another week of insta

happy february all!

i have to apologize that my blogging consistency has been a bit hit and miss lately... okay, who am i kidding, it's been mostly miss.  thankfully insta-friday is easy-peasy, requiring little thought and energy {does it take anyone else a few hours to complete one blog post!?}

with pix from the jan & feb's photoaday challenge
(see side bar for details)

lunch

tomato, basil, jack cheese panini with hot tea.
mmm mm good. 

{first time i had this was with kristen in portland, oregon. 

NEED another blog-friend get away}

light

light coming through my kids refrigerator-box-made submarine
*love*

inside your fridge
we grocery shop bi-monthly.

financially we have known both enough and want.

i'm learning to praise God in both.
every time we bag our groceries i say aloud,  "thank you God for giving us food."

   my family often echos me.

nature
my backyard
 

you again
tuesday- before dinner, and youth group, and life group.

your view

recess

words

{favorite from blog sidebar}

"only a good story has a character different at the end than it was at the beginning."

hands
taxiing all day long
{3 rings on my finger, each one engraved with one of my children's names.
you could say i have them "wrapped around my finger"}

 IN OTHER NEWS.

i had a hair appointment yesterday.

i planned on going in for the usual-

5 foils and a trim.
BUT

somewhere between the 5 foils and the trim i began feeling  a bit

IMPULSIVE

i had it CHOPPED!!!
i loved it yesterday. 

today i'm in shock and experiencing the 5 stages of hair-loss grief: 

denial {when i crawled into bed last night i convinced myself, 'i didn't really chop it,

it's a dream, it'll be there when i wake in the morning'.... it wasn't.}
anger  {'what was i thinking!?!' how could i do this. it was easier long}

bargaining {'it'll grow back. it'll be fine. it'll grow.'}

depression {'i hate it! must. eat. chocolate. i can hide out at home for 6 months. where's my hat?'}. 

acceptance 

{'the new hair is kinda sassy.  you only have so many good neck years left- 

show it off while you can'}

have you done anything IMPULSIVE recently?