Living Large In Our Little House

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Now, back to reg­u­larly sched­uled programming…

Holidays wouldn’t be hol­i­days with­out the food that goes along with them, and at our house, Halloween isn’t left out.

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Me and my mom could turn a small out­ing into a mem­o­rable time together

I have sev­eral books of quotes, a must have for any writer’s office, and sev­eral morn­ings a week, I open it just to see if I can find a new and inspi­ra­tional one.

I think the one I found yes­ter­day is appro­pri­ate for the Living Large Blog.

“Enjoy the lit­tle things, for one day you may look back and real­ize they were the big things.” –Robert Brault

Isn’t that so true? How many times do we dis­miss the lit­tle things in our life, not think­ing they will mat­ter much in the end, when in real­ity, it may be some­thing that will stick with us for the rest of our lives?

I’m reminded of one of the many times my mother and I were dri­ving home from an ordi­nary trip to the gro­cery store. It was a beau­ti­ful spring day and the car in front of us had a mes­sage waxed onto its’ back win­dow: “Seniors, we’re outta here!” Continue Reading »

Sunset behind The Little House yesterday

There’s a feel­ing I get on Sunday evenings. It’s a sort of lonely feel­ing that occurs after I real­ize that we’re just hours away from a set rou­tine again.

When the alarm goes off on Monday morn­ing, my hus­band will be gone for most of the wak­ing hours of the week and I’ll be here work­ing and keep­ing the home fires burn­ing (lit­er­ally, if it is cold out­side) with just the dogs for company.

Yesterday evening felt par­tic­u­larly lonely as we also had to say good­bye to our good friends and neigh­bors down the road. They’ve become our sec­ond fam­ily down here.

They still live in Kansas City full time and usu­ally com­mute down here every other week. However, they have a full fam­ily social cal­en­dar this fall and will not be back until some­time in December.

We had a really good time meet­ing their son and daughter-in-law this past week­end and shar­ing a meal with them on Saturday night. Their home over­looks the lake and pro­vides spec­tac­u­lar views at sunset.

Late yes­ter­day after­noon, Dale and I took the dogs for an off leash romp toward their end of the road, where vacant vaca­tion homes stand over­look­ing the vast blue waters of Bull Shoals Lake, and met our friends as they were pulling out of their drive. Theirs is the last occu­pied house at that end and once we pass their dri­ve­way, it is very secluded.

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