scrapbooking,reading, and relaxing.

Right now I'm sipping on an iced cafe mocha from Target and enjoying the smell of my roast with veggies dinner cooking in the crock pot.

 it's a beautiful day.

Life in Focus Friday

What is Life In Focus all about?  In a nutshell, it's a way of life. 

It's about concentrating on what really matters to me...the stuff I want to focus on, the things I don't want to forget, and the everyday moments that I want to take time to enjoy.

It's about living life with awareness, being present, slowing down, and seeing what is right in front of me. 

In a visual form, it's a photographic list of those everyday moments that I bring into focus during my busy, sometimes "blurry" life.

My life...right now....feeling grateful.

So, since it's been so long since I've updated my blog (really hoping to get better at this), I thought I'd "catch up" with my first "Life In Focus" list. So, here goes....

Right now....

freshly picked flowers complete with paper cup vases from my youngest.  I will forever have the image of him with a huge grin on his face and a fist full of thoughtfulness.  So sweet.

lazy days with time to wait for the damsel flies to land in our hands...or, if we can't wait..time to catch them!

beautiful summer sunsets....paintings in the sky.

a cozy night to stare at the sky and watch as the colorful explosions of light take our breath away!

fresh and sweet fruits in season.  we eat them like candy!

impromptu treasure hunting at the lake.  no bathing suits required!

 

roasting marshmallows over the fire.  the smell, the taste, the sticky fingers...it's all good.

the opportunity to take our family to see and experience our Nation's capital....amazing place, amazing history, amazing time together.

growing my very first tomato..and it was tasty too!

fun times with these two at one of my favorite places on earth..I am so lucky.

We're headed out again to spend some time in the woods.  This time it's with our extended family as we celebrate during our family reunion.  We can't wait!

Happy Summer!