For today… Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Outside my window... Cold. Wind. Snow.
Hearing... Wind.
Pondering... too much to pinpoint and list.
Praying...
Denise is having an even stronger (deadlier?) round of treatments this week as last week’s scans showed cancer has spread to her lymph nodes.
Families with flu or less serious sickness – some with deaths to grieve.
Please, dear people, do NOT get a flu shot.
Kate & Abby are back in school. Daniel flies out later this week. Lots of opportunities and plans for each of them this new year.
Kayleb & Kara enjoying newlywed bliss hopefully somewhere warm and cozy.
Faithfulness in the little things. Awareness of what is eternal, and what is not.
Tim’s challenge to us for 2015: to be faithful in small things.
His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord. ~ from Matthew 25
Thankful... for safety and open roads in all our recent travels…. for Tim’s mom – her life of faithfulness … for the effort by one of her grandsons to create and present {with help} the perfect eulogy in a readers theater format. Sweet times and memories with family.
Creating... order from this particular mess today (?)
Going... to stay inside and at home again today, thank you very much.
Reading... finishing Deuteronomy (today perhaps), catching up with blogs, hoping to begin/continue with other good books begging my attention…
Looking forward to... de-cluttering, routines, a new cook book
In the kitchen...
Leftovers: beef roast, mashed potatoes, Madison Co chicken, pizza – and a multitude of Christmas goodies.
Menus planned: turkey/veg soup, pan-seared tilapia {Tim’s recipe, so I hope he’s willing to cook}, pizza {again?}, pancakes, taco rice casserole…
And plenty of vitamin-loaded spinach smoothies. nom nom.
In the learning rooms... there remains a pile of papers for me to check/grade. And history reading to finish - from December. Still looking for the right groove to get back into. Blah.
Around the house... new books and games. Nerf bullets and forts. Christmas décor minus the tree. And a large colony of dust bunnies.
The Mother Load... Monday I shopped groceries. Yesterday I baked and vac-ed. Today I shall conquer the desk. And maybe some more laundry too.
Noticing that... I love being at home.
Something fun to share... a good idea gone crazy.
Nine kiddos under the age of 7 in my extended local family. Four girls. Five boys.
I blame facebook and pinterest. And my idealistic self.
But he sure looks cute and happy, huh?
A favorite quote for today...
One of my favorite things... dark ---------
With a nod and many thanks to Kara for the Joe Joe’s – they were delicious!
{I spent waaay too much time last month – along with the Cowgirl – checking out and signing up for a Favorite Things Stocking Giveaway at 13 fun blogs – And we won one!}
A few plans for the rest of the week... airport, piano lessons/more groceries and shoe shopping, finding our way back to school routine
A peek into my world {December}...
puzzles, sleeping by the tree, big breakfast {with hand warmers for all}, table games, recording studio… and more.
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Giving credit where credit is due:
While I am not linking up with anyone, you could read more weekly news posts at other blogs by following any of these links:
- Peggy at the Simple Woman’s Daybook
- Julie for adapting this daybook version as her own ‘Grasshopper Days’ ~ Perhaps I could call it the GHV Daybook. :)
- You can also find a similar weekly meme in Happy Homemaker Monday at Sandra’s
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Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord,
that thou fulfil it. Colossians 4:17
