A Simple Woman's Daybook~April 26, 2010

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So, For Today...Monday, April 26, 2010

Outside my window...It is 6:30 am and I am enjoying the early dawn of a new day, and new week. Morning are so beautiful and so full of hope for a new day. I feel that today!

I am thinking...I just tried on a new pair of jeans and they are so long! Hello, I am 5'8" and I have never had to shorten a pair of pants in my life...but this may be the first. Why are they making pants so long these days?

I am thankful for...music in my life. It is just so elevating and enjoyable.

From the learning room...As long as you haven't given up on something or someone you haven't failed. You just keep on keeping on and eventually what you hope for will be yours. The keys seems to be endurance and a lot of faith.

I am reading...Book 2 by Bodie Theone, "Prague Counterpoint." Wow, this series is fantastic!

From the kitchen...definitely time to restock the pantry and frig but I may not be able to until tomorrow. I love starting it with a great trip to the Farmer's Market and that happens tomorrow in our town.

I am wondering...how wonderful it will be when there are no more lunches to pack at 4:30 am.

I am wearing...I hope you are sitting down...I am actually dressed! Jeans and a bedazzled brown and pink tee. Socks and crocs...comfy stuff.

I am hearing...The Carpenters~Breaking All The Rules.

I am going...to recommit to having only the most healthy foods in the house. Removing the temptations really is a good trick!

Today if I could change one thing..not having to actually think about the one above. I want it to just be second nature.

I am quoting..."The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise." ~Alden Nowlan. I found this on my friend, Marie's blog and loved it! So I am quoting Marie quoting Alden Nowlan.

My spiritual thoughts include...the realization that goodness produces light...it comes from Christ who is the Light. Darkness comes from evil but it cannot over power The Light. No matter what if we stay within His Light we will be safe. Our choices control the light/dimmer switch in our lives.

Around the house...I am enjoying the post construction era so much. Loving the cottage more each day. It is fun to feel that feeling renewed after living in the same place for over 30 years. I am also enjoying that my spring cleaning is almost done! We're decluttered and clean and ready for the longer warmer days of spring and summer.

I am missing...One on one visits with our kids.

I am hoping....To get some travel plans squared away today.

I have been procrastinating...Going to DMV to find out why some car tags we have paid for have not arrived. They don't believe in answering phones there! That is one place that is so uninviting, don't you agree? I don't know anyone who says, "Yippee, I get to go to DMV today!"

One of my guilty pleasures...Reading blogs. Honestly I could do it all day long. Discipline...it required discipline. I don't even read magazines anymore, blogs are so much more wholesome and informative and bring to light the joy that people are feeling instead of working on all the same old things you see on every magazine cover. Blogs are about being happy with what you have instead of always trying to be something you're not. I love the positive spin that the blogs I read put on life. And I find them entertaining as well. Read this if you want a good laugh. This was written by our friend and home teacher, Travis.

One of my favorite things...shoes that do not hurt my feet. I wish I could find more variety!

A few plans for the rest of the week...2 meeting today (one fun one!), Farmer Market tomorrow and food prep, getting ready to plant some flowers so I need to get my pots all emptied and cleaned up. Love that, (the planting not the cleaning up!) Thursday night going to a provident living class on emergency preparedness at church, Friday night date night. We will be watching the 4th disc from a BBC Masterpiece Theatre series of Little Dorrit, by Dickens. Very intriguing and interesting. We love BBC! And we will be having popcorn for dinner as we always do on Friday night! Gees, maybe I'll throw in a few protein grams and some veggies to keep things in line with my new resolve. Sometime I'll show you Jim's popcorn bowl and you'll know why he like to call it dinner.

Here is a picture and a thought I am sharing with you~

This is our sweet Piperpoozala
I have no idea why I call her this but that is who she is!

This is the third time I have seen a photo of one of our grandkids and realized they have truly changed. Here is our oldest, Piper, and she has definitely passed into that no more little girl phase and is now a young woman. I ask you though, is this really fair at eleven? How is it they grow up so fast? She is on a Mommy/Daughter date with Jen and they are at a Fashion Expo and also went out for a nice dinner. Oh, we do love this pretty girl! She is a very precious, huggable one and good to the core!