Life as a Homemaker.
Part 1
Pancakes or burritos? Here I am, sitting on my couch in my
apartment, sipping a cup of hot tea and wondering what to make for dinner. Yes,
pancakes is a dinner option. Breakfast is pretty much the best meal of the day…
why not have it twice? Actually, the only reason I’m even considering burritos
is because I make breakfast for dinner quite often… and I’m worried Jordan might
get tired of it. Oh well… I tried to convince myself but it did no good. I
think pancakes will win out in the end.
I digress.
My house is decorated with cheery colors, pumpkins and
autumn leaves. The potpourri next to me is fragrant like cranberries and
cinnamon. It’s the holidays. I’ve been away from home for the holidays before,
but this is my first time in my own home.
Jordan
works on Thanksgiving day (tomorrow, as I’m writing this), so I decided to make
a miniature thanksgiving dinner for us. He gets to come home from work to have
dinner, so I’m looking forward to it.
I took pictures of my autumn decorations so you can all see
what I’ve been filling my busy days with. Believe it or not, I have been staying fairly busy. Doing
what, I’m not sure, but I think I’ve been productive with my time. The house is
coming together and looking like a home now, so that’s something to show for my
work. However, the mere fact that I’m taking time to write a blog just proves
that I’m not a good newly wed after all, because I still have a huge pile of
unwritten thank you notes on my table. How ungrateful of me!
Well, it’s 5:30… Jordan will need me to come pick
him up soon, so I better get dinner started. More to come later about life as a
homemaker. Enjoy the pictures for now. :)
This is my table.
It’s very festive. I may have gone a little overboard with all the
leaves, but it was fun. I went outside and collected the beautiful leaves off
the ground while some ladies looked at me like I was crazy. I am a little
crazy, but it keeps things interesting. :)
And yes… my dinnerware has calla lilies on it… gorgeous,
huh?
I was trying to be creative with all those leaves I’d
collected, so I put them in a pitcher… something else that I have and still
haven’t had the chance to use.
This is the view out my back window/door! Isn’t that lovely?
The fall colors are so warm and vibrant that you’d never know how cold it is
outside! By the way, they call the fountains here lakes for some reason, so
since we are surrounded by them everywhere, we officially live in the lake
country! Also, I haven’t completely explored all around the buildings in our
apartment complex (there is probably a population as high in our apartments as
there was in the town I came from!), so today I took a new route to the lobby
in the leasing office where I have to go for internet. On my way, I discovered
a stairway, quite long, which is a stairway on one side, and a fountain on the
other. I’ll try to remember to take a picture and post it… I’m easily
fascinated, I know, but I don’t think I’ve seen that before. I guess we have
lakes AND waterfalls here… gosh it’s practically Yosemite!
;)
Back inside where it’s warm… Here is my harvest basket and
pumpkins, which was given me to brighten up my home for the holidays from my
dear friend Rachel. It is very festive, and some other fake fruit made its way
into the scene too, you might notice. (My acorn squash, which I made in ceramics
last year. Mom’s banana is hiding behind it.) Oh and real fruit… yum!
More lovely pumpkins!
And I believe it’s complete with a jar of leaves in my
kitchen window… if it had curtains they might even label me a true home maker.
Someday, perhaps… ;) (P.S. my window is
not boarded up as it might appear, those are trees out front…)
THE END of tour #1. Come and visit and maybe I’ll show you
the rest. ;)
