November 17, 2008

• The Simple Womans Daybook Monday 17 November 2008

   

  Outside my window….. It is snowing!!!!  All weekend the lake effect bands managed to stay just north and south of us but now they have shifted and they are over us.  I do have to say that it is making everything looks so clean and fresh after all the rain and subsequent mud that we had over the weekend.  (I say sound nice about snow only because my car is in the shop and I don’t have to drive in it)

  I am thinking…… about the sounds from the past that I “hear” in this house when I am alone here in the silence.  How, especially on days like this, with the snow falling silently outside, I hear the padding feet of my small children running to the windows to see the snow and exclaim about being able to make snow men and go sledding.  I’m remembering all the little nose and finger prints that I used to not wash off a certain window in our house because they were so precious to me.  How I wish those prints were still there.

  I am thankful for…….. a wonderful, loving, caring daughter who sets good example for all around her.  When her housemates had a dinner that was supposed to celebrate Thanksgiving yesterday it became a tense affair because one member couldn’t be generous to the others about inviting others to the dinner.  The it became polarized with the black kids at one table with the white at another.  My loving daughter went from one to another serving all and talking and visiting with all because she loves no matter who or what you are and didn’t care if those at the dinner were residents of the house or were invited by the residents.  She knows what the true meaning of Thanksgiving is.  God has truly blessed this world with her presence in it.

  From the kitchen……… lunch was leftover spaghetti from yesterday.  Supper will probably be beef stew with homemade bread. 

  I am wearing…….. warm tights, white tee shirt, denim jumper, green sweater

  I am creating……. Christmas gifts.  Mittens for the craft sale that we have every year at our church.

  I am going…….. nowhere!!!!!!!!! Until Doug gets home from work.  Then we have to take the Durango to be fixed and I have to take his car to a parnet meeting for first penance at church.

  I am reading……. Let Me Be a Woman by Elisabeth Elliot

  I am hoping…….. that the back specialist calls this week to let me know about the CT scan on my back and when I am on the OR schedule.  The waiting to know is killing me.  Everyday I think I change my mind a dozen times about having surgery at all.

  Around the house…….. it looks like a sweat-shop. There are sewing machines set up everywhere.  Matthew and I are making Christmas presents and Mary-Kate has left me a list of supplies that she needs for when she is home next so she can sew too.

  One of my favorite things……… the thought that my son who is stationed in KS will be home in one month!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I need to keep that thought in my mind…

  A few plans for the rest of the week…….the Durango (much as I enjoy the enforced stay at home I need to be able to get out), Matthew needs a flu shot, my second grade religion class, groceries, go get MK on Friday HOORAY!!!!!

  A picture thought that I am sharing with you…………

  

  This is Matthew and Mary-Kate rolling up wire beside our road on Friday evening.  Matthew is just wearing a tee shirt.  The high temp that day was 64.  It really was quite a nice day.  Even I was comfortable with a jacket on.

  

  This is looking down the road to the same spot where they rolled up the wire on Friday.  What a difference a few days makes.  The temp is 33 and there is a light breeze blowing which makes it feel like 25.  The snow has been falling for about 1 1/2 hours. 

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