Last Daybook of Summer!

FOR TODAY

Outside my window...
Sunny and hot, I think.  I haven't paid much attention to the outdoors this morning.

I am thinking...
...about the long to-do list in the corner of my computer screen.  There are 14 things on it that vary in importance.  It does NOT include all the last-minute stuff that needs to be done today before school starts tomorrow for Meg and Pip.  Having a minor freak-out here.  Obviously, the treatment is to blog and ignore it for a little while.  ;-)

I am thankful...
...for my birthday weekend.  A nice day Saturday (that included some special girl-time with just me and Meg) was followed by a lovely day with the rest of the family.  We went to visit them in Athens to hang out and see a movie, and just be together for a little while.  I love those big kids!

Meg's fun, formal manicure!

From the school table...
...Lots of syllabi and printed-out lesson plans for the week (which someone else planned, so I'm liking that!).  We are trying to figure out how to get everything in the backpacks!  The drawback to a hybrid school is that Meg has all her subjects on schooldays, so she has to carry all. her. books.  She has a locker, but she still has to tote them all in and out every day.  I'm starting to think that purchasing a 2nd set may be unavoidable.  :-(  Pip has 4 classes at most, but his books are bigger, so he has a problem, too.

In the kitchen...
...Last week I made up 7 weeks worth of menus and accompanying shopping lists.  I hope that makes everything a lot easier, but I'm going to have to get in the habit of deciding in the morning which meal we're having for dinner and get it started.  Case in point:  today.  It is 11 a.m., and I probably should have already taken something out to thaw.

I am wearing...
White shorts and navy tee.  The shirt will probably get tossed in the ragbag when I check off "Clean out Mom's closet" from the To-Do List.

What I’m doing with fiber...
...Still working on plying all the grey yarn from the sweater I unravelled.  I was trying it out with my new Turkish birthday spindle, but it's making the yarn thicker than my other spindle, so I may have to stick with the same one until I finish this job!

I am going...
...to buy more school supplies.  It never ends.

I am wondering...
How I'll get it all done.  But I know the answer already:  by the grace of God.  That's how it always happens.

I am reading...
In between books.  I want to start this Chesterton reading plan, but I'm supposed to be (re)reading The Hobbit for my book club, along with a companion book, whose name I can't recall.

I am hoping and praying...
...for the healing of Thomas Peters, the American Papist
...for a mother with cervical cancer
...for all of our priests

I am looking forward to...
...the feast of The Assumption

I am hearing on my ipod...
...Not much.  I'm spending most of my time at the computer doing stuff.  No, not just reading blogs and FB.  Actually working.

Around the house...
...Lots and lots of stacks that need to be picked up and dealt with.

One of my favorite things...
...A lack of stacks.

A few plans for the rest of the week...
...Unstack.  Restack.  Destack.

Here is picture thought I am sharing...

Love them.  So much.

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