you may say i'm a dreamer...

Luke and I got to spend the day together and we had a chance to check out a new little restaurant that recently opened in our neighborhood and it has our favorites..sushi and thai food! It's run by the cutest couple around our age, he creates the dishes and she serves them..the perfect partnership. I love seeing people have a dream come true and I plan on visiting their little place often. It was so delicious and beautifully presented, I love the little added details and sushi is such a pretty food to eat!

We've had really weird fall like weather lately that was perfect for a walk around our historic neighborhood. There is an amazing old building that we're in love with, It looks like it was a bar at one time and it would be so beautiful restored. I would love to turn it into an old fashioned cafe/bar with modern comfort food made from fresh, local ingredients and old movies playing in the background. Quiche,soups,salads..and sweet tea!

It would be named "Nola's" after my amazingly eclectic grandma who recently passed away. My family is from the south(Tennessee/sharecroppers) and she moved to Georgia to live with my aunt when she got older and I missed being able to see her every day. She became very sick and discovered she had rapidly spreading breast and pancreatic cancer and was gone within a few weeks. I flew(my only plane ride) to spend time with her and did her makeup and hair like I always did when I saw her, she loved how pretty she looked! I wanted to learn everything about her that I possible could in the time we had left. In the hospital I laid in bed with her and she told me stories about her heritage and how she used to make her own lye soap and apothecary products and take mud baths in her backyard! She had the prettiest skin with barely a wrinkle at 71 years old, her "weirdness" was something to learn from. I remember her cooking wild foods like cattail shoots and dandelions and making natural teas for me to try. She had beautiful long dark hair that she rinsed with fresh rain water and to this day I still put my bucket out to catch the falling drops when the rain comes in. I remember walking in her dimly lit house(by lanterns, it was a tiny wooden place tucked in trees), and admiring all of her old furniture and pieces that she had added her own personal touches to. She lived simply and quietly and a lot of people didn't get her..I did. When she died I was given all of her old books and the stunning antique wedding band set that I now wear as my own.  My mom tells me how much I remind her of Nola and I want to keep her memory alive, the worst thing I could do is forget such a special women!

Later we ventured out to see a movie at the local theater. We don't get to go to the movies very often so I wanted it to be a good one..it was.

I'm so lucky my husband and I found each other..we can be "weird" together in this thing called life and create our own paths and dreams. Who knows, we may even have a little place named "Nola's" one day!