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I was frustrated this week with the outside of my house. It's a little blah - especially after the nearby neighbors completely redid their yard. They even put adorable shutters up. I decided to try and see what suggestions the internet had for making my front porch cute. I like the green door a lot better than the black, but I love all the plants so much. It would be so amazing to be able to have a front yard that looked like this. Maybe overtime it would become outdated, so I shouldn't feel bad I have no money to do such things. 

This was a long, hard week because I was disappointed from not being able to go to my parents. I tried to keep myself busy with good things, but I spent a lot of time being sad. 

Lisa Harrison asked me if I wanted her to come over and help me put in my fairy garden. I have been so unmotivated to do anything in the yard. But, I got excited that she suggested such a thing. We ended up having a very lovely chit chat while I weeded the garden, and then put the fairies in it. I also decided to go to IFA and see if they had any flowers. Thankfully, they had tiny red/white geraniums for just .99 so I bought an entire flat. Now, my front garden bed looks a little more happy. 

I felt like I was at Walmart a million times this week to pick up one or two little things each time. One of the times I went I saw these shoes. They look like shoes Larry would wear and I just had to take a minute in the store aisle to grieve him not being here. We are coming up on 2 years of him being gone, and I can feel it deep in my bones. It's awful. 

I'm working on a project to submit for the fair. It's a little corn husk doll that will be holding an American flag. I spent a lot of time fighting with the flag to make it work. It's been annoying. Hopefully, I can get it finished today. It really helped when I found some star shaped fabric at Hobby Lobby. That way I didn't need to embroider stars on what I was trying to work with. 

I also spent a couple of hours volunteering at the DUP museum on Saturday. The other lady that was with me just lost her husband - not even a month ago - and we sat and cried a bunch together. She married young and has never been without him. Obviously, it's been very hard. We did find some silly things to laugh about too. Like, when we couldn't find an electrical outlet to plug in the vacuum. 

While I was there I worked on making a tiny apron for my doll. It ended up so cute! Once I have all of it done I will include a picture. My neighbor, Lisa (from above), let me have some brown wool yarn so I'm using that for her hair. It's going to be super adorable when she is done. I think she fits right in at the DUP museum. 

I took this last picture at the library. For the 250th celebration they have a place to write down what you want for American in the next 250 years. This one was so cute and funny. I too have fond memories of Toys "R" Us with Peter and Luke. 

Oh, one more picture..... Yesterday, I saw this shopping cart in the soccer field at the nearby park. I think it's so weird to randomly have there. It feels appropriate to mention that my neighbor also has a Walmart shopping cart in their yard. Maybe it's a thing right now to steal shopping carts and put them random places.