(Click the photo to participate or see more!)FOR TODAY August 25, 2008
(written this morning...posted this afternoon)
Outside My Window...the chickadees are quickly getting seeds
from the feeder in anticipation of colder times.
I am thinking...about the flowers I am going to pick today to press.
I'm waiting for the sun to dry the petals.
I am thankful for...the warmer weather. The rain was becoming so depressing.
From the kitchen...I need to bake some snacks for after school.
I am wearing...blue sweatpants and an Old Navy t-shirt with a burn hole.
Both desperately need retired to the rag box.
I am creating...a Prayer Shawl for a friend battling cancer.
I knit slower than I had hoped I did.
I am going...take the Wee People outside for some fresh air.
I am reading...Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.
Actually, I haven't started it yet, but I did buy it.
It's a really nice leather book with seven of her novels.
I am hoping...the sun shines brightly all day.
It's been so many weeks of rain. I desperately need some clear skies
before we go into the long, dark winter.
I am hearing...silence. The older children are off to school and the little ones are sleeping.
Around the house...I have many chores such as laundry and dishes,
but I don't want to do any of them.
One of my favorite things...is sitting by the fire pit in the evenings
watching the kids play in the yard.
A Few Plans For The Rest Of The Week: I need to finish cleaning the bottom of the pool. Lots of sand has blown in. I also hope to finish some scrapbook pages.
With every football game I fall that much more behind.
Here is picture thought I am sharing...
3 comments:
Enjoyed reading about your day, Gayle. Love the firepit concept, and I actually have one that's never been used. It just doesn't get cool enough where I'm at to actually use it!
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Gayle, thanks so much for stopping by my place, but honey, don't you think for a minute I've got it all together or mostly. I get done what I get done by the sheer grace of God alone. I've had no energy for the last week and a half, and I literally had to pray get out of bed. God helped me. I have older children too, so since the Lord helped me train them well when they were younger and teach them to be unselfish and help others, they help me out and help out around the house.
I cook everyday, but I rarely do dishes because I have three healthy, older, capable children who can help. They eat, they can help. Plus, they need to learn to clean up behind themselves and do it well, so that they can keep their own homes clean. I did it all for them when they were younger and incapable, but gradually, as they got older, I taught them more and gave out appropriate responsibilities.
My youngest son has graduated high school, my second son attends the local high school, and I homeschool the girls, but they're old enough now that once I teach or review, they can do a lot on their own. We do projects and things of the sort closely together, but otherwise, they're quite independent. This wasn't the case when they were younger. Gradually God and they have made it easier on me, but you've got to set the family up for this kind of success early and keep doing it as they grow.
My husband is gracious too, so that makes things easier if I get sick (which is not that often, thank God) or need to go out and do things.
The laundry does itself for the most part. You just load it. That enables me to be off doing something else while it washes. I don't have to babysit it. Sometimes I do all of the laundry because I love doing it, but sometimes the girls help with it.
Some days, I don't get everything done I want to, but I pray that I've been as productive as I can be and that anything important that would adversely affect my family got done. Otherwise, I don't worry about it, and I'm not pressured by anyone about it. We all do our best, we all recognize that, and life goes on. I would rather have a heart that's more concerned about did I model Christ in my home and out that day. Did I take the opportunity to tell someone about Jesus? Have I asked for forgiveness when I should have? Stuff like that. Not that housekeeping isn't important, because it is. You have to keep the main thing the main thing and realize you can't do everything, and don't let the enemy guilt you or pressure you, no matter where or who it's coming from. Do what's effective but what works for you. And then surround yourself with like-minded people. People to the contrary bring you down.
You and I have similar distastes. I love what the rain does for the earth, but the dreariness and darkness bring me down. I have to bring light in somehow and think on happy things, stuff like that to keep myself happy. It can be a sort of depressor. It's rainy here today, gloomy, and dark. We're working diligently here this morning, inside the house. The brightness of my computer screen is helping me and my cheery girls.
I pray you have a beautiful, cheery, wonderful day today. Sorry I typed so much. Didn't realize I did until I was done. I hope I said something though, that helps. May the Lord bless you and all of your efforts very richly. We're all in this together sister.
Hi, Gayle. Thank you for your kind words on my blog.
I don't want to do my chores, either. I need to do a lot better in that area. I'm hoping that I'll get into a good routine once our homeschooling year starts next week.
It must be very nice to enjoy the fire pit. It sounds like it's very relaxing.
~Susan
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