Texas Woman's Daybook

Just for today...Monday, January 14

 

Outside my window...just saw a little sparrow on our bird feeder.  We finally moved the feeder around to the front porch because we weren't attracting birds in the back yard by the church's parking lot.

 

Hearing...Schumann's Cello Concerto as the kids work.  I love the time period in history we are about to enter.  So much in the world of music and art!

 

Pondering these words..."We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasure on earth and in eternity.  Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible.  It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again." 
~A.W. Tozer

 

Praying for...lots of people hurting and overwhelmed.  Friends flying back across the ocean from the Solomon Islands, another friend who just suffered a miscarriage, a Solomon family who have just lost a child, friends at church who are just spent, the list seems endless.  Looking for ways I can be a Hurt Healer.

 

A heart of thankfulness...for our 16th "proposal-versary" yesterday (complete with rocky road ice cream)

and a husband who still writes me love notes (it says "I heart J").

 

Reading..."Thomas Jefferson's Crème Brulee:  How a Founding Father and His Slave James Hemings Introduced French Cuisine to America"  by Thomas J. Craughwell.  History plus cooking?  Right up my alley!

 

From the kitchen...warm comfort food for a cold day.  Puffy apple omelet for breakfast,

 

 cream of broccoli soup for lunch, and veggie lasagna for an early supper before the kids go to choir practice
 

Creating...a little project with Sarah on the bulletin board.  Going to be the silhouette of a tree with Bible verses around it.  We'll add leaves and more verses as spring and Easter get closer.  Just an idea germinating right now.

 

In the learning rooms...Frederick Douglas, Simon Bolivar, Robert & Clara Schumann; working towards the President's Fitness Challenge with sit ups and the mile run; a little snow unit that I think will be fun for all of us

 

A few plans for the rest of the week...an eye appointment today for me this afternoon & choir rehearsal for the kids tonight, company Tuesday, blood work and shots on Wednesday, company Thursday, Daddy/Daughter banquet at church on Friday, and Sarah heads to a friend's birthday party on Saturday

 

A peek into my corner of the world...

We enjoyed some refreshing time with a family from church who joined us for lunch yesterday.  It was one of those afternoons when we all looked at the clock and said, "Oh!  It's already time to go back to church!" because we had been visiting so long.