I Love...

My family
My boyfriend
Warm rain
Spas
Breezy summer days
My fluffy robe
My dog (most of the time)
A good red wine
Coffee in the morning
Tea at night
Sweatshirts
Dresses
Humming birds in the yard
Palm trees
Creating something yummy in the kitchen
Going out to eat when I don't want to create anything yummy in the kitchen
Good friends
Cups of coffee and girl talk with good friends
Flowers
Romance
Weekends away
Weekends at hom
Weekends
Writing
Reading
Learning
Shoes
Bling
Taking pictures
Art gallery shows
Festivals
Theater
Dancing
Music
Journaling
Yoga
Meditation
Fire places
Warm blankets
Soft pillows
Fluffy white clouds
Pedicures
Laughter
Baby giggles
Children
How children look when they sleep
How children look when they are sleepy
Church
Shopping
Convertibles
How I look in orange
How I feel when I get all dressed up
Going to sleep with the man I love
Waking up with the man I love
Long hot showers
Long hot bubble baths
Mimosas in the pool
Pizza
College football
Hugs
Kissing
Lazy Sundays
Friday nights
Throwing dinner parties
Book stores
Coffee shops
Framed snapshots
Framed pictures my children drew
Giving gifts
Cards
Christmas
The entire Christmas season
Hottubs outside when it's snowing
Love
Being in love
Being loved

What about you?

Much Love,
Mercedes

Camping in the Back Yard

Last night, J and I, on a whim, decided to go camping. It was WAY too late to pack things up and find a place and get food and firewood, etc...

So we decided the back yard would be the perfect spot.

The weather was beautiful and we could see all the stars and we have never been camping together (because my idea of camping is when the coffee pot in the hotel room isn't workng...)...so we decided to make ourselves a bed of blankets, leave the dog out all night, get naked and crawl into our makeshift bed (we have a VERY private back yard by the way...) and spend the night outside.

At first, it was great.

J said "See...you can do this camping thing." to which I replied "yes...being this close to a bathroom and coffee pot makes camping MUCH more my style than I thought it would be!"

After a very, very short time the dog was so excited to see us out there that it became what you might consider impossible to relax!

Khane is 70lbs of solid muscle and it was his first opportunity to lay on us and try to crawl in between us and paw my hair and lick our faces and...

Well...

Just plain be a pain in the butt!

So...he had to go back inside.

He cried.

He got over it and fell asleep.

At one point, J said to me "What woman would do something like this with me?"

I said "Any woman in her right mind, but I feel so blessed to be the one invited."

And I...well...I got to spend a lovely night all wrapped up in the arms of my love, with nature, under the stars...

I hope your evening was just as amazingly wonderful as mine was.

Much Love,
Mercedes