Thankful Thursday

Today, I'm thankful for:

1) our orchid finally blooming!!2) the sun poking through. Aaaaahhhhh!
and
3) the freedom to (legally) educate our children however we see fit.

Happy Thursday to one and all!

"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home." ~ Johann von Goethe

Orchid you not

Heh heh...I like puns...

Anyway, Ms. Joanna has a fabulous, flowering orchid that I'm rather envious of (but it can't convince me to move to FL), and I've agreed to share a photo of our not-so-fabulous and definitely not-flowering orchid. I had bought a fake orchid which looks amazingly life-like and which graces our half-bath. Here's the photo; see if you can spot the fake. ;) I have faith that some day, our orchid will grow up to have beautiful flowers - like maybe when we ship it to Florida!

On another note, I finally finished hemming all the pants that I bought at thrift and consignment stores in Vancouver this past summer. Boy, I don't like to hem pants."The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet." ~ James Oppenheim