Happy Homemaker Monday

Hosted by Sandra!

Good morning!  I slept in today.  This is the week I have been dreading  for a couple of months. I was supposed to have my colonoscopy in November and I was all set for it, then the appointment got moved to this Wednesday! So now I just want to get it behind me,. I don’t dread the procedure, but it is tomorrow…the dreaded prep! On a lovely note, though, this is yet another spring- like week. I have noticed that the forsythia is budding so I need to cut some to bring in and push open.

The Weather:::

 

Monday - Partly cloudy, 45/31

Tuesday - sunny, 52/34

Wednesday -  rain, 40/37

Thursday - Partly cloudy, 43/30

Friday - cloudy, 41/29

As I look outside my window:::

I am enjoying watching the bird feeder   out the window beside me.  So far this morning I have seen sirens,  a sparrow or two,  chickadees and  a lovely  male cardinal.  He was huge!  Oh, and the pesky squirrel keeps leaping   from the sunroom roof down onto the feeder scaring the birds off  for a time.  Lynn    gets pretty  grisly when  he sees  the squirrels because make such a mess of it all! We have tried everything to  keep them off.... bought all the contraptions a various feeders and  used the grease  and baby oil, the slick do hicky on the pole, the  squirrel free feeders.  Nothing helps!  

Right now I am::: 
Indulging myself enjoying watching one of my favorite YouTube programs, the British real estate show, Location,  Location, Location with Kirstie and Phil whom I absolutely love. Let me know in the comment if you enjoy Kirstie and Phil. I think  they are so wonderful because they have been paired on various shows all on YouTube from their young adult to middle age.  This program I am watching they are young.  

 

Thinking and pondering:::

I must be careful with me time.. I have invited  several friends over  mid February for a valentine tea  and I  have  grand ideas for it, but  they do require planning, shopping and, of course,  preparation.  So once this    little event is over  this week, I must hup to, and start getting things checked off my list!

On my bedside table:::

That has always been  a problem  well  since   I started having  all these  dreaded  health complications.. I do take  quite a bit of medication,,   but it isn't so much the meds as  it is the supplements... vitamin 2x daily  for my eyes,  vitamin 2 x daily  for my arthritis, 

pain relievers, etc.. I keep  two boxes on the table  one for  meds,  one for   supplements...  tissues,  eye drops,  2 kinds, my watch,  sometimes my ear rings,  my glass of water,   it is all usually  a flurry of  stuff. For me it is almost impossible to keep it not all contained.It doesn't work to  keep  things in the  drawer...  too much trouble to dig through for the evening  doses  then the morning doses.  Such a bother!

 

On my tv today::

I have already   told you  how much I enjoy Youtube.  much more than a regular tv. So many of my regular bloggers haven’t resumed   programming  after the holidays  so I have discovered a few new ones!

 

Listening to:::
Now I am in the kitchen at the  main computer and  Lynn has the radio   talk shows  playing,  I am trying to ignore them as much as possible!

 

 On the lunch plate:::

 I am so pleased to  remember that I have half a  delicious  cheese burger  left over in the fridge,  so that and a salad  will  suffice for me.

On the dinner::

Since I am  trying not to eat too much today,  a  can of  Progresso  vegetable soup   and a few crackers will sustain me.  I may indulge in a small  dish of ice cream for  dessert!

On my reading pile:::

Lately, I have    not been reading so much  but I am trying to keep up with my  daily bible reading.  I am a day behind  so  I will  do that as s soon as  I finish this post!

On my to do list:::

• Enjoy my day today
• I am thinking I may go to the start up  of a ladies Bible study  at church in the morning.  I hope I feel up to it
• Prep  for  you know what
• early morning  procedure  and probably sleep rest of the day. I doubt I get much sleep tomorrow night
• Hope to go shopping for some specialty items for my tea
• Dine out  with our special  friends

 

Sketchbook project  and My simple pleasure::: 

These two definitely go together, In my  free time I love to just sketch in my book. I watch the YouTube channel  Sketchbook Skool  which  teaches how to  negotiate your  book.  I have to sketch daily  and  so I am learning  to sketch  everything.  the things on the wall,   my lunch p late,  the  items on the table beside me,  the birds at the feeder.. It is  fun,  freeing and  just makes me feel great!

 

  Looking around the house:::  Eck,  it's ok!

 

From the camera:::

Devotional or prayer:::

 I am copying this from the Gospel Coalition    post I received today and it is  a real  thought provocative  devotional!

"One of the most striking evidences of sinful human nature lies in the universal propensity for downward drift. In other words, it takes thought, resolve, energy, and effort to bring about reform. In the grace of God, sometimes human beings display such virtues. But where such virtues are absent, the drift is invariably toward compromise, comfort, indiscipline, sliding disobedience, and decay that advances, sometimes at a crawl and sometimes at a gallop, across generations.

People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated."

  I believe this article   means   that  to be holy and godly, it takes   thought,  resolve, energy, and effort...  as    written above.   Let us be  very mindful if we begin to drift!!!