There is a young woman who was a wife and a stay-at-home-mama.  She enjoys reading and working in her garden.  She frequently spends free time with ladies from church. Her and her family can often be found grilling and conversing on the patio with their neighbors. She reminisces old times with old friends and goes to bed by 11:00, even on weekends.  The woman enjoys cooking and finding yummy recipes that are also healthy for her family.  She is trusted by many to handle backyard estrogen levels and sort out kitten fights.  She does so with out a scratch.

But she’s happiest sitting on the patio with a sun dress on; happy little girls in the yard and her topless husband serving cold fruit and pouring her a fresh glass of sweet iced tea.

When did I become that woman?  So domestic and “simple.”  Being a grown up is so surprising sometimes.

I’ve finished my first book of the summer season and its one I must pass on.

For Women Only by Shaunti Feldhahn is great for any woman who deals with men whether it be a son, husband or at work.  In her book, Feldhahn shares the finding from her extensive research on the inner life of men.  What they really think, how they really work and {more importantly} how they feel.

Feldhahn gets straight to the point, here, which makes for a short and quick read.  She’s real and honest, without any sugar-coating.  She covers subjects such as respect, sex and feelings.  And more importantly, she really does focus on men only.  Not how they should be, how we can make them do what we want, or even how to use them for our own happiness.  But how to understand them and know better what they need/want for their own true happiness.

There’s also a For Men Only.  I’m wondering if there’s any way I can get my husband to read that one.

If you do or have read this book, what did you think?  What sections were the most eye-opening for you?

Oh, darlin’.  What a week it seems to have been.

In case you hadn’t noticed, Fuzzy Little Wishballs has been through, yet another, makeover.  This was all initiated by some malware code being planted in my blog.  Yep, I got hacked, yet again.  Needless to say, I’ve sought out the best in security plugins and tightened my ropes.  This baby’s solid–err I hope.

Luckily, I had planned on doing a redesign after school let out, so I already had a pretty good idea of what I wanted.  I love the new look and hope you don’t have any trouble finding what you need.  If you’ll notice, I actually switched some links out over on the right.  Some that were never used {google+ & tumblr} for new ones {flickr & instagram}.

So, please look around and see what you can get into.   Also, I’m missing quite a bit of posts from my first six months.  I’m still working on getting that restore.  That’s taking a back burner, for now, though.

With gas prices consistently rising, I’m sure we’re not the only ones trying to cut back on unnecessary travels.  However, I find having only one car a little helpful.  Its easier to track our traveling and fill-ups.  And with work, Billy is hoping to keep his closer-to-home position because of the convenient bike-riding distance.

Speaking of bike rides, we decided to use leg power instead of gas power for a family outing this past weekend.  I don’t mean just a leisurely ride; we were going to attend at church function a few miles from home.  So we had a purpose and destination.  Since Lilie is still a novice rider and we were to be on/near busy roads, we decided to use the pull behind trailer.

We weren’t far down the road before Billy was huffing and puffing and working up a real sweat {his bike was pulling the trailer}.  However, we quickly found that his struggles were not merely lack of physical shape, rather two flat tires.  By the way, have you ever road a bike or pulled a trailer with flat tires?  Holy cow.  That’s a story for another time.  Yeah, it sucks.

Anyway…

So, both the trailer’s tires were flat.  No big deal; just tough it out a bit more.  There’s a gas station on the way.  We survive the busy roads I was worried about and safely make it to the gas station.  We scrounge enough change to trade in for $1 {a whole dollar for air!?} and get the first tire airing up.  Then…

•POP•

After literally three seconds, the tire literally pops.  And that was the end of our family outing on bikes.  We walked, off and on, back home and called it a night.

I look forward to more bike rides to come.  Lilie has started practicing with no training wheels and I imagine she’ll be more interested in longer trips as she gets better.  I remember my family taking bike rides through the neighborhoods.  Good memories.  We had this on particular gas station we liked to ride to for frozen yogurt.  Hmm… I wonder if we could make it to Sonic from here.  Happy Hour anyone?

Moral of the story: looking for a more intense workout? Don’t check the tires before you start your ride.

