FOR JANUARY 24, 2014
Outside my window...
It is gray and windy...snow is whipping across the fields.
I am thinking...
How good it feels to be sitting here blogging. I write so many posts in my head, and so few on this blog! :)
I am thankful...
For protection from the elements in this very cold stretch. Our wood furnace is working as hard as it can to keep our house heated in the low to mid 60s!
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| Calvin and Easton deposited all this wood thru the window (shown), and we're burning it very quickly! |
In the kitchen...
An enormous pot of black beans, waiting for me to bag them up and freeze them. My two crockpots have been given a work-out this week - beans & rice, beef stroganoff, soup, lasagne - oh, what would I do without my beloved slow cookers?!
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| In case you needed help visualizing my 16 quart pot nearly filled with beans! |
In the school room...
Comets & meteors, all things fractions, reading a biography of John Adams, listening to Scott Joplin (King of Ragtime), studying Van Gogh, and Calvin and Abigail sculpting clay into fairy tale creatures they are writing about.
I am creating...
Me? Not much. But Easton? He is the creative mind around here and recently he's been on a kick with all the different creative sets he can make to decorate his bedroom. Here's the one he put together this afternoon:
I am going...
Possibly to Calvin's first Upward basketball game tomorrow...if it's not cancelled from the expected snow and wind.
I am wondering...
How I could have hurt my back by simply bending over a drawer to get Emmery's crayons out for her?
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| Emmery sees her big siblings sitting on the couch drawing a lot (they produce all sorts of master pieces while I'm reading aloud to them!) so now she likes to have her own drawing time on the couch too! |
I am reading...
Sparkly Green Earrings which is making me laugh out loud. Eat.Move.Sleep which is about exactly those three things! Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (to the kids.) And Praying God's Word by Beth Moore.
I am looking forward to...
an abundance of fresh vegetables from our garden. Doesn't that sound good right about now?
I am learning...
about Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) because it may just be present in our family.
Around the house...
Emmery is bouncing in her johnny jump up (yes, i know it's for babies, and she still LOVES it!), Abigail is writing in her journal, and the boys are playing a duet on the piano.
I am remembering...
hot weather and ice cream running down faces:
A favorite quote for today...
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One of my favorite things...
The other day when Emmery only had a quick moment with Dan before saying goodbye and she said carefully and deliberately, with a pause between each sentence for emphasis,
"Daddy, please don't leave.
Stay with me.
Don't go anywhere!"
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