Happy Homemaker Monday

 Hosted by Sandra ! 

 

♥♥ The Weather ♥♥ 

Monday - rain, 64/54

Tuesday - partly cloudy 73/50
Wednesday -cloudy, 69/48
Thursday -partly cloudy 70/47
Friday - partly cloudy, 71/51

♥♥ As I look outside my window ♥♥ 
It is wet and rather dark for 9:30 am.  Today is a pretty slow day for me.  Yes, I am still in pj’ s and just moving pretty slowly.  

 ♥♥ Right now I am ♥♥ 

I am working on this post , looking forward to my first cup of coffee!  My allergies and ringing ears are keeping me company!

♥♥ Thinking and pondering ♥♥ 

I am sorry that this post is pretty boring so far.  I am now trying to think of something interesting!  Hmmm,,, today I do plan to start decorating the home for Christmas in earnest!  I have removed all the autumnal items and actually have been checking online for some new decor to go along with our new colors.   I think I want to check out Kirkland this week for their Norfolk Pine garland and spikes. 

P.S.  

 I have ordered this garland  and the spikes from Kirklands and can pick it up this afternoon in a nearby town..  Hobby Lobby is there, as well. 

So pleased I was able to get it!

♥♥How am I feeling ♥♥ 

That for me, staying actively engaged in things around the house is my best frame of mind..  that sounded odd even as I wrote it, but just like digging in and trying to do a bang up job of Christmas decor, or planning a special holiday dinner for our best friends,  being very intentional about what to buy others for Christmas..  I already did that for the girls, I have spent probably a couple of hours going through a thrift books picking out specific books for each of our grands. Of course, I had to call their mom twice to go through my list because they read all the time.   And have so many of the classic books I was looking at, but since I was a n elementary teach I am well prepared to choose some wonderful award winning books that would suit each girl!  When I throw myself into a project it is for my best. Otherwise, when I have no plan,  I can just sit and vegetate which is not for my best!  

♥♥ On the breakfast plate ♥♥ 

    I finally got my coffee, and see how it got me going.   Lynn is so wonderful to have my coffee and fruited yogurt ready every morning!

♥♥ On the dinner plate ♥♥ 

We have some  frozen Buffalo chicken strips in the freezer.  I love to make us nice chef salads with sliced chicken on top.. very yummy!

 ♥♥ What I'm wearing ♥♥    

Uh, oh, still in my pjs. 

♥♥ On my reading pile ♥♥ 

 In my daily Bible Reading I will be starting  Isaiah  35 this week.  I, also, received my new Christmas  English Home. Magazine.  Lynn ordered me  the subscription for an early Christmas present . I love the Christmas issue.  Every page is a delight and I hope to read it all this week for that added inspiration!

♥♥ On my TV this week ♥♥ 

 

Creative Update:

Well, ,I am happy that the Hallmark Christmas movies are back. One is on now as I type. I do enjoy most of them. I prefer the older ones to the newer ones. I still love to check out vlogs. In fact it was a blogger who clued me in on those fabulous garlands at Kirklands. 

♥♥ Looking around the house ♥♥

 I see a blank slate just waiting for some Yuletide attention. One thing I really want to do today is reset the table and yes, in Christmassy style.  

♥♥ To Do List ♥♥ 

• Reset the dining room for the holidays
• Hopefully go to Kirklands tomorrow while we are out and about
• Regular doctor check up
• Marketing 
• Bring up the Christmas boxes and begin some experimenting (hee hee)
• Vacuum the living areas and dust
• Allergy shot and Bible Study
• The rest of my week is free so it seemed  like a great week to attend to Christmas!,

♥ ♥ From the camera ♥ ♥

I was checking my photos from a year ago and this one popped up.  They look so young. I cannot believe they have changed so much.   Of course, I lot  has changed since last year. They have travelled across Europe.. seen the world. And now instead of playing house, they are violin and piano students.  And I only get to visit with them a couple of times a year.  Hard for me to keep up!

♥ ♥ Devotional ♥ 

Likewise also the Spirit helpeth our infirmities; for we know not what to pray for as we ought; but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God (Romans 8:26-27).

This is the deep mystery of prayer. This is the delicate divine mechanism which words cannot interpret, and which theology cannot explain, but which the humblest believer knows even when he does not understand.

Oh, the burdens that we love to bear and cannot understand! Oh, the inarticulate out-reachings of our hearts for things we cannot comprehend! And yet we know they are an echo from the throne and a whisper from the heart of God. It is often a groan rather than a song, a burden rather than a buoyant wing. But it is a blessed burden, and it is a groan whose undertone is praise and unutterable joy. It is "a groaning which cannot be uttered." We could not ourselves express it always, and sometimes we do not understand any more than that God is praying in us, for something that needs His touch and that He understands.

And so we can just pour out the fullness of our heart, the burden of our spirit, the sorrow that crushes us, and know that He hears, He loves, He understands, He receives; and He separates from our prayer all that is imperfect, ignorant and wrong, and presents the rest, with the incense of the great High Priest, before the throne on high; and our prayer is heard, accepted and answered in His name.
--A. B.