Sunday funday

Today I went over to my parents house to help my mom go through some of the things she’s been holding onto for us over the years. They are cleaning out the spare bedrooms (I think for the first time since we’ve all moved out), and getting ready to paint and replace the carpet. I found so many sweet things that brought back such good memories. My mom has kept around a couple of baby dolls that I loved “just in case” I have a daughter of my own. They have seen better days, and I’m sure they should be thrown out. . . but there’s something about those dolls that I want to hang onto. Such sweet and innocent times. I also came across a journal that I kept when I was 8 years old. One of the entries read, “I love babies. I have a friend who has a baby. She loves her baby. My aunt has a baby named Jessica. I hope I have a real baby some time if it doesn’t cry.” Ha!  From the sound of it, I think I made stuff up. I have no cousins named Jessica. . . and I’m pretty sure at the age of 8, I didn’t have any “friends” that had babies. I don’t know what I’m going to do with all these journal entries, but there’s no way I can toss them out. There were a lot of other things I wanted to keep as well, but decided it’s better for me to live in a clutter free home then to hang on to everything from my past.

Well, here it is. Sunday again. The weekend went by too fast, again. Lucky for me, I was able to get everything done I had planned out. I finally got around to getting rid of the nasty brass gold color that surrounded our fireplace. Originally I wanted to paint it silver, but finding a high heat silver spray paint is harder than it sounds. So I went with a flat black color. It’s outside drying as I type this so as soon as it’s put back together I will post pictures. Friday night after work, we went to Grass Root for dinner. It’s the first organic restaurant in Lakeland and I’ve been anxiously awaiting it’s opening for a while. It was awesome! I’m so excited it’s just a couple minutes from my work and home.

Tonight I decided to try a new recipe I found for chocolate chip pumpkin bread. It was so easy to make and absolutely delicious! I have recently discovered that baking has become my new hobby. Specifically baking certain things related to whatever season it might be. I need to learn how to just bake though and not eat the whole product of my labor. I’m thinking that’s not really possible, and even if it is. . .  I don’t think it sounds as fun. I know if I don’t learn that though, it will soon become a hobby that makes me large as ever! Either way it’s fun and everything I’ve been making has turned out amazing.