I had planned to update my blog with a weekly daybook but it just didn't happen that way. So, here goes, one month later...
Outside my window...the tree is gently waving in the wind - it's going to be a cool, mild day (which wouldn't mean a whole lot except this time last week, it was forecast to be 86 degrees and we had no air conditioning).
I am thinking...how devastatingly handsome my husband is going to look in his dress blue uniform today when they have a photo-taking session at work.
I am thankful for...friends, family and all the blessings the good Lord has bestowed upon us.
From the kitchen...there will be Blueberry Pound Cake later.
I am wearing...my nightshirt and flip-flops - after all, it is just past 7:00am!
I am creating...a scrapbook corner in the basement and it's almost finished.
I am going...to plan a fabulous vacation for when my friend Janet comes from England. I know she's not coming until 2010 but I LOVE to plan and this is a big one - Niagara Falls, Gettysburg, Lancaster and Philadelphia. Last year, she came for two weeks and said she didn't want to lie around by the pool so I took her at her word! We visited five Newport Mansions, Mystic Seaport in Connecticut, Plimoth Plantation, the Mayflower II at Plymouth, Boston, Hyannis on Cape Cod, Harvard, and took a Rail 'n Sail trip of Narragansett Bay. We also shopped at Providence Place Mall, sampled the finest of New England's cuisine (still searching for the perfect lobster roll), and found time to drink endless cups of tea!
I am reading...Betrayal at Cross Creek , (an American Girl History Mystery) as I continue in my quest to slot all of our historical fiction books into their correct era and Tears of the Moon, sure and don't I love the Irish lilt that's sprinkled across the pages; it's lost I am in the sheer joy of it!
I am hoping...that I will be successful in getting tickets to Sarah Brightman's upcoming concert in Boston. Tickets go on sale today at 9:00am and my fingers will be poised over the Enter key at 8:59:59!
I am hearing...only the ticking of the clock this morning.
Around the house...there are still things to do but there were some tick marks placed on the to-do list this weekend. Vic connected the automatic pump to the dehumidifier, connected both air conditioners, fixed the curtain rods that smacked me in the head every morning for the last week as I pulled the curtains aside, and glued the leg back onto Sophia's collectible horse!
One of my favorite things...is to let my fingers fly across the keyboard as I do my scrapbook journaling. I am almost finished with 1995 (no, I am not 13 years behind! 1994 and 1999-2005 are done; I only have a few major trips in that time frame still to do). You see, they say you should start scrapbooking in the present and get caught up (right, like that's EVER going to happen!) and then go back as you have time to do prior years. I started in 1999 and worked my way quite diligently (ok, over the next eight years) toward the present. I got behind when we moved from Virginia to Rhode Island but I'm working on it. At least all the pictures are printed and all the memorabilia is sorted in boxes by year. I figured I'd better start on catching up those early years before I forget who was who and what was what in the pictures!
A Few Plans for the Rest of the Week...to meet with the window man today to get an estimate for a broken seal in a huge picture window, to take Sophia to Greenlock Therapeutic Riding Center for her volunteer job (and fill up with cheaper gas in Massachusetts while I'm over there), to take back the too-small bathing suits I bought for Sophia at Target, and to get ready for the second used curriculum sale in our area on Saturday.
Here is a picture thought I am sharing...
Sophia is busy latchhooking a rug for her room. She's making it in 12 x 12 panels and then sewing them together. She laid three panels on the floor to see how they looked and MudLynn immediately expressed her approval by going over and lying down on them!
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