Happy Homemaker Monday

 

Hosted by Sandra ! 

 

♥♥ The Weather ♥♥ 

Monday - sunny, 72/47

Tuesday - partly cloudy 73/53
Wednesday -partly cloudy, 70,52
Thursday -partly cloudy 70/47
Friday - partly cloudy, 66/47

♥♥ As I look outside my window ♥♥ 
The sun is shining brightly, but it is  quite frosty!!!!

 ♥♥ Right now I am ♥♥ 

So very happy I have just returned from my yearly mammo. And certainly pray that will be that until  next year!

♥♥ Thinking and pondering ♥♥ 

I have decided I love Christmas so  much that I am  going to start decorating the first of November. I told Hubs today and he was fine with it.  So it’s a go!

♥♥How am I feeling ♥♥ 

 I am actually doing pretty well…I have had mobility issues this whole year.  I think my illness I had a year ago and the 5 procedures in hospital took it out of me.   I did therapy to prepare for the Scottish trip and it helped ,but I still limited myself to the absolute must dos.

 But I mentioned last week making myself get up and go when new opportunities popped up to get to enjoy,  that pushing myself helped me quite a bit.  So now I get up stiff and  with very weak back, but I push through  and stay on my feet and suddenly I am feeling so great I find myself upstairs cleaning out closets or sorting through drawers and purging so much stuff we have squirreled away over the years.  Praise God!  It is such a blessing!

♥♥ On the breakfast plate ♥♥ 

   We stopped at our favorite breakfast place following the exam.  So I had  a pumpkin spice waffle, bacon  and coffee.It was fabulous and I shared half of it with Hubs.   

♥♥ On the dinner plate ♥♥ 

Chinese chicken stir fry and rice

 ♥♥ What I'm wearing ♥♥    

Blue Jean jeggings, a blue print tunic, and a navy cable knit  zip up sweater. 

♥♥ On my reading pile ♥♥ 
 Jen Wilken’s books, In His Image, and  Women of the Word

 We are into the book of Isaiah now on our daily Bible reading. I am reading chapters 9-15  today.

♥♥ On my TV this week ♥♥ 

As usual, many YouTube videos, we discovered a new cooking network that shows cooking from Ireland, Italy, and France. I really love watching those shows. I also, really love to get up early to watch Fox and Friends at 7-9 am.  In the evenings Lynn and I enjoy watching Pastor Allen Jackson on YouTube .His church is so huge and growing it seems all the time he does a sermon at least every other day.  We find his sermons so wonderful.  Very pertinent to our times. 

Creative Update:

This morning I discovered a new YouTube which may interest you as it did me.  It is called Sketchbook Skool.  The idea is to carry a sketchbook with you and just sketch away everything you see very much like an art journal,  I watched my first one this morning before church and I was hooked. I mean you do not have to be an artist, but over time your sketching becomes so precious to you and you can see great improvement from day to day. If  you are the least bit interested you ought to just watch it.  

https://youtu.be/fR07wJJIBwI

There is a whole series ..  I bought a sketchbook to take with me to Scotland. I used it like a daily journal. I drew and used colored pencils to color. Something I saw each day and wrote a bit about each day. I LOVED it!  And I love having my sketchbook to look at.   A good sketchbook at 5 Below is 5 bucks. And so very worth it!

♥♥ Looking around the house ♥♥ 

Just a bit of  straightening up and  a good dusting..    and  we are good for  stop  ins!

♥♥ To Do List ♥♥ 

• Mammo
• Breakfast out
• finish this post
• laundry  whites, darks,  and  linens
• put  laundry away in   fresh drawers
• put all the  autumn decor  away and bring up the Christmas  tubs
• start decorating  the living and dining room
• Allergy shot
• Bible Study
• Prayer group
•  IFA

♥ ♥ From the camera ♥ ♥

Bad news, Hubs took this photo Saturday  .. a 4 foot black snake  right by our house!!!  It crawled  into the drain pipe by the  gutter.. Lynn thinks it's cool..  BAHHHHHH!

                                       

  Good news,  our youngest  is taking violin and is loving it..  Her mother took   from age 4 through college..  and now plays at  their  historic church in Boston.   I am praying  Viv will  stick with it, too!!!

♥ ♥ Devotional ♥ ♥

The surest guarantee you’ll ever receive

• By: Dr. Jack Graham
• October 24, 2022

In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.

— Ephesians 1:13-14

It’s funny how much people love guarantees today, isn’t it? If you buy an appliance, an automobile, or make an investment, you want a certain guarantee that you’re going to get what you expect. That’s because it’s in our nature to minimize our risk. 

Well, in the greatest investment of all time – the investment of your life – you have a guarantee as well! God has given those who are in Christ Jesus a permanent pledge to ensure they are His forever… a guarantee that He will fulfill His promise of salvation. And that guarantee is the Holy Spirit.

Now, many today think of the Holy Spirit as an impersonal force rather than the personal member of the Trinity He really is. And when He comes into your life, the Spirit imparts to you the fullness of our personal God who loves you deeply and seals you for the day of redemption.

God loves you so much that He sent His Spirit to live in you and guarantee your position in Christ. So as you live your life, remember that through your faith in Christ, you have access to God’s full resources in the Holy Spirit and a permanent guarantee of your eternal inheritance!

REMEMBER, IN CHRIST GOD HAS GIVEN YOU HIS HOLY SPIRIT AS A GUARANTEE OF YOUR ETERNAL INHERITANCE