{Virtual Coffee}

{It's Tuesday, time for coffee.
A big thank you to Corrine for hosting coffee for me this morning. After coffee you should go visit her blog here. She is awesome!}

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If we were really sitting down for coffee today... I'd tell you...

That I'm almost beside myself with excitement! Being able to sit and chat with friends of Amy is a gift, as I adore her, and imagine that friends of hers are equally warm, thoughtful, and inspiring as the woman behind Virtual Coffee.



I would tell you about the orchard a few towns over from here where my kids and I spend slow, quiet mornings. How much better their seasonal fruit tastes because we picked it ourselves, fingers and arms dripping with strawberry juices. How we fork over a few dollars for warm cider donuts and sit beneath an apple tree and protect our morning snack from the wandering geese.



I would tell you how I finally broke down and bought a few new skirts for these hot months. How I hate shorts and live in my jeans. But it's too hot these days. How I'm celebrating the new fresh fabrics and waist bands that haven't been stretched by a pregnant belly. I'd tell you how I swirl and twirl just because I can, and how the fabric swings around and brushes my legs and makes me smile.



I would tell you how glad I am that my children are becoming friends. How amid the fighting and the tantrums and the "mine" and "don't touch!" they are starting to play together. And it warms my heart and makes me proud of these little beings who didn't chose to live under the same roof, but they occasionally chose to like each other.



I would tell you that even though it's only the middle of July, I'm ready for autumn. For brilliant reds and oranges, apple picking, crisp mornings and sun kissed sweater afternoons.



And if you were really sitting across from me, having coffee or an iced chai latte {like me...}, I'd ask you what's on your heart today. What makes it flutter and even what makes it cringe a little. And I'd thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for meeting up with me and spending a few minutes talking. Hearts open and minds focused for just a bit, for smiling and laughing and making the day just a little better with your presence.