STAYcation 2017 highlights

The beuaty of the staycation is you really aren't DOING.  You are BEING.  Being restful.  Being productive. Being fabulous.

My STAYcation highlights are as follows...
- Checking out Beloit, Wisconsin
- Relaxing on Sunday after church...which turned in to me finishing my book and starting a new one inbetween two 20-minute catnaps
- Trying a new almond milk iced mocha recipe (and LOVING IT)
- A roadtrip to Bolingbrook IKEA which turned out to be soooo much more than just an IKEA run.  It was therapy.  Beautiful iron sharpening therapy.
- Binge-thrifting and retail shopping on a quest to find the perfect coffee station cart or dresser.  Sadly nothing was purchased.
- A Meg's evening with Trudy...again, oooh so good for my soul
- Making and enjoying French-pressed coffee each morning.

And now today...the last day of this my 5-day STAYcation, I am sitting at the lake.  Why stay home and have lunch there when for a couple gallons of gas and $3 for parking, I could enjoy lunch by the lake.

I did splurge and get myself one of those cool beachy straw hats.  The kind you wear with a cute vintage navy with white polkadots swimsuit and gigantic sunglasses and you feel like Marilyn Monroe...minus the allowing my skirt to blow up in the wind. 

So here I sit with my beachy read and my beachy hat and my vintage swimsuit and sunglasses.

I love the lake.

I love how the water is calming.

I love the peace and quiet of not being in the city.