weekending. my favorite part of the week. a time to relax, live, love, just be. if you’d like to share your weekend either with words, photographs, or both, leave a link to your weekend post or flickr photo in the comments.
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this weekend was mellow
mellow and well, just a bit lazy
grey skies, gentle rumblings
the gentle hush hush of rain
enjoying the silence of my house while
kids buried their noses in books
imagining faraway places
i did nothing for a while
no knitting, no reading, no writing
just staring out the window watching
the rain fall, rain dancing down glass
still finding seashells in hidden places which
makes me love my kids madly
standing under an umbrella
rain dancing at my feet because the
red bean was sure her horse friends needed
company and carrots (they did)
red wine and the tudors season two
standing in the light of the freezer at midnight
eating homemade strawberry ice cream from the container
made from the last of the local strawberries, raw milk
my man makes a mean ice cream
today, more rain, more nothing
how was your weekend?
ps: i’m giving away a copy of this i know by susannah conway. to enter the giveaway, leave a comment on this post.
A lovely date with my daughter to restore a bit of balance and remind her just how special she is. Would love some of that strawberry ice cream. Miss our raw milk source.
We are suppose to have a rainy afternoon and I do wish it would get here, I do love the sound of rain as it hits the roof. Eating homemade out of the container by freezer light must be heaven on a spoon..enjoy!
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A swimmy silly weekend for us… your’s sounds lovely!
http://edegraw.me/life/weekending-little-fish/
Rain here too… so nice really–it washes away any concerns of laziness, and welcomes it instead…
I enjoyed the Tudors very much, and am now working on season 2 of Downton Abbey. LOVE that show. Have a great week Amanda!
xo
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ahhh. my weekend started friday. it was full of little bits. http://www.emmatree.com/2012/06/when.html
Nothing…can be a beautiful thing.
…with some icecream ofcourse
Happy Sunday!
aren’t ‘the tudors’ so visually and everything stimulating?
i’ve been reading a lot – always my escape and release. total, mind candy – nothing literary and
it feels good to not have to think or be provoked to think, (heehee), with this anne rice series i
picked up at the library.
this weekend is all about packing and then some more packing, (ugh), with a movie last night
and a hike and dinner today. it’s nice to work hard and then have an evening of fun.
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I keep giving my husband heavy hints about how much I love ice cream.
Although, my hopes are more for an ice cream machine one day..
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This sounds like my kind of perfect weekend! Ahh.. sweet nothing.
I so want to make my own ice cream someday! I love rainy days. Gives a slowness to the day that is so peaceful. Our weekend was full of sunshine…which is good too! (As long as it doesn’t get too hot!)
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sounds lovely, the ice cream especially. i used to love finding seashells everywhere too, sand not so much, but living at the beach with 5 small children, what could i expect. hee hee.
I can hear your rain and it makes me very calm somehow, or just reading your weekending did. Joining you today, before some more football:
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mellow weekends imagining faraway places… that sounds lovely. kids noses in books… loving that too. here’s my weekend… http://totrainupachildwithlove.blogspot.com/2012/06/to-have-bookish-weekend.html
My weekend was…http://smiejowisko.blogspot.de/2012/06/it-is-so-funny.html
Sounds like avery lovely weekend…especially the ice cream! Have a great week and I would love to win your give-away book! My weekend was…
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I sort of wish that my weekend was filled with nothing. We were driving up and down the US to visit his family!! homemade ice cream…..you are so lucky!!
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nothing and rain. sounds like our weekend just gone too. i think those are the best kinds of weekends.
xx
oohh, my daughter also made strawberry ice cream.
and i love imagining faraway places.
no rain, just lots of sunshine here.
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hey, i love that. doing nothing, staring at the rain and eating homemade icecream! sounds wonderful. i have a weekending post to share this week, too:
http://artsyants.blogspot.de/2012/06/weekend-walking-in-woods.html
have a good start to your week, amanda!
I want some of that ice cream!
We’ve had some rain too…I love the sound of rain drumming against the windows…especially when i’m tucked up in bed with the shipping forecast on the radio….
