A Gracefull Place

I’m a few days late…   but I found this and want to participate!

 

For Today, September 10, 2008

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Outside my window…The sun is peeking through the clouds, and it’s cool and breezy.  The beans in the fields around us are already drying up!

 

I am thinking… that I need to call a friend to tell her the claw-foot bathtub we have for sale is available if she wants it. 

 

I am thankful for…my wonderful husband, my children, and the freedoms I enjoy in America to train my OWN children, and to be able to homeschool them and keep them at home.

 

From the kitchen…I hear the clatter of things coming out of the refrigerator and questions like, "What’d we have last night?"  "Mommy, do you want what we had last night? There’s only enough for one person."  "NO more burritos–that’s the last package of tortillas!"  "Mommy, do you want the last of the watermelon?  But then there’s not enough for me!"

 

I am wearing…my "old" Easter jumper from two years ago, a pastel floral with coordinating striped pockets and ruffle, along with my cutwork polo shirt from Blair.

 

I am creating…This blog! LOL!   Seriously, I’m in a decluttering mood, so I guess I’m getting creative about where and how to organize all this STUFF!

 

I am going…to drop off a "stool sample" from some goats at the vet’s later this afternoon!

 

I am reading…more than I ever wanted to know about chicken pox!   Learning lots about vaccines, building immunity, frugal living and unschooling (if you go by my internet history for the past 24 hours!)   Bookwise I’m reading Holy In Christ by Andrew Murray, God, What’s Your Name?    by Kay Arthur (a study on the Names of God for kids), and just got Nature in Winter by Elizabeth P. Lawlor.  I saw it at Salamonie Reservoir’s Interpretive Center when we camped there last month and it looked like a good find for "winter nature studies".

 

I am hoping…that my other children either don’t get the chicken pox, or at least not as bad a case as the dire warnings I’ve read and heard!

 

I am hearing…not much.   Things got very quiet, because….

 

Around the house… the four youngest children went outside to eat lunch, the two oldest girls are upstairs moving into their new room (they finished their beautiful border yesterday!), the 16 yodd is eating lunch out here in the sunroom, the 15 yodd is packing up things from the room she shares with the 16 yodd as they prepare to move into another room so Daddy can redo their room.  The 11 yodd was eating lunch but has disappeared somewhere!

 

One of my favorite things…  ONE?  I have to pick just ONE?!    Well……the quiet, restfulness faith in God brings.  No matter the turmoil around me (super collider scientists trying to reinvent the Big Bang, politics, economy, chicken pox  ) I know WHO is in control and that HE will guide me in the perfect path for "me and my house"!

 

A few plans for the rest of the week… canning the pears, finding my kitchen bar AND the computer desk surface again,  and maybe start unearthing the sewing room.  Oh, and start reading either American History for Little Folks or Mary’s Meadow  to the younger set.

 

Here is a picture thought I am sharing…

 

                       Noah and Isaiah at the 2008 county fair–All-American Farm Boys!

 

 

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