Daybook :: three day version

Daybook...which was started on Sunday night and now posted after midnight Tuesday morning

FOR TODAY  {November 8, 2010}
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Outside my window...There was a real nip in the air this weekend.  Turning on the heat was a temptation, but I resisted.

I am thinking about strategies for the home and school to co-exist in a better way.  about holiday preparations.  about minimalism.  about too much.

I am thankful for a hammock of supportive, loving friends and for the lessons the Lord keeps giving me in humility.

From the learning rooms...It has been such a challenge.  The work is good when we are doing it, but there are so very many distractions, so many little fires to put out.  We carry on as long as God wills it.

From the kitchen...nothing really to write about here. 

I am wearing...denim (maternity) skirt and a long sleeved shirt

I am creating...some pretty burp cloths with a toy tie-on for Juju.  Also must get some autumn dresses made for the girls...they are still wearing Easter dresses to Mass, for heaven's sake!

I am going...to the cemetery for Veteran's Day.  And to a Mommy & Me tea with my Headgirl.

I am reading...Still reading Farmer Boy to the younger set.  Also started in on The Phantom Tollbooth with the whole gang...what a hoot! A dear friend lent me They Have Uncrowned Him and asked me to read it.  A bit heavy, but I am obliging;  for balance, I am reading the entertaining and inspiring Raising Catholic Children by Mary Ann Kuharski.

I am hoping...for some answers to prayers.  Clear answers.  And a surge of grace.

I am hearing...just the hum of the computers.  And, soon, not even that.  Silence.  Blessed silence.

Around the house just really trying to purge, sort, clean and then rework some routines.  That's all.  I took a basket of children's winter clothes to the resale shop today;  they said they would look at it, but it almost the "end of the season".  Huh?  Well, in about six weeks they'll be marking that stuff down to make space for the warm season merchandise.  I haven't even turned my heat on yet!!

One of my favorite things...snuggling up with a warm, sleeping, pyjamaed baby under the down quilt on a cold morning.

A few plans for the rest of the week: Start narrowing down Christmas gift giving, ordering gifts and supplies for making. Knock on the doors of some other resale shops. 

Here is picture for thought I am sharing...

I am not on the computer that has my photos, so instead I will share one of The Prof's photos from his recent trip to Guadalajara, Mexico.