A Simple Woman's Daybook

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From Mama Bear's Journal....

FOR TODAY
Outside my window...there are a few snowflakes falling...it is unreal to see them in November...they won't stick to the ground, though...its been raining the last few days and I'm wondering where the sun has gone...its 35 degrees (2 °C) right now but expected to reach 40 this afternoon.

I am thinking...that my home needs some attention...that our laundry hampers are full....

I am thankful...that I don't have to go anywhere this morning...for a warm and cozy house....for hot coffee and a warm robe, Smokey asleep in my lap...Honey Bear is home...

In the kitchen...the refrigerator is pretty bare but the pantry is well stocked...I need to pour myself another cup of coffee and find some breakfast...my throat is a little scratchy so I'm thinking some oatmeal would be a good idea.....

I am wearing...the usual

I am creating...nothing much...I need to put some patchwork on the blocks for the SAL quilt and find some hand work to do in the evening so I don't give in to the temptation to nibble on food...

I am going...shopping this afternoon with the Princess...she asked me to take her after school...she wants to buy a gift for her Mother's Birthday...such a thoughtful child...

I am wondering...about how much decorating I want to do this year...Honey Bear said he would take care of the outside lights (just on the bushes and porch-I don't want him to get up on the ladder to do the eaves....where I want to put the tree...

I am reading...Mill River Recluse by Darcie Chan

I am hoping...we have no bad road conditions caused by the weather

I am looking forward to...our club Christmas party next week...

I am hearing...the furnace just clicked off...clocks ticking...my stomach telling me its been too long since Dinner last night...

Around the house...we still have some Fall and Thanksgiving decor out

I am pondering...the words to Robert Frost poem: Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening....do you know it?


One year ago today....it was 60 degrees but the temperatures were supposed to drop slowly during the day...I hadn't decorated for Christmas...I was planning for a couple of pot luck lunches I was attending that week...we'd just returned from a vacation in Blue Ridge, Georgia....I was reading One Strike for Christmas by Sheila Roberts.....

One of my favorite things...seeing the scales with a lower number when I have my weigh-in on Friday morning

A few plans for the rest of the week:Shopping this afternoon with the Princess....fellowship supper at church on Wednesday...county club meeting and pot luck on Thursday...tour of B&B with lunch following on Friday...

Here is picture for thought I am sharing...

more benches from our Fall vacation....