Tough Week

Ugh. Deep breaths.

Making this painting was sort of my way of trying to deal with everything that is going on right now in our house. It has NOT been an awesome week and trying to find one awesome thing a day has been SUCH a challenge. I am usually REALLY good at it!

On Tuesday I found a nice rivet sticking into the side of one of my back tires. I thought that maybe, just maybe,  I was in the clear and it didn't go all the way through BUT when my wonderful husband and I went to pull it out unfortunately air starting gushing out and we were SUPER disappointed. I did, however, learn how to change a tire so yay for a new life skill obtained!

Then our little (well...big) puppums, Durango, got SUPER sick all week and we had to spend QUITE a bit of money on him at the vet. Despite our best efforts it seems he picked up a nasty parasite and that parasite gave him some ulcers in his sensitive little tummy. He hasn't been himself and we have been trying to spoil him as much as we can to perk him up until the treatment works.

I know that everything happens for a reason and I try my best to live in that moment, find love in that moment, grow from it and hopefully laugh about it later. It just has been SO SUPER hard.

This week is a new week though!

Put a Little Love in a Heart

 

Love is such a simple thing but it can also be one of the hardest things to show. I have been trying to let more love into my life and to give more love to those around me. Showing patience, kindness and helping because I can are all ways that I have tried to show my love lately. Letting that love translate to paint and brush was absolutely amazing.

Sometimes doing something can inspire us. I am glad that I have put the challenge of love in my life. 

I am lucky to have people to love in my life. 

Loving inspires me and being loved fuels that inspiration.

I hope everyone is having as wonderful a week as I am!

Animal Jail...for Now

All of our animals are in quarantined to their dedicated areas right now. Fleas. Ugh.It has been particularly rough in Philadelphia this year.

Look at that face!!! 

It is breaking my heart right now because I want them all to have free reign of the house but I also know how big our house is and the thought of cleaning everything.... no. I also know that we have two cats and our precious puppums that are all sharing fleas with each other. John and I would be on a WAY too long epic battle with our uninvited guests. We are already exhausted.

The first week we found out I didn't sleep. At all.

The second week I cried a lot. 

It is getting better though. The animals have all been treated and we are cleaning non-stop.

I know we will get through this. We just have to have a little faith in ourselves and the patience to persevere!

Finding Fall

Sometimes when life is super stressful taking a new path can be all that you need. I took one that I normally take but this time I tried to see things that I don't normally see. 

 

A mossy tree that sat all alone in the mid-afternoon sun. My eyes were drawn to the fuzzy spring yellow that climbed up and down the rough trunk.  

I followed the leaves looking at all the colors that they had to bring. Fall means yellows, reds, oranges, and browns splattered with hints of green as they fall to the ground to sleep.

I stepped in a puddle along the way and found some more hints that cooler weather is slowly approaching!

I needed to forget where I was for a while. 

I needed to breathe in the cool air.

I needed to feel the sun warm on my skin and look up at the blue sky.

It is days like these that I appreciate the little things when the bigger things get to be too much. Fall is my favorite time of year. I love sweaters, scarves, and leaves blowing all around me. I love the smells and comforting tastes of pumpkin, apple and cinnamon. I love the crispness in the air.

I should go off the beaten path more often.