November 14, 2011

• The Simple Womans Daybook 14 November 2011

   

  Outside my window…it is cloudy but relatively warm.  We spent the last week in the southland where temps were in the upper 60′s to mid 70′s.  While we were gone my daughter gleefully announced that we had gotten a couple of inches of snow.  I was very happy to miss that event!  Today it is 56 out with a light breeze blowing; a good day to catch up on laundry, paperwork, and settle back into the home routine.

  I am thinking…of all the people who have never had the privilege of experiencing a truly moving military ceremony.  The graduation that we attended last Wed. was not only patriotic but was full of tradition and significance.  I am afraid that there is a large portion of our population who are impoverished because they either scorn tradition, have no connection to it, or worst of all, have no sense of the importance of passing traditions on to the next generation.

  I am thankful for…the family that my father struggled and strove to build.  Tradition and faith are the bywords in our family.  Not only did I and all of siblings bring with us traditions from growing up but we have all built new ones in our own homes and have striven to pass those down to the next generation.  I have spent time in the homes of several of my siblings and the overriding feeling in all their homes is one of being home; home in the place that I grew up and in the family that I know and love.  There has never been a sense of strangeness.

  From the kitchen…I was thinking about putting on a pot of beef stew and coaxing Melissa into making a batch of her delicious biscuits.

  I am wearing…jeans and a brown tee

  I am creating…another group to carry the torch of family into the years to come and the continuing battle for salvation.

  I am going…nowhere today.  I would like to stay home today.

  I am reading….Robert Barron’s Catholicism.  The book is one that I highly recommend to both Catholics who wish to better understand their church and to non-Catholics to give them a true and accurate idea of what Catholics believe and where we come from.  This is one of those books I classify as one to be savored not just read.

  I am hoping because hope is the cornerstone of my faith after faith and charity.

  I am hearing…the 82nd Airborne Chorus singing Blue Moon on the CD player. 

  Around the house…the place was cleaned to a fair thee well while I was gone.  It fairly squeeks! Laundry is going, Layn is napping, Ian, Doug, and MK are at work and Matthew is outside cleaning out my car.  Melissa is in the other room doing Melissa stuff.  When I get done here I have some paperwork to finish up and then I intend to finish the quilt that is on the machine and then put another one on.

  One of my favorite things…laughter! Full out, unrestrained, side-splitting belly laughter.  The kind of laughter that is unselfconscious.  I got a satisfying earful on Friday night and it was so refreshing.

  A few plans for the rest of the week…back into the normal routine. 

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

  

  Heart rending, heart stopping rows of American flags in front of the traveling wall.  Each flag topped with a tag that bears the name of a loved on who has given all and gone to his reward.  Being there was an experience that defies description.  Looking at the photo gives me the same shivers.

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