well…. how awesome are you?
i was not sure i could meet my goal of 50 stoves…$1000.
and as of NOW we have raised $4230 and sponsored 211 stoves.
THAT IS SO AWESOME!!!
let's keep this momentum going!
🙂
we have five more days…. let's hit $5000!!!!! i bet we can!!
thank you to everyone who gave so far!
the adventure project thinks you are so cool.
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this fake commercial was on Saturday Night Live last week.
i thought it was very funny….
also The Lumineers were on!!!!
they were so so SO goooooooood!
did you see it?
you should go over here and watch and then watch this one too!
they are pretty dreamy to listen to.
i meant to have my craft weekend post up and ready today.
but it's not gonna happen.
i have been so busy….very happily busy… all good stuff.
how about some instagrams from the past week-ish?
annie loves to go to the thrift store with me.
i told her she could pick one thing only….. i wish she would have chosen that couch!
instead we came home with that valentines bear from 2006.
i know it's 2006 because that is what is on the bear's foot.
my favorite mug.
kimberlee's coffee cake….it was totally delicious.
many monrings look like this over here.
i went back to the mall last week and the gold shoes
that were completely covered in gold glitter were 70% off!
score.
annie shouted "MOM pleeeeeease can i get one of these?! They are only $39.99!!"
only???
ran five miles by myself…. well, me and the avett brothers and mumford & sons.
tulips.
they are so nice on the eyes.
talby found these in the bathroom and wanted to know WHY?
Why do we have them? Whose are they? What are they for? Where did they come from?
(they are a mold of craig's teeth…fascinating right?)
a vase of dr.seussy flowers were sunny and nice during this FREEZING week we have had.
so cold.
going running in this cold weather is quite something.
frozen thighs no matter how far we go.
but the reward will be endurance when the weather improves…. right?
i hope so.
i love this breakfast.
cutie…greek yogurt… granola… coffee with LOTS of half & half.
cleaning at the craft house is always pretty decent because it's all so pretty to see.
i steal my husband's socks for cold running…. they are just better.
on friday we did our run and then gathered at my friend's house and helped her prepare 25 meals for her freezer as a birthday gift to her. :)
the gift was helping it get accomplished.
she is super organized so we did what we were told and it all worked out great!
that is my favorite way to cook… "just tell me what to do"
i chopped and chopped and chopped.
then i put together calzones.
it was a lot of work but so worth it! it's a GENIUS way to cook meals.
saturday morning i snuck in some time under a blanket with coffee and my book.
the sun came up and became too much for me sit there anymore.
but i will take that sunshine anytime!
i took sean to his basketball tournament for the day… just the two of us.
he had three games and i really enjoyed it all.
it has been SO MUCH fun to watch my kids improve in their sports this year.
after sean's three games we went to scott's game at our old high school gym!
it was very surreal to be there as a grown up… as a parent… of a HIGH SCHOOLER?!
so weird.
and lots of the same people sitting or standing in the same place they did when i was in high school?!!
i am reading The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out![]()
.
it's wordy but so far it's reeeeeally good.
"for grace proclaims the awesome truth that all is gift"
sunday night swimming…. yes please.
craig and sean spent almost the whole time wrestling.
why do boys do that so much?
talby organized all annie's babies for her so annie had to feed them all before going to bed herself.
and this morning…. we ran 6.17 miles in 17 degrees.
it was HARD.
but it's done. THANK GOODNESS!
then we met AGAIN but this time at the craft house and we made freezer to crock pot meals!
we made 6 recipes all together and bagged them in freezer ziploc bags!
awesome.
touching all that raw meat all day was kinda gross but i think we will all happily eat it.
i will definitely blog the recipes we tried and show more pics of that soon!
i honestly can't wait to do it again!
and now i am stinkin' tired.
i am going to bed.
thanks again for the stove sponsors!!!
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Lasso the Moon - This made me choke up a little. My grandmother’s nickname was poppy. Now her daughters and grandchildren hold poppies in the highest regard as a way to remember her sweet self. Thanks for this.
Anna
Heidi Jo the Artist - {{{hugs}}} So hard to lose someone so close to you. May God bring you peace and comfort on those tougher days.