Have a good week
Deb
whoops forgot my link
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Homemade icecream?! Sounds absolutely divine – lucky you
I love staring out at the rain too.
How cute discovering seashells lying around the house!
http://pinkronnie.com/2012/06/up-high-by-the-sea/
So often I get discouraged about the lack of creativity in our culture. I notice this particularly in myself as I spend too much time on the computer, watching tv, and simply partaking in habitual activities. Actively using our minds is becoming less of a necessity as we rely on technology to be creative for us! How do we be creative in a technological world? I’d absolutely love to read this book!
ah the poetry of rainy days…sometimes they grew such great ideas.
We were too busy being social butterflies for much pondering:
http://heyunit.blogspot.com/2012/06/our-weekend.html
I get what you mean about staring in the rain. It was that way around here for a while. But the way you described it – so lovely, like a scene painted in that crisp blue of sea glass.
Homemade ice cream – what a keeper you’ve got there. I know you already know that of course. I meant to make some ice cream with a second hand maker I picked up. I just might now, the idea of sneaking down to devour some with bare toes on chilly kitchen floors is almost too much.
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I’m glad you enjoyed the rainy weather. It makes me depressed. Your ice cream sounds really good! Our weekend was full of living and laughing with friends. http://themahoganyway.wordpress.com/2012/06/11/with-friends/
“Never underestimate the value of doing nothing” ~A.A.Milne
“What I like doing best is Nothing.”
“How do you do Nothing,” asked Pooh after he had wondered for a long time.
“Well, it’s when people call out at you just as you’re going off to do it, ‘What are you going to do, Christopher Robin?’ and you say, ‘Oh, Nothing,’ and then you go and do it.”
truth – i longed to have nothing to do all weekend
Love those nose-in-book rainy days.
We’re busy, busy getting settled.
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soft grey and busy children… and homemade ice-cream. sounds like a recharging sort of weekend. lovely.
me: http://ink-and-chai.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/weekending.html
After this one, I’m looking forward to a mellow, slow weekend like yours!
here’s mine: http://www.shetoldstories.com/2012/06/weekending-1.html
Oh, that ice cream sounds divine. We love a good rainy day around here too.
Our weekend: http://alifesustained.blogspot.com/2012/06/weekending_11.html
I just started watching the Tudors and was really surprised by how intense it was right off the bat! Homemade strawberry ice cream? Mmmm. Here’s a bit of my weekend: http://treesalldance.com/2012/06/11/weekending-10/
My weekend was a mix of work and rest. A major storm and some knitting ;o)
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Our weekend was spent in trees escaping the heat of the low desert. http://littlehomesteadinthedesert.blogspot.com/2012/06/weekending.html
I just loved The Tudors!!! Here’s mine: http://supermergentroidgal.blogspot.com/2012/06/weekending.html
did you watch all of the tudors? enjoy da2…sooooo good!
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is your ice cream maker the hand crank/rock salt version? i kinda miss that kind of ice cream maker, played such a big part of my childhood taking turn with that damn crank!
xo
I enjoyed the rainy weekend. we’ve had lazy weekends 2 weekends in a row now, and I love it!
We sat under umbrellas of shade, hiding our bare toes from a midwest heat wave as we watched our boys play in their last soccer tournament of the season. I heart your sweet blog:) XO
You make “nothing” sound so blissful. I want some of that so I think I’ll plan for some “nothing” in a few weeks. That ice cream sounds delicious and I don’t even like strawberry ice cream. Such a lovely weekend.
xo
Ang
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what a great give away….how could i not enter for her book
ps….i love your simpleness….especially your weekends {weekending}…..and always wait to see what you did or didn’t do.
the words here are beautiful. always.
thank you beth!
hi there….
I am glad you had such a mellow weekend.
shows such intelligence to just be able to be and not do.
XO
C
Doing nothing sounds perfect.
This is so beautiful, I love it.
So important to do nothing sometimes. That being said, you had a beautifully full weekend!
Been looking for a new and inspiring book to sink into.
Thank you for the opportunity!
Oh, that sounds to blissfully quiet!