January 18, 2010

• The Simple Womans Daybook 18 January 2010

   

  Outside my window……it is dark.  I haven’t a clue about the weather but it had better cooperate with my NEED for a long walk today.  That’s need with all caps.  Yesterday was my birthday and I indulged in all kinds of ways and today I pay. 

  I am thinking……there is nothing like the love of family.  I don’t think that I would have chosen any of then for myself but I am without doubt thankful that God chose them for me. 

  I am thankful for……..big baggy tee shirts and long johns, fluffy pillows, old worn quilts to wrap up in, the ticking of the clock, and Christmas tree lights in January.

  I am wearing……..jammies.  It’s not yet 5 AM what do you expect.  I may be up early but that doesn’t mean that I am alive and kicking.  There’s time for that later.

  I am going…….nowhere today.  It’s Monday after all.  For anyone who knows me at all it means that the house needs to be recovered from the weekend, the laundry needs to be reduced to a manageable entity, and a new week of scholastic endeavor has begun.  I also got my big paper back yesterday and I need to rewrite it and resubmit it.  The grade was awful!!!!!!!

  I am currently reading……..textbooks folks, textbooks.  I am trying to expand my horizons and fill my mind with such knowledge that will round out my personality.

  I am hoping……..the weather cooperates with all our plans for the next couple of days.  MK has to return to school either tonight or tomorrow morning.  I don’t want her to go back.  It has been a joy and a comfort to have my daughter with me all these weeks since Christmas.  I think that is my favorite gift.

  From the kitchen……..leftover fried chicken and fixins from yesterday to satisfy this crowd.  Thank goodness that the cakes are all gone!!!!!!

  Around the house……all is silent as the house seems to wait in anticipation for the rest of the family to get up.  I hear the ticking of the clock, the tapping of my computer keys, and the distant hum of the pump in the basement.  Even the dogs aren’t stirring yet. 

  A few plans for the rest of the week……..the usual round of classes, studying, holy hours, get MK back to school, and keep this place running smoothly without her.  I don’t know how I shall manage without MK to keep me going.  I think that Melissa will miss her too.  They have become fast friends.  Mary-Kate taught Mellissa how to knit and they sit so prettily in the livingroom chatting quietly and knitting whatever it is they are making.  It is truly a good thing for both of them.  One needs the healing of love and the other desires a sister.

  One of my favorite things…….snoring dogs, humming appliances, warm fires, singing kettles, and softly murmurring households.

  Here is a picture thought that I am sharing with you…….

  

  I downloaded the proof of the portrait that my soldiers and sailor had taken for me for Christmas.  The big guy has a word across his face but he still looks handsome.  Just looking at that picture floods my heart with pride and stings my eyes with tears.  They are some damn fine young men.

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