home – Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs..

I am a very seasonal person. I read seasonally, adjust our meals for the weather, switch up routines – really anything in my life I can be flexible with, I am. I shared some of our hobbies that we are indulging in yesterday’s post, and I thought this might be fun. Maybe it won’t be, who knows? Lol. I am just going to go with the flow as I write this and see where we end up. I don’t have a plan and I haven’t thought this out so I hope this post doesn’t stink.

Reading:

In the spring, I like to fill my shelves with books that are light, airy, colorful. A lot of them have themes centered around things or contain elements that feel like spring to me, things like farms, animals, rain, flowers. Joy filled stories. Gardens, birds, rabbits, of course rabbits. It is almost time for lakes and boating, but not quite. Cozy, but in a different way. Not the way we burrow in during the winter type cozy, but cozy in a singing songs on a mountain kind of way. Picnics. A warm day with a cool breeze. Nesting. Green and growing life. If I need something scary, I will tend to gravitate to that sort of swampy, plant type horror, botanical horror, something like Greenteeth or This Poison Heart. Because I am me, and I will always need a scare here and there.

Beauty:

I hate using that word, because I don’t think of my skincare, haircare, clothing as beauty in anyway. I am way too casual about it. I do usually change it up because my skin is different depending on the weather, and has different needs. Is this the same for everyone? Anyway, because I am in a frugal phase of my life, I have gotten stuff at the drug store rather than the fancier stuff I use in the winter. And honestly, I need the fancier stuff in the winter more than in the spring. There is something freeing, too about using less when the weather is nice. Anyway. My routine is so much easier right now. And yes, there is Pond’s cream in there! I was walking through Target and saw it and was hit with a wave of nostalgia and memories of my grandma. So I picked it up and now I think maybe grandma was right because my skin looks pretty darn good these days. (You can find out about this stuff on my Amazon board if you are interested)

As for clothing, nothing fancy friends. I need to work on this aspect of my life but for now it remains sort of easy. I homeschool, I take my son to therapy, we do lots of arts and crafts, and I do a lot of physical things during the day and my clothes reflect that. I wear overalls a lot, and usually with a tee of some sort, but if I am having an overall day with an appointment, I will wear a nicer blouse underneath, usually something thrifted and soft looking. I also having a few going out outfits but I am focusing on easy and spring here today and I am not a fashion blogger so..I am keeping it at this for today. I do tend to get a lot of compliments on my overalls though! I don’t often get to wear sundresses or skirts although I like to, it is just really hard to load and unload a wheelchair in a ladylike manner.

Meals:

Right now dinners are tending to the quick and easy side as well. Wyatt has game nights now, and I often visit my mom in the evenings so we are doing things that are fast and hopefully healthyish. Lots of sheet pan dinners, with salmon and vegetables, Korean beef, and of course our weird current favorite of sourdough, topped with goat cheese and scrambled eggs and a bit of spinach. I made a delicious chorizo and roasted red pepper frittata the other night, and honestly it was so good, so easy, and so inexpensive too! Fruit of course. Yogurt with granola for lunch for myself. I am craving banana bread hard though so I need to either make some or get some. I don’t know what that is about but I am feeling like I really would like some. Lol. If any of you all have a good recipe let me know!

I am waiting for the go ahead to start gardening here, but Michigan is being uncooperative. So come on weather, I need to restart all the seeds now that we had started before.

My house:

It is refresh and reset time around here! I have put away all the heavy linens, and with the help of the kittens now have more light in our den as we are now missing the curtain that hangs over our biggest window. They pulled it down and on the last time, I just put it away. I was like we will go back to that another time. And honestly, I like it! I like to close up the house early in the winter, but in the spring and summer I keep it open longer, and start putting the house to bed when the sun goes down.

If it feels heavy or dark, it goes away. Our bed cover right now is an old vintage quilt that was my aunt’s, and when I want to switch it up, I have another one that was my bestie’s great-grandmas (she didn’t want it!). I love an old soft vintage quilt so much.

I do have to clean my bedside table off, and the drawers out. My closet too. I think I am going to do that today and tomorrow, now that I am thinking about it.

The books that are scattered about mimic the reading I was talking about up top. My desk is covered in rabbit books, books by L.M. Montgomery, Heidi. My bedroom has books like Remarkably Bright Creatures, The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop, cozy mysteries with garden settings. I am just immersed in the things that make my soul feel happy right now. Plants are blooming and growing, the ones inside at least, there are bright spots of color everywhere, and light. All the light I can get. I love the feel of something nostalgic, soft, wholesome right now, and if it feels that way to me, I leave it or add it.

And I am going to post this without photos for now. I have to get the kittens to their appointment!

I hope that you all have a good day, and do something that makes you smile!

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So, during our COVID isolation, we had a lot of time to sit and look at our rooms. Again. I decided we pretty much need to refresh every room except my office. And the den. Lol. So the other day Wyatt and I sat down and looked at different things online to discuss his room! He had told me before he wanted outdoors and space for his room. I went more space and I think we both are unhappy with it. So, we revisited and he just wants more moon stuff to go with the outdoors stuff. That, I think we can do pretty darn easily. And, he is outgrowing the little low bed I got him, which is fine, I knew it was just a short term type thing. With his cerebral palsy I have to admit I am super nervous about him being in a big old bed alone, but I am sure there work arounds if I think about it. I am pretty creative when it comes to that.

Anyway, this is what Wyatt, with my guidance, picked. Because frankly we were not going with all of his choices. Seven year old boys have somewhat questionable taste! So let’s just say, I gave him lots of approved choices for him to pick from… although I did let him pick the colors all by himself.

First, the bedspread. We actually have a vintage Hudson Bay blanket that was in my mom’s house and she no longer wanted it, so my brother and I decided I could have it for Wyatt’s room. I think it will look really cool. I am glad we had access to one because phew they are pricey. (antique version) Although, if I can’t get it to feel less scratchy I will be getting this kids version, which is much more affordable at fifty dollars.

So, once we had that picked out we realized we needed to pick a new bed frame. We tried to find a wrought iron style with a trundle in case of overnight visits but we couldn’t really find one. He did like this one though and I agree it’s pretty cool. You can find it here. I like that it still seems pretty low and smallish which I think will be better for him to manage.

From here we looked at a million different bookshelf situations and lights. He really liked a bookshelf that looks like a little house, and I am sure Billy can build one himself all DIY style, which would be cool. I picked out the pendant light, sorry Wyatt. It was just so pretty! The light is from AADecor on Etsy. They are taking a break right now but that is ok, we are still in the planning and painting stages of everything.

We still have to talk about all his personal touches, like artwork. He does have some neat framed art already in his room that will just carryover, and some shelves with all his important things he has made or received. And his desk, which we will keep using until he outgrows it, which might be pretty soon! Then we will just move school to the dining room table, which will just free up space in his room – for more books or musical instruments or drawing stuff, knowing my son. We did pick a few new pieces of artwork out though, for the bedroom wishlist! Trying to get some of the moon elements in that way – I think that wolf print is pretty neat!