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Celebrate!

 What do I want for my birthday?  Some years that question has left me feeling bewildered and discouraged because I had no answer.  Not happening this year.  It did take me some time to hand over a list, but I had one already started well before the beginning of February.  This year the difficulty has been narrowing it down.

 Currently I am typing on one of my presents, the

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I am enjoying a Starbucks Via Pumpkin Spice "latte" in my own kitchen this morning.

Celebration

Breakfast this 70-degrees-and-breezy morning was a serving of Cascadian Farm Oat and Honey Organic Granola with almond milk, homemade whole grain wheat and toasted wheat germ toast with natural peanut butter, coffee and water.  Generally I try to limit grains and carbohydrates for breakfast, but this morning I splurged.  The change in our weather makes me want to celebrate! 

I am also rejoicing that I finished the costumes and props for our 1Voice team!  Although I have not yet sewn on the quilt that I was planning to work on this summer, it  was still fun to sew something!  Furthermore another finished knitting project means that I am free to choose a new project -- hooray!  (How many exclamation points do I need to use?)  I have one in my sights, but have not found the appropriate yarn as of yet, so until then I cast on an anklet sock late last night.  I might as well be knitting something until I find the yarn. 

And then tonight is "July birthdays celebration night" with extended family.  Fullness of joy is mine!

What are you celebrating or could you celebrate today?



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Simple Holiday Felicity

Christmas and my birthday present the same kind of challenge for me.  Generally I don't have ideas about "what I want" for either special day.  This year I did have a some ideas, and two of them were rather pricey for our budget.  In the process of "trying on" the idea of a Keurig single cup brewing system, hubby and I were enjoying our usual coffee break on date night when the idea of a pour over coffee maker seemed to be a better fit.  My dear hubby had already researched the item and was enthusiastic about it as an alternate gift idea.  On Christmas morning, I was thrilled to open my new Melitta Pour Over Filter Cone.  

I was ecstatic after sampling my first cup of homemade pour over coffee.  


I should back up a step before charging ahead (I am noticing lately that I seem to have a habit of starting in the middle, going back to the beginning and then filling in the details after the middle).


Hubby and I decided to give each other a shared gift of a Mr. Coffee Automatic Burr Mill Grinder (we bought ours from Target).  We did not wait until Christmas to use it.

So my fabulous first cup of pour over coffee on Christmas day was made thus partly because of the amazing burr mill.


Then today on our way home from church, we stopped in to our favorite coffee shop and discovered they were selling their seasonal blends buy-one-get-one-free deal.  We picked up one regular seasonal and one espresso seasonal.  


Felicity!  I discovered that I adore the espresso seasonal milled on the setting three clicks to the left of the middle, 4 tablespoons of coffee beans to 10 oz. of not quite boiling water, then cooled to lukewarm.  Oh the joys of the holidays!


Felicitous 2012 to everyone!

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