Happy Homemaker Monday

 

On this last Monday in 2024,  I'm taking a few minutes to join Sandra for this link party over at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom. 

The Weather:::

Cold, cold, cold! It's 5º now, but was minus 3 when I got up.  Chance of snow tonight, I guess.

As I look outside my window:::

It's cloudy -- though it's supposed to be sunny later this morning.  Roads are bare, but there's snow on the ground.  No question that we will have a white Christmas.  If there are a few inches of snow tonight, as predicted,  that will freshen things up.

Right now I am:::

 Working on a blog post. 

 
Thinking and pondering:::

 About many things, among them the plight of so many in Appalachia who are still living in inadequate shelters like tents, those who have lost loved ones (many are still missing) and those trying to help their neighbors.  These are independent, resourceful, resilient people.  Yet they need our prayer support and whatever help we can offer.

On my bedside table::: 

 A lamp, 2 books, and a pen

Vintage Santa mug and paper plate!

Listening to::: 

Literally, silence. Occasionally the clatter of a pan as my hubby bakes cookies downstairs in the kitchen.

On the Breakfast plate::: 

I do intermittent fasting so don't have breakfast. We may meet friends for lunch downtown.  If that doesn't pan out, lunch will be a salad of leaf lettuce, cubed turkey,  and Swiss cheese.

On the dinner plate::: 

Not sure yet.

Ari and Grampa check a candy recipe

On the menu for this week::: 

 A few meals on my menu plan:

Hamburgers, roasted Brussels sprouts

Chicken divan

Taco pie, green beans

 

On my reading pile:::

 

  Glad and Golden Hours, by Lanier Ivester -- an early Christmas gift from my daughter that I am loving.  I am also doing my more-or-less annual reread of Shepherds Abiding, by Jan Karon.

On my to do list today:::

 

 Spend time cross stitching

Write two Christmas cards

Deliver a package to the post office and some gifts to friends
Maybe bake some cookies
Wrap some gifts

Crochet a square for my temperature blanket

Go to Walmart for a couple of last things 

Granddaughter Ari ready to deliver a neighbor gift with Mr. T

Plans for this week:::

Ironing

Blogging

Start a pillow quilt

Two last Christmas cards
Baking and candy making
Wrapping gifts

Celebrate Christmas

A hutch shelf

What I am creating:::

 

⛄  Winter cross-stitch projects

⛄  Need to start a pillow quilt

⛄  A granny square temperature blanket

 

Bible verse, Devotional, Quote:::

 

Another quote from Glad & Golden Hours.

 

"When I tie those ribbons on the branched arms of the chandelier, I think, as I always have done, of Christmases past, and all the memories with which they are inextricably twined.  But I also think of the unseen mercies coming our way, the goodness of God winging toward us through all the stretches of the unknown year.  Even in our hardest places, that goodness is coming -- is, in fact, already present, though we humans can rarely see it but in retrospect."

 

On my prayer list:::

 

Friends & family
Church family
Missionaries
Our country

Those in North Carolina and parts of Tennessee still displaced by the results of Hurricane Helene.

 

I will be sharing an entire post about this tomorrow.

 

And there's the Happy Homemaker Monday  for this week!