The house has been too quiet this past week.  Lilie Jo has been on Spring Break and therefore went to spend some time with her Daddy.  I know she’s having a blast {bc we call each other so often} but she has been terribly missed.  But breaks are always good for everyone.  And like they say: distance makes the heart grow fonder.  As if my heart could possible hold any more love for that child.

In the mean time, I’ve tried to spend my week being 100% wife to Billy.  Our time has been good together.  Here are some of my favorite things from this past week:

• Walking in the woods and getting lost with cool people.  Oh, yeah, and Gus, the turtle.  He escaped after only four days.  I’m sad Lil doesn’t get to see the little guy.
• Getting invited to work behind the scenes with the media team at church.
• Sitting on the patio without having to fuss at little girls who don’t always play nicely.  But I’d be lying if I said I didn’t miss it.
• Having the quiet house all to myself on the nights Billy works.  Sippin’ decaf earl grey watching the boob-tube.  {do people still even call it that?}
• My Wednesday night small group with ladies from church.  I love getting to know these girls.
• Sipping coffee made by my love.  That is seriously one of the most romantic things to me: when Billy makes me coffee.
• Instagramming.  In case you’ve missed the buzz, Instagram has finally become available in the Android market and this girl couldn’t be more please.  Instagram was the only reason I ever had for possibly switching to iPhone.  No need, now.  BTW follow me @meghannchapman
• Sitting in Centennial Park with Billy after our Nashville errand yesterday.  We took a picnic, threw the frisbee and I drew some.  It was a pretty much perfect day, really.

And that wraps up my adult-only week of goodness.  My baby comes home this evening and Mama couldn’t be more excited to see her.  Seven whole days, she has been gone.  Much too long, if you ask me.  But I admit, its a great little cushion for this last month of school.  Maybe it won’t be quite as stressful with a better state of mind.

But enough about me.  What about you?  What’s your favorite thing from this past week?

And it starts: the long stretch of the last month of Spring semester.  It always seems to be worse than Fall.  I think Spring semester is worse because that’s when Mother Nature decides to bless us cabin fever-stricken, sunburn-deprived, Summer babies with a bit of fair weather after months of wintry torture.

Don’t get me wrong.  I love boots, scarves, cozy sweaters and cardigans; but a southern bred girl can only take so much before she needs her toes in the grass and sun-kissed skin to bring her back to life.

As the professor’s use the last month to pile on the load of final projects, homework and whatever else they forgot to assign earlier in the semester, I become Princess Procrastinator.  I call myself the princess because as bad as I seem to be, there’s always at least a few in the class that are worse.  I’ve known several to literally walk out of the computer lab with freshly finished projects to turn in, still wearing the yesterday’s outfit.

Also, princess just makes me sound more fresh and sexy.

Due to my near-mastering of the skill, I’d like to share my top five methods of Spring semester procrastination:

“I think I need a snack.  Bagel?  Salad?  String Cheese!”

“Flickr?  Oh, yeah, I was meaning to go make a new account of there…”

“Oh!  Idea.  Let’s write a blog post.” {hence, you are reading this}

“Hmm, now I think I want a glass of iced tea.  Crap, someone drank the last of it.  Guess I’ll make more.”

“The patio sure does look lonely out there.  Someone’s gotta hold the fort down; might as well be me.”

I know what you’re thinking, “How is the patio and excuse?  You can do your work on the patio.” *insert wrong answer buzzer sound* Wrong–well, kind of.  I can get my work done there, if I have plenty of time.  Because with the patio comes little girls, excessive daydreaming, chatting with whoever, random inspiration, and more daydreaming.

Ok, that’s enough procrastinating.  Back to that drawing essay I was writing.

p.s.  Notice I didn’t list Facebook or Twitter.  I assume you follow me there and, therefore, I need not list the most obvious of methods.

What are your favorite methods of procrastination?? 

This weekend was very soul healing–or some hippie joojoo like that.  It was mostly spent at home, in the backyard, with my amazing little family and I just wanted to share a couple of my favorite photos of it.  Friday night was mostly a girl thing.  Billy worked and Alicia came over and helped hold the back patio down with me.  We watched over a yard of little girls and sat, chatting, late into the night.