Beautiful, amazing, flowers! Oh, how I love spring!
misty - oh this post made me CRY. not tear up, not just a little cry, but one of the THERAPEUTIC cries. My grandma is so so special to me & she is getting older & it hit me the other day that {obviously} she won’t always be here & I am trying to spend so much time with her right now. 🙂 <3 <3 this post. I hope you sell some of these pics as a print in your shop. I'd love to have one. gorgeous.
elisa - Forget the big camera you did an amazing job at capturing the beauty of poppies. I love the farmer and his tractor and the sky is beautiful. I lost my Dad 7 months ago and this post made me cry….I miss him very much. He loved gardening. Thanks for posting this.
Kimberly - So beautiful. Kansas is so beautiful. I’ve never been. But I love how you can capture it for all of us.
Greetings from Wisconsin!
kristine cline - Oh boy…hit the nail on the head with this one…My grandpa passed in November and my grandma passed two years ago…The peonies made me cry…my grandma loved them so…hugs…thanks for the sweet post!
Lesa - Hi, New to you blog.
Beautiful!!
Lesa
http://www.everydaynotesblog.com
Kris Saia - I’ll bet that man on the tractor was tickled you were so taken with his poppies! I love them, too, but I can’t grow ’em for nuthin’… but I keep trying.
Tiffany - DYYYYYYYING at your selfie. The peony pics are wonderful, u sure that wasn’t ur big camera? Having your grammie in your heart is a pretty wonderful place to keep her memories. Happy Friday!
Whitney - Kansas is so so beautiful! I hope to get there someday (for a craft weekend 🙂 ) I am sure your grandmother was looking down on you smiling. Maybe if you try the poppies again she’ll watch over them and make them bloom!
beth larson - oh Meg!!! I loved this post….my momma died when I was 7 and from then on I lived with my gram. She LOVED flowers too…loved, loved, loved them. She passed that on to me and I can’t get enough of them.
I have poppies and bachelors buttons planted in my garden. I sure hope they come up. And bloom.
Your pictures inspired me!
p.s. did you take these with your phone? when I try to post I-phone pics on my blog they have to be really small or they get blurry- any advice?
xo
Michelle - I didn’t know bachelor buttons grew so tall. I always thought they had short stems, like dahlias.
Jen - Beautiful poppies, Meg! I had a dream last night that I was at your farmhouse with you and your family and Craig took me shopping to buy you presents. I bought you one large and one HUGE chalkboard for your house and an upholstered (sp?) chair for your family room. You were so excited! Then you and Craig went on a date and I noticed you lived right next door to a car maintenance repair shop, but the wide open spaces were on the other side of the house. Dreams are so weird!!!
Valerie @ Chateau a la mode - Sorry you are missing your grandma. I totally get it. Missing long, lost loved ones is hard. You must have loved her very much. She sounds like a special lady. You were lucky to know her for so long. Sending you a bloggy hug xo
Mindy - Such sweet pictures. Thankful for those memories of loved ones that come in unexpected ways.
Debbie Hargadon - Beautiful post. I have always thought – the State of Kansas should use your photos and posts as part of their Tourism Board. Your photos make everyone want to go to Kansas! I agree – that last one is spectacular. Thanks for being a positive distraction to so many of us! And the big camera isn’t always “it” It is the eye of the photographer. 🙂
Karyn - Beautiful! My Gram had beautiful flower gardens at her home in Emporia. The poppies in your pictures are lovely but it’s all the ‘bachelor buttons’ that really spoke to me and made me miss my Gram. 🙂
Carol S. - You’ve got her green thumb. My grandma died at 95 and loved flowers and gardening and cardinals and lady bugs…and now I do too. Sweet memories live on forever. It gets easier but keep telling your kids the lessons and clever things she taught you. I just told my son one of her stories about getting a job back in the late 1920s!
Stephanie - Ok, that would be “think of your grandma”….thanks, auto correct!
Gemma - Gorgeous photos! So beuatiful!
Gemma x
http://musings-of-a-gem.blogspot.co.uk/
Tracy - Awwww. I miss my grandma now, too.
The good thing to remember is that she was beaming and noticing all the beautiful details right there with you 🙂
I am always in awe of the idyllic setting you are surrounded by. I love Kansas City (we actually live in Leawood, KS) and all the conveniences just blocks away, but you make living in the country so appealing!
Amanda - My grandmother loved flowers, too. I have dozens of little envelopes full of seeds that she gave me over the years and, instead of just writing the name of the flower on the outside, she did beautiful, colored pencil drawings of them – she was also an artist.
She passed away last night and I’m about to head to New Mexico for her memorial services. You’ve inspired me to stop and take pictures of the beautiful flowers along the way.
