My Favorite Spaces

Don't you just love a good list of "favorites"? I thought I'd share a few of my favorite spaces with you. These are the places I fritter...

Fully stocked canisters and a Kitchen Wonder Machine. Check, check! I love to cook and bake, and this is where I bungle about three out of every five recipes I try. I cook for picky eaters, so my culinary creativity is greeted with minimal applause, but I have fun trying anyway.

This morning I tried making homemade granola. This is some serious snack food, and I've been munching away at it all day. In fact, I think I'll move my stretchy jeans to the front of the closet this week, just in case. This granola is so good that I'm thinking about becoming a fabled "granola eater". I could go barefoot and have lots of kids and homeschool. Oh wait......hmmmm........

We have a big, comfy couch that we all like to pile into to watch movies or do read alouds. This is the coveted corner spot. We all dive headlong toward the couch in hopes of capturing what is truly the best seat in the house. Sometimes I win the spot, because being a Mom trumps being a kid. But sometimes I lose out, because young, spry, quick legs trump old, slow, crickity legs.

Now this chair is all mine. Well, mine and Emma's. This was my birthday gift before the baby was born. Someday this will go in the nursery, but for now it is in my room and the two of us sit here every few hours to nurse. And smile. And coo. And talk. Sometimes things get left undone so I can rock in this chair, but it doesn't bother me so much. I wish I would have rocked the first three more. This is one of the baby quilts I made for Emma. A homemade quilt and a rocking chair. Isn't that a recipe for a perfect few minutes??

This is where I come to support my new habit. It's thrilling. I'm on the very verge of a "Blogging is Beautiful" bumper sticker. I promise I am. See the furry foot warmer waiting for me? That's Mindy, my King Charles Spaniel.

The laundry room and gardening shed are notably absent from my favorites list. Those are places I most definitely do not heart. How about you? Where is your favorite space??