Happy Homemaker Monday

 

 
Trying again for another  Happy Homemaker Monday with Sandra over at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom.  As my friend Elisha, who inspired me to join in, commented: "With so much emphasis on what we do outside our homes it's always nice to see how others are managing the inside stuff of home and family."  I agree with that thought, though many times I don't feel I manage the inside stuff all that well.   We will see how I do!

The Weather:::

Gorgeous and sunny blue-sky day.  A really sunny week is predicted and we are hoping to spend some quality time at our little camp.  Now that the winter is pretty much past, we'll be hanging out the sign again:

As I look outside my window:::

 

I still see lots of snow in the woods, mud in the driveway, bare trees.  The sap buckets are down and stacked but yet to be washed.  As I mentioned last week, early spring is an ugly season here in New Hampshire.

 

Right now I am:::
 

Just back from a walk and thinking about what I need to accomplish with the rest of the day.   While on our walk we heard the distinctive call of a red-winged blackbird.

Thinking and pondering:::
 

On the topic "taking a bird's-eye view" as I prepare a devotional to share with a group of ladies in mid-May.

On my bedside table:::
 

Books, a pen, vial of Deep Relief essential oil.

On my tv this week::: 

We have a TV, but it's stored in a box upstairs and we bring it out only when we want to watch a movie.  Our DVD player isn't working so it's been awhile since we watched one.  We did watch two episodes of The Andy Griffith Show at our daughter and son-in-law's home last evening.

Listening to:::
 

Nothing right now; I'm enjoying the quiet.

On the Breakfast plate:::
 

I do intermittent fasting so don't have breakfast.  Lunch is going to be a salad with cubes of cheese and roast beef.

On the dinner plate::: 

 

Some sort of crockpot chicken dish with zucchini and red peppers.  Making it up as I go along.  Idid have a recipe published in the book below, but this chicken dish isn't it, since I'm inventing it today.

 

On the menu for this week:::

 

I usually plan my menus from Thursday to Thursday, and grocery shop on Friday morning.  A few meals on my menu plan:

Egg roll in a bowl
Healthy burger salad bowl
Chicken with zucchini and red peppers
Egg bake with bacon 

 

On my reading pile:::

 

Stories that Bind Us by Susie Finkbeiner

We Travel an Appointed Way by A.W. Tozer

On my to do list today:::
 

 Dishes     

Laundry, lots of laundry

Clean the top shelf of a cabinet
Supper in crockpot
Scrub kitchen sink

Plans for this week:::

Plan menus and make grocery list

List some kids' books, notions, patterns, and cards on Etsy

Plan a meal for guests at Sunday lunch after church

Decluttering in the bathrooms

Write blog posts
Work on my Sunday School lesson

Just listed on Etsy

What I am creating:::

 
Fabric bookmark
January cross-stitch sampler
Start some pillow quilts for youngest granddaughters

 

From the camera:::

 

Ari and Jim on their little pond.  Josiah's ducks in the foreground!

 
I snagged the photo from Carrie's Instagram.   So lovely and sunny down by the pond yesterday afternoon.  The three ducks are the ones Josiah incubated back in December.  Aren't they amazing?

 

Bible verse, Devotional, Quote:::

Continuing through a study of Lamentations.  Pondering this verse today: "Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?"  (Lamentations 3:37)  Such a statement of God's sovereignty!  A cross-reference is Psalm 33:9 -- "For He spake, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast."

 

On my prayer list:::

Friends & Family
Missionaries

There is Happy Homemaker Monday for this week!