wistfully /adv. / characterized by longing or yearning. to be reflective in a pensive or even melancholy way. with musing. suggestive of deep thoughtfulness.
wistfully /adv./ 1. I wistfully composed quite a few posts in my head this week while I was in the shower. However they never actually made an appearance on my blog due to my workload outside of said shower. I am now wistfully dreaming of a waterproof laptop.
wistfully /adv./ 2. Olivia finished reading On the Banks of Plum Creek this week and so we headed for the bookstore on Thursday afternoon to get the next book in Wilder's series. On the way home I overheard this conversation between the girls after Olivia extolled the virtues of all things Laura Ingalls Wilder:
Savannah: Why are you talking "western"?
Olivia: Maybe I am a western girl. (and then very wistfully) Someday I'm going to go out west, like to Kansas or Wisconsin and be a western girl.
We are almost as far west as you can get, but apparently geography is not Olivia's strong suit. However, wistfulness definitely is.
wistful /adj./ 3. There is just about nothing that makes me so happy as to see my children consumed by great literature. I have nothing but wistful, sentimental feelings towards my own travels through the books of my childhood. And so this scene brought me nothing but exquisite joy:
In my defense, I did do Olivia's hair this morning, but then what we laughingly refer to as "The Ranch Incident" happened at lunch...
We arrived home from the bookstore, but the girls were so engrossed in their new books they were completely unaware and uncaring that the car had stopped. I finally fetched them out 10 minutes later when I was sure they would die of heat stroke.
wistfully /adj./ 4. This weekend was our ward's Fathers and Sons Outing. The boys had a great time camping and hiking with David, but especially loved shooting bb guns. David reported that Caleb is a terrific shot and almost the first thing out of his mouth when they arrived home was that maybe we should get Caleb a gun for his birthday. What in the world? That was definitely on my list of sentences I never thought I would hear. I immediately protested. ("He'll shoot his eye out.") Even more concerning, Ethan has already started wistfully campaigning for a bb gun of his own for his birthday. Somehow I don't think this will end well.
My little warrior looks a little too comfortable with this Red Ryder bb gun.
wistfully /adv./ 5. After wistfully longing for summer vacation since last September, we are down to single digits...only 9 days left. I can hardly stand it. I have big plans for nothing, and all of it spent together. My idea of heaven.
wistfully /adv./ 6. I spent much of the week sewing quilts for my five laurels who are graduating in less than two weeks. This has meant quite a few hours in front of my sewing machine and, unfortunately, even a couple hours of one-on-one time with my handy dandy seam ripper. I started the quilting on this one, but hated the design and ended up pulling it all out and trying something else. I am thrilled with the final result, but wistfully wish I had those unpicking hours back.
The pattern is ridiculously simple (a must when you're mass-producing 5 quilts in a week), but aren't the fabrics just yum?