Summer!

Salam 3alaikum ladies!

I know the "official" start of summer isn't until later, but in the south summer starts on May 5th.

May 5th starts the strawberry season and strawberry season starts the summer y'all!

So here is the new banner and icon for the occasion!!! Enjoy!

I is for...

Imagination:

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This is one thing about little kids that I love so much. They have awesome imaginations (unless we squash them out, which I have been guilty of doing astaghfirullah).

What is it about little kids that makes imagination necessary? Is it that their short attention spans need constant stimulus so they provide entertainment from within? Is it a coping mechanism to help them sort out all of the new concepts they are starting to notice and understand? Is it practice for being a grown up?

And why do we eventually lose our imagination as we grow? Are we too stuck in the real world?

I keep thinking that I read fiction books because this is like taking an "imagination supplement." I can't be bothered come up with stuff on my own anymore, so I pay people to do it for me. Some people do this with TV and movies too.

This leads me to believe that we really do need our imagination for something. There is something about it gives relief and rest for our minds; a vacation from the intense focus we require from ourselves these days.

On that note, I'm going to go spend some time taking my imagination supplement.

Buona lettura!

Addiction

Salam 3alaikum girls,

My name is New Wife... and I am addicted to office supplies.

Seriously I love them to distraction. I love getting stuff to organize other stuff and having every color of pen I could possibly want and having multiple empty notebooks for any random idea that I get.

I'm the kind of person who has to really convince myself that I need a new shirt or pair of socks, but I find it so difficult to keep myself from buying a new notebook, journal, or pen set.

I took a picture of the evidence to show you...

It doesn't look like much but you should know that this is just what I brought with me when I got married... I was severely limited  by weight and size constraints and I knew my husband would rather I bring my pretty dress than my awesome sharpie collection. 

I'm telling you I have amassed boxes of this stuff over my lifetime. It is difficult for me to throw it away even, just in case I need it later. My mom use to make me sit down every year and try each pen and marker to make sure they worked and it was even hard to throw away the dry ones! (Later I found out that you can do some cool art projects with dry watercolor markers and I was so upset that I had thrown them away lol)

If I am in a bad mood, a little 50 cent notebook can usually cheer me up. There is something so awesome about the potential of those empty pages and pretty color inks...

What is your addiction/ guilty pleasure???