Outside my window...
It's rainy and chilly after a gloriously warm and sunny Sunday. I wish it were beautiful again, but I'll keep my complaints to myself since others still have frigid temperatures, snow, and sleet.
I am thinking...
About my weekend and how I failed to finish my 7 posts in 7 days. I'll count it a success, anyway, since I did post 5 days in a row. I was up at 5 a.m. and out of the house by 5:40 on Saturday for a trip to Chattanooga for AHG training. Exhausted when I got back! And Sunday was... Sunday. I rarely feel like blogging on my day off. I try to stay away from the computer as much as possible, then.
I am thankful...
My brother-in-law is home from Afghanistan. We've been praying for him since early October, and I'm relieved that he is home safely.
From the school table...
My high schooler is in his room re-reading history books and studying for tomorrow's mid-term. My 6th grader is in a puddle on the floor because she doesn't like narrating stories. So, I'm blogging.
In the kitchen...
A new batch of kombucha today, and no plans for dinner yet.
I am wearing...
A long skirt, because the jeans are all dirty and it's too cold and damp for capris. I'm considering taking the Skirt Challenge and wearing skirts all through Lent. What do you think?
What I’m doing with fiber...
I "finished" my Drop in the Ocean, but it still needs a few ends woven in and blocking. I'm ready to start the 3rd color in my Color Affection, so I really feel like I'm making a lot of progress on that one. It's time to start thinking about summer knitting!
I am going...
nowhere special this week---just normal errands and schools.
I am reading...I am hearing on my ipod...
I am hoping and praying...
Oh my, the list grows ever longer...
- Elizabeth DeHority
- Gus
- Natalie - who has been in the hospital since 2/20, and is having surgery today.
- All of our priests
- an end to aborthion
I am looking forward to...
Ash Wednesday being over. ;-) It's always a challenge to be hungry and busy. Getting to Mass on time and feeding everyone dinner at some point is going to be hard. I'm supposed to sing in the choir, but that might not happen if I can barely get there in time. I guess if God wants me in the choir, He'll get me there!
Around the house...
It's quiet. Business as usual.
One of my favorite things...
Finding a book that's so gripping that I can't put it down. I haven't had one of those in a while. You know, you spend all your spare minutes reading...while waiting for the water to boil in the kitchen...wherever you find spare moment. Do you know of any like that?
A few plans for the rest of the week...
Finish up the Lenten prep! It's Tuesday now...I started this Monday, and I finally got the Christmas wreath off the door and put up the Lenten one!
Here is picture thought I am sharing...
Hosted by The Simple Woman's Daybook
I started wearing skirts almost two years ago because of the nerve condition in my leg. I can't handle the feel of the loose pant leg rubbing on my skin. The thing about switching to skirts is that you have to have enough to wear every day in order to do it. I don't know that I would try it for 40 days unless I had enough skirts. It's not a problem in the summer, it's easy to sew up four or five summer skirts. But in winter in Ohio...I wear leggings or tights under my skirt and it has to be a heavy skirt or I'll freeze.
ReplyDeleteI am glad I switched. I feel skirts are definitely more modest IF that is what you want, because we all know skirts can definitely be immodest if that is your goal as well. KWIM?
Happy Ash Wednesday -- it always feels like that jolt you get when the roller coaster takes off from the platform...and up the hill we go, slowly, slowly. Kind of like the first big contraction in early labor. (Oh such positive thoughts!)
;-)
I prefer skirts, but I don't have enough! Well, maybe I do... I just wasn't sure and being pregnant I was afraid I would be challenging myself too much and my goal should be more comfort... but then again I have some maxi skirts that are reallllly comfortable, lol.
ReplyDeleteHave you ever read Sarah Addison Allen? She writes magical realism and they are hard to put down, at least for me!
I haven't read SAA. I looked on Overdrive and she's only available in text format, not audio, so I'd have to get a real book. ;-)
Delete