Summer Daybook

FOR TODAY
Sometimes I think about that phrase "for today" as I begin the Daybook, and I wonder what it means.  Today (ha!) it suddenly strikes me that I'm supposed to be grateful for all these little things that make up my day, because Today is all I have.  Yesterday, and all those other yesterdays are over, and I can't bring them back.  If I have regrets, all I can do is let them inform my behavior for today, so that I don't make the same mistakes again.  Tomorrow isn't here, so I shouldn't waste the beautiful gifts and opportunities of today wondering how I'll get it all done.


Outside my window...
It's a gorgeous morning, and I took the dog on a longer walk than usual, taking most of the cul-de-sacs and turns in the neighborhood.  In fact, I passed another couple with their dog at least 3 times going the opposite direction.  I love seeing them together.  They're the parents of my boys' good friends, and the 2 of them have such animated conversations on their walks.

I am thinking...
Lots of deep thoughts these days.  About Life.  My life.  Am I doing what I'm supposed to be doing?  Hello...Mid-Life-Crisis, anyone?  The funny thing is...when DH and I were doing our Catholicism study group yesterday...this one...



...one of the ladies in our group said that she's still waiting for God to tell her (very clearly, because she's dense like that [her words, not mine]) what she's supposed to do with her life.  Well, she is about 85 years old, and one of the most beautiful, prayerful, loving, hardworking women I know, and if she hasn't figured it out at her age, then I don't know how I'm supposed to!

I am thankful...
For so many things, especially when I look around at the hard battles others are fighting.

From the learning rooms...
Summer mode.  Reading and math before swim team, ideally.  But since the Pipster is planning to be a Team Captain and going to all the practices, he won't get in his work before swim team.  And I'll bet he'll be tired afterward.  Hmmmm.  That makes me nervous as he's pretty far behind in his textbook.

In the kitchen...
I need to work on easy, summer menus, and I got an app for that! It's Menu Planner.  It's a little heavy on the preliminary work because you have to enter your recipes, unless you want to download recipes from the sites that it works with.  I'm cheating a bit and just entering the ingredients, not the instructions because I can go to the book for that, but then you can choose the dates, select your meals, and it comes up with the shopping list for the meals within the chosen date-range.  I'm looking forward to sitting down this week and entering more recipes, and seeing if it also works on my phone!

I am wearing...
Workout clothes.  Did my 45 min. walk and lots of weights in the basement.  Pew.

I am knitting...
Not as much as I should be!  I'll show you next week.  My hard deadline for this project is Saturday for blocking.  Now, if I could just stay off Twitter.

I am going...
to go crazy with the annual, summer car-juggling.  Not really, but it does get a little hairy sometimes between my schedule and the kids'.   Short meeting tonight for AHG, BSA Court of Honor tomorrow, last choir rehearsal Wednesday, AHG Court of Honor Thursday...Chiropractor, picking up after school every day since Tom still has a week left, and the usual errands.  Well, one day at a time, right?  Somehow, it all gets done if it's meant to happen.


I am reading...
Rifles for Watie---I like this version of the Civil War that I've never heard about...the fighting in Missouri and Kansas.
The Catholics Next Door---on my Kindle while I knit.
The Truth About St. Therese took a backseat to Rifles.  Back to that this week.

I am hoping and praying for...
::A little boy with brain cancer who was diagnosed stage 4 when he was 2.  He is now 4, and it looks like they're making one last effort to keep him with them as long as possible.
::The Mouro family, and their little Truman.
::Our parish and our pastor.  And all our priests.  Some need conversion and the strength to teach the truth, and the faithful ones need strength to teach the truth in the face of resistant parishioners, and they all need our prayers to be faithful to their vows.
::My sweet friends who are both recovering from major surgery.
::For a beautiful young man with a drug problem.
::Elizabeth DeHority
::Summer jobs for my 2 boys!  Pete has a job interview today, so a little Hail Mary would be nice!

I am looking forward to...
Just today.

I am hearing on my ipod...
Waiting anxiously for time in the car with Meg and Pip to listen to the SQPN podcast about the Season Finale of Once Upon a Time.  It was an epic episode and we want to hear what they say!
 
Around the house...
Summer projects starting next week.  Katie has a list that she's working on and I think I might end up helping with those.

One of my favorite things...
Quiet afternoons when I don't have to be anywhere and I can just knit and read, or knit and pray, or knit and watch a movie.  Or all three combos.  That might be my summer mornings, at least until swim team ends in July, if I get away from the computer!

A few plans for the rest of the week...
Oops, told you those in the I Am Going section!
 
Here is picture for thought I am sharing...

Because there are hardly ever any good pictures of me, and because neither my children (the official photographers at my dad's 80th b-day party), nor anyone else with a camera, took any of me while we were there, my dad asked me to get a picture with Pip (he was neglected, too) for his photobook.  We got dressed up again, and Meg took some pics for us.

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