Denim Daisies

 Hello! Last night/early morning was a long one. I absolutely love doing volunteer work with the zoo to help preserve these beautiful and amazing species, though the midnight to 4am shift can be tough. It was particularly fun this morning because my mother slept over to train up on this work and so it was fun having girl time at a strange hour. 🙂 Our current idea for all decorations is that we invest in fun and quality items but only get one to two things a year and slowly build up. This way we are budget friendly and also going for quality that stands the rest of time and doesn’t fill the landfills every year, but still have a lot of fun with celebrating the seasons and holidays. 💛 Halloween is, of course, the current season and our theme for our overall decor is Disney/haunted mansion with some just fun and cute accents inside. The decoration we got for this year was a series of banners that look like the stretching walls in the entry elevator and I LOVE it!!! The only other thing

 Good Morning, Thank you Marie Kondo for coining the "brings me joy" statement. It has been a good thing to fall back on and when things that I am doing to bring joy are no longer working it might be time to take a pause or even remove that entirely. Writing every day began to feel more like a chore than an outlet and I'm not always the most creative to begin with unless it comes to power query or excel so creative writing for fun is new for me.  That said, I think that break was exactly what I needed and I want to be able to have the memories of this time in life for years to come. Not being on social media (or at least active on the accounts that I haven't deleted) makes that slightly more challenging, but I think this is a healthy compromise.  Below are the things that have brought me joy for the past few weeks while I took a pause from writing in no particular order: 1. morning quiet time - I've done the Bible Recap this year and this has been a really positiv