Saturday was mostly lazy.  Frankie had her 5th birthday celebration, so we had no choice but to have a little fun with some of my favorite people.  She had a circus/carnival theme ful of face paint, cotton candy and popcorn cupcakes.  Lilie was cracking me up with her puppy dog face and Harry Potter glasses.  I swear she looked like a cartoon character.

After the party, my little brother and sister drove down for some UK basketball, grilling and hair coloring.  Another night wasted away on the back patio.  *sigh* Oh, how I love pretty weather.  Sunday was spent doing the exact same thing.

Its also been brought to my attention that Lilie and I will be spending the summer by the pool with our best friends.  One of our Christmas presents was a season pass for each of us to a local waterpark. Well, I’ve finally recruited the bffs {and Frankie} to do the same so we have some company.  I’m stoked.  I see a lot of sun screen in my very near future.

I’m so ready to be a beech bum all summer.  Its going to be fabulous.

Morning, sweet pea! Hope you’re enjoying this week as much as me!  A few things I’d like to note:

First: I attended my first small group meeting last night.  It was wonderful.  We’re following a lesson book by Beth Moore.  From what I’ve seen so far, this woman is amazing.  I really feel her speaking to me on a personal level.  I can’t wait to dive in deeper.  Also, I love the relationships I’m building, here.

Second: The weather has been absolutely perfect this week.  I even {accidentally} got my first sunburn of the season.  Time to pull out my sun screen and floppy hat, I suppose.  Dandelions are in abundance and my vases are being put to use once more.  These photos were taken during a break from the August heat, last summer.  I’m excited for sun dresses and playful days in the sun, to come.

Third:  I may just be silly and imagining things, but I feel something coming.  I don’t know if it will bring happiness or hurt to us, but I feel it looming.  Intuition is a real thing, right?  If its a good thing, great.  If not, I invited it none the less.  Bring it.  I picked up a great verse at my small group meeting which is a great reminder of why we should appreciate the bad as much as the good.  I invite you to read John 16:20-24.

And that’s all.  As I said before, I hope your week is going as well as mine.  Nothing big has taken place, but then again, its the small things that matter most, right?

Share: Tell me one thing that has made you smile this week.

Happy Friday, darlin’.  Are you relieved its here?

Spring Break is winding down and I feel it wasn’t a waste.  I have a completely clean house to show for it.  Oh, and A nice new shop open for business.  :)

Though I have tried to keep myself from being completely worthless, I’ve also allowed myself to be  lazy a bit.  Time sipping coffee and finding time lost in a day dream, time writing, designing, planting some herb seeds, time wasted in front of the boob tube and time aimlessly wandering the web.

I hadn’t used StumbleUpon in a while, so the other day I thought I’d see what I could find.  I love finding new things to feast my mind on.

Over at Stylist I found this really great list of the Top 100 Opening Lines from Books.  I was happy to see some of my favorites made the list.

I found this list of  ideal food combinations to be both interesting and helpful.  I know that growing certain herbs/veggies together was beneficial to growth, but I didn’t realize eating certain food paired together could be beneficial to your health.

I’ve seen this site before, but I’m not sure if I shared it or not.  It is probably one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a while.  This lady takes drawings by children and gives them life as a toy.  So clever.  What a special little treasure to hold on to.

The National Education Association has a list of Top 100 Books for Kids.

Though I have yet to hop onto the ebook wagon, if I did finally decide to own one, I’d insist on this case.  I don’t really think I have to tell you how amazing I think these are.  They’re gorgeous and I love them.

T’ is all.

Have a blessed weekend!

Afternoon, love!  I just wanted to take a minute to note how beautiful the weather has been the past couple days!  Today, I’ve decided to take my work outdoors.  I had lunch and am now enjoying some sweet tea out here on my back patio.  Its a bit windy, but nothing a light jacket can’t fix.

I stopped by Kroger on my way home from class and grabbed a pack of sushi from the deli.  I was overjoyed to notice they have finally set out their seeds for this Spring.  Can’t wait to get some things growing in the back yard!

Hope you’re having a lovely day!