Our Simple Life

Life around our home is back into the normal flow and rhythm of daily life. The gentle flow of which we are all familiar...simple and ordinary.

I enjoy the daily routines of life, they make life pleasant and easy. Each day is dfferent from the other, but when looking at them all together they seem the same, as they flow together into one another.
(Unfortunately, I was unable to get any really good pictures, as it was already late in the day)

(A small glimpes of the new curtains I made. Walls, Cafe-light)

This month there are many special days of celebrating in our home...Valentines Day, my birthday, and our 18th wedding anniversary (all within a few days of each other), and though there will be celebrating, lifes rhythm will change very little.
In todays fast paced world, where "more is better" and "faster is better, I am truely thankful that our family has inherited an attitude of simplicity. Jorge and I both grew up in homes where our mothers were home with their families each day. My mother loved home and family, she showed us how to enjoy ordinary everday life. I feel so fortunate to have grown up under such influence. Mother´s wisdom far surpassed that of her contemporaries who, in the midst of the feminist movement were leaving their homes in droves to persue "careers and higher achievements", their lives being pulled in different directions as they juggled career and family.
My mother worked until her mid-twenties, she was the secretary to Captain Hyman Rickover, of the United States Navy, back in the early 1950´s. He led a team of engineers that developed the worlds first nuclear powered submarine, the most technologically advanced submarine of it´s time. Then again, for a short time in the late 1950´s, as I recently learned from my father, she worked under John Glenn, at General Dynamics in San Diego, CA, where he was involved in design and development of spacecraft. General Dynamics is a leading defense contractor, and is part of a huge corporation. The aeronautical unit was located in San Diego. Early in her marriage, and once they started our family, she came home to raise us and teach us about the truely important things in life.

A couple of weeks ago, when Jorge was out of town on a business trip, I told you how the children and I had done some painting in our home. It was a simple, but enjoyable time that we spent together... working and sharing, teaching and learning, eating and playing...family.

The pictures I have posted are of the livingroom that we have finished. Because there were no before or during pictures (remember, Jorge took the camera), there will be nothing to measure the completed project to, but take my word for it it is much improved.

While I was on the foofing roll, I wanted a new touch of something for our library shelves (it actually houses very few of our books), and made an initial monogram of our last name to put in an old frame I found shelved in our hall closet. I found the lettering style I liked on the computer, then enlarged it to fit the frame and matting I had. I was happy with the results and Jorge was quite suprised by our accomplishments during the week he was away.

Life, pure and simple....full.