Happy Homemaker Monday

  



Hosted by Sandra!

♥ ♥ Weather ♥♥
I am dreading this coming week.. will be hot, humid, and miserable!

Monday -cloudy, 92/71

Tuesday - cloudy, 91/ 69

Wednesday - cloudy, 90/70

Thursday -cloudy, 89/71

Friday -rain, 87/70

Saturday- rain, 87/69

♥♥ As I look outside my window ♥♥
The sky is quite hazy and    I  don't think I even want to venture out today.  Thank goodness I  have no where to go anyway!

♥♥ Right now I am ♥♥

I have  just finished my mid morning  snack, and  cup of coffee so I am  ambitious to  finish this post!    I am listening to Pandora,  the David Arkenstone station!  If you love  Lord of the Rings music you'll love this!!!

♥♥ Thinking and pondering ♥♥
I was so looking forward to last week with Amanda   and the girls ,  but it was over in a flash!    

 Our oldest  requested a tea party so we had a tea party breakfast!

                          Baa Baa loves to read to the girls!!!Why does time go by so fast when you are reveling in the  joy of life,   then every other day is  so mundane and   slow!.  Ok,  I know  that  life isn't really mundane.  I suppose I  am just complaining and  over exaggerating,  but I miss  them so much the other  49 weeks of the year.Not counting a week of vacation and  the other two  weeks  I hope to spend with family!  It is just hard to have your only family    living so far away!  Oh, I will   see them for a week before the year  is out, so I must  learn to be satisfied and find joy in  what  life has to offer  ...  I  am trying to find joy in the endeavors I am doing..    I am planning my food  in the effort of losing weight and I have lost  15 pounds since the first of June. I have finished my first sketchbook and am starting a couple of new ones...  a nature journal and a regular  sketchbook!  So  I have  very pleasing endeavors ahead of me, aside from keeping  house and home and  time with friends. Praise God,  recently my prayers sisters got together  again to pray.  We used to before covid and   it just sort of fell off the grid of our lives..  We are all older and  dealing with our own  infirmities  and  troubles,  but finally things are looking up for us all so   we plan to meet every week again to pray.  Our next time together will be  to celebrate my upcoming birthday...  We will be dining   out at my favorite  restaurant!!.  YAYA!

And I mustn't  leave out  our   very dear friends,  Gerri and David..  We are so glad  to attend church with them and    it is so much fun dining out together afterwards!  That is  a very special time of the week!!!

                This couple is a huge blessing to us!!!!

♥♥How am I feeling ♥♥ 

Except   for my  lower back pain that is a result of my fall last week.. I am doing  good.  Loosing  3 bags  of sugar off my  body helps.   Now only    another 3 bags,  then another,  then another..  even perhaps then another !!! 

♥♥ On the breakfast plate ♥

My  early,  easy breakfast  is  a serving of probiotic yogurt with fruit and a 1/8 cup of  crumbled walnuts.   with a  cup of coffee.  Then  mid morning   I  fix myself an egg and 1/2 English muffin.  A later lunch includes  a fruit  or veg salad.     

♥♥ On the dinner plate ♥♥

Tonight I am making vegetable stirfry with  a few  cashews  mixed in  with a    bit of  brown rice!  Watermelon for dessert!

♥♥ What I'm wearing ♥♥ 

Navy shorts, a plum colored tee,  and  Clark sandals

 ♥♥ On my reading pile ♥♥

Chapters from Joshua, Psalms, Isaiah,  Matthew.  

♥♥On my TV this week ♥♥ 

Youtube channels,  for example , Location, Location, Location,  Escape to the Country,   and The Food Network, and HGTV, This never changes  because  usually there is nothing on the  regular channels that interests me!!  I haver been   looking for new  YouTube channels  as  many of my faves are    not  operational this summer.   When I find a great one I'll share!!

♥♥ Looking around the house ♥♥

Things  are still looking good..  after  all the work we did getting ready for the kids.   Thankfully,,    only the laundry to do this week!!  We  went through  so much bird feed last week.    Unfortunately,  the  house wrens and yucky sparrows  took them over..they  over fed  so much the chickadees, bluebirds,  woodpeckers, cardinals, and thrushes   couldn't get their  ample turn. Hubs  is tired  of feeding the squirrels and   other  varmet types that frequent the area so no bird watching for me   for the next  while!  We need to replenish our  feed supplies!!   I guess it is  rather too hot this week to enjoy the Garden room anyway,  but we had so much fun in there last week!   I love our new garden room!!

                                                                                                                                                                                    

                     

Our daughter, Amanda,  enjoyed sitting out there  as we   reminisced  about  the good ole days

♥♥A Favorite Vlog ♥♥

 We  enjoyed  trying our hands at painting  peonies!  

 ♥♥ To Do List ♥ ♥

Do my exercises/ stretches/ and  recumbent  bike
Plan menus 
Go marketing
daily Bible reading
Prayer group meeting
Bible Study group
laundry

♥ ♥♥ From the  camera ♥ ♥

   My dear prayer pals  celebrating my birthday in 2018

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