Happy New Year! It has been a busy two weeks with celebrating Christmas, ringing in the New Year and getting our oldest daughter headed back to college. I'm thankful for the slower pace and relaxed routines we were able to have; although school breaks are never long enough! We finally got some snow; almost a foot of it! So the kids have a snow day today while the city, schools and people dig out. I thought I'd take a minute to join in this
week's
Happy Homemaker Monday with Sandra over at Diary of a Stay At Home Mom. I hope you all are having a great week and start to this new year.
The Weather:
It's cold here today, but very sunny. It's pretty to see the sun shining off the snow and the snow covered trees.
Outside my Window:
Snowy & Sunny! I still need to clean off my car (again) from all the snow. Speaking of my car, yesterday we had 1/2 of our mulberry tree fall on top of my car! Thankfully there was very minimal damage and no one was outside when it happened. My car is older so I'm not even worried about the dent caused.
Right Now I am:
Taking a minute to sit and blog while bread dough is rising and laundry is finishing.
Thinking and Pondering:
Many things! What needs to get done this week, how I need to trust God more, how to best honor God in a specific situation, whether or not God is calling me to a specific ministry and what that would look like.On my T.V this week:
Hoping to finally watch the Oppenheimer movie
On the Dinner Plate:
Chicken Pot Pie.On the Menu this week:
I actually sat down this morning (first time in several weeks) and wrote up a menu.What I'm Reading:
On my To-Do list today:
Plans for this week:
Return some things to a lady we served with this weekendWhat I'm Creating:.
From the Camera:
I don't have a lot of pictures as I was focused on just enjoying the time with family but here are a few from the past couple weeks.
Highlight from Last week:
There have been many highlights over the past week. Celebrating Christmas with family and friends, the beautiful Christmas Eve services at church, extra family time & a more relaxed pace over vacation, getting to go on a fun date night and today having a snow day.
There are days and weeks where I feel like I'm doing well with trusting God. Then there are other weeks where every day is a struggle and things that I thought I had left in His hands come barreling back and knock my faith to it's knees. The why's and other questions can be so discouraging. Recently I had been having one of those weeks; I was wrestling with God and fighting hard to not fall back into old habits and unhealthy coping mechanisms. I didn't really feel like listening to worship music but Spotify has a Release Radar list that they update with new songs from artists you've listened to, I listen to many different genres of music; however, since much of what I listen to is, in fact, worship music there are often new worship songs. I put the playlist on, half listened to the first song and then this song came on next. As the song played I started smiling and praying. Okay, God, I hear You. It's a great reminder to keep trusting, keep enduring, God does care He does see and He doesn't forget....Don't stop praying!
Kids away at college and kiddos here this school year.
Wisdom in parenting
Peace & the willingness to let go of things that are not mine to carry.
This was such a good read today, Elisha! That shawlette is beautiful! It might be something my minimal crocheting skills could handle (as if I need any more projects!) Are you going to add the tassels?
ReplyDeleteWe got the call this afternoon that our local schools are going "virtual" tomorrow. I'm glad to hear that there wasn't much damage to your car. I'm ready for Spring! lol Have a great week :)
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Beautiful photos, lots of snow for you as well. We liked the Oppenheimer movie but it is a long one. Hope your week is off to a wonderful start!
ReplyDeleteGreat menu plan. Bet the house smells good with the homemade bread. Glad nobody got hurt with that tree. Our snowday is today. Have a great week
ReplyDeleteI love the picture of the kitty on the steps. I'm definitely a cat lady! Everything on your menu sounds yummy! I've been wanting to make some taco soup. Maybe this weekend!
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