November 30, 2009

• The Simple Womans Daybook Monday 1 December 2009

   

  Outside my window……..it is a wet and rainy day.  Sort of appropriate for the day after you get home from a fun week spent with family.  A day meant to keep you inside and at the task of unpacking, doing laundry and cleaning house.

  I am thinking…….about all of the family members that I met in the past week.  Some I have never met and others I am getting to know again.  How people change and the adjustment that I have to make in my mind for who they are now.

  I am thankful for……..the family that I have been with for the last week and more so for the family that I have come home to.  There truly is no place like home.

  I am wearing……jeans and a light green long sleeved tee shirt that my neice Jenn gave me this past week.

  I am going…….to stay home all day today.  Not so much because there is a lot to do but more because there is a certain feeling of contentment in being here in my home.  I have absolutely no desire to leave this place.

  I am reading………Heaven’s Song by Christopher West  Happily it was waiting for me when I got home.

  From the schoolroom…….Matthew and I will be back in the swing of things this week.  We have only two weeks left in this semester and I’d like to have it over before Christmas. 

  From the kitchen………that’s a good question.  It has been a week since I did any kind of cooking.  Maybe I have forgotten how.  Perhaps a pot of soup to go with a nice loaf of bread.  Sounds good on this damp and rainy day.

  Around the house…….my wonderful husband trimmed up the kitchen arches and sealed them up nice and tight.  Perhaps I can talk him into painting them too.  Laundry is going and the dusting is done.  I’m putting off the floors as long as I can.

  One of my favorite things……..the start of this holy and glorious season of Advent.  I am looking forward to it especially this year.  Can’t exactly explain why but it is deeply in my heart and I feel a profound need to delve into the meaning of the incarnation more this year than ever before.

  A few plans for the rest of the week……back into the swing of my “normal” routine.  Holy hours, mass, religion classes and teaching Matthew.  Perhaps we will begin the season off with an evening spent watching my favorite movie, A Christmas Carol.

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

  

  My dad on Thanksgiving day.  This is how I want to remember him always, standing on the lawn of the church hall enjoying his grandchildren.  The love that was in his eyes was so visible and profound you could reach out and touch it. 

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