Laura Wilder - Have you read Ashleyann’s blog today? 🙂 No wonder you are friends too! 🙂 I call beautiful moments like this ‘hugs from God’. Oh how he cares for us.
Christian T - Be sure to check Ashley Ann’s blog today… 🙂
Lisa - How gorgeous!
Melissa - Those poppies are amazing! What a neat neat guy. I feel your pain as far as missing your grandma – I was going through the same emotions last night. Oddly enough over Waffle cone wednesday at TCBY – drove by and saw the sign and remembered how that used to be our thing. Lucky we have these great memories.
Lela Pohlmann - So beautiful! Isn’t it amazing how the small things in life remind us of our loved ones. My grandma loved butterflies and amaryllis. I have many butterfly attracting plants and flowers in my yard and when the butterflies start flying, I find myself talking to them like they were my grandma.
Alaina Bennett - and the sky…oh, the sky in that last photo!
Amy M. - So beautiful! Can’t wait to see poppies in your shop! Always fun to read your blog! Have a great day!
heather - the blue flowers are bachelor buttons not weeds 🙂
a - My Grandma is old and often bitter and full of mean nasty words. She is making it very difficult to love her right now. She has not always been this way. This post made me realize how important it is for me to love her past all of that. And that one day I will miss her and ache for her and wish I had not let her brokeness tarnish our relationship. Thanks Meg.
MissPam - In Flanders Fields
The poppies blow
Between the crosses
Row on row
Do you know that poem? From WWI by John McCrae I think.
It’s why Veterans groups pass out poppies on Memorial Day.
Goggle the whole poem. I thought that you were mentioning poppies for
Memorial Day. And in an odd way you were.:)
christy - Beautiful tribute to your grandmother.
That last shot looks like a painting! Beautiful!
karen - Beautiful! You take the prettiest pictures. We have beds of orange poppies around town that are all blooming now. I always love it when I see them. 🙂 My grandma loved iris, she had every color there is in her garden. I miss her too…..
Lorie - They are beautiful! My grandmother lives in AZ and I miss living close to her. She is 93 and I dread the day I get a phone call from my parents telling me she has passed. I dread even more that I won’t be there.
🙁
I am sure your grandma was looking down on you while you enjoyed those beautiful flowers!
Kate - How beautiful. Thank you for sharing those with us. I’m so sorry you miss her. Hugs!
jody - There is a little old woman who lives in a little brown house near my home. Every night I walk by her home with my dog Lily. The old woman has beautiful poppies in her yard. I admire them every night they are in bloom & one night she was outside and said “My mother gave me that plant!” So sweet.
Love lives on. Through each beautiful thing on this planet.
Now I will think of your Grandma too when I see poppies!
Alicia @ La Famille - i have those days too. i miss my grandma too. she was a diva. a real betty draper lady…gorgeous.
beautiful pics, girl. can’t believe they’re phone pics!
Laura Lee - You have made me miss my grandma too. She had a magnolia tree in her back yard that I used to climb. I always thing of her when I see one 🙁
Kristin S - I miss my grandmother too. I called her Googie. Her favorite flower was jonquils. I planted a ton of them this year and each one made me think of her.
Kristine - Your pictures and your sentiment are so beautiful. 🙂
karen - I love this post!! So sweet! Thanks for sharing. I miss my grandma too. EVERYDAY.
Jayne Barbour - God makes beautiful things! And you’re even beautiful in your foils;)
Danielle - So pretty! What are the little blue flowers called? I bought a packet of wildflower seeds and this is exactly what it looks like on the side of my house, but my cousin swears the blue flowers are serious weeds. So, now I’m really curious! 🙂
Tonya - She was saying hello.
Stephanie - OMGosh! I’m in love. And the fact that this makes you junk of your grandma….what an awesome reason to remember someone. These flowers are very patriotic!
Terrie - Beautiful patch of flowers! I hate when I don’t have my big camera…
but, you captured it beautifully!
Bought some poppy seeds yesterday…
Yes, I’m behind…but I’m going to plant anyway. 🙂
Ashley - What a beautiful way to be remembered. I always remember my Granny and Pappy dancing around their farmhouse kitchen, or hearing them pray together as I drifted off to sleep. I think they would all be happy to hear of the ways we remember them. I have no doubt that she would be so proud of you.
Lindsey - So beautiful!
Lisa - My grandpa passed away in February and I have moments like these that remind me of him and make me miss him. You should definitely go back with your real camera. Poppies are such sweet flowers. 🙂