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FOR TODAY…   November 8th (evening)

Outside my window… Dark, expecting rain.  It's actually Sunday evening and I am here uploading a senior photo shoot.  I know that getting on the computer first thing in the morning will derail the day. Motto – start the day before the children, with bible not keyboard.

I am thinking… that many things which just overwhelmed me while trying to learn in my twenties and early thirties seem within my reach now.  This is amazing to me because I don't always feel that I am capable of particularly lucid thought these days. ; o  But I guess a perk of age and exposure is that as fewer things are new and foreign you are able to process new things more easily.  

I am thankful for… celebrating ten years with the young man at the post's end.  Isn't he handsome?  Go ahead and tell him how mature he looks. ; D  

I am wearing… a brown velour tired skirt, paisley rust and brown peasant top, brown boots.  I managed to leave the house without earrings today. (Reference that lucid thought comment above.) 

I am hearing…  family noises – Allen and the kids are right next to me in the family room watching Amazing Race with the globe in hand searching for Dubai. 

I am remembering… our early married days in a very far away place. 

I am working on this habit….  inside voices.  

I am reading…   Everyone's Guide to Homeopathy, which has been sitting on my shelves for years and years and suddenly not making me fuzzy headed trying to figure out.  Also wanting to read more of The Art of the Incredibles.  Did you ever look closely at the set?  Did you realize it  meticulously reproduces a mid-century neighborhood? Fascinating.  

I am enjoying these sites…

Parenting Passageway  Her post about discovering new things about oneself and merging new interests with old strikes a chord right now

Waldorf Baby  this is a subpage of Donna Simmons' Christopherus site.  Especially agree with her thoughts about little baby limbs.  I am not an athroposophist but do feel very much as Donna does about these things and readily admit to cringing over barefooted babies in cool weather. This may be a generational 'thing' since I come from a time and place where babies were never thought to be warm enough <g>  Seriously though, I recall Dr Raymond Moore in Home Made Health saying similar things about keeping the extremities the same temp as the trunk of the body.  I am not a Dr. and I don't play one on the internet.  Just sayin'.  

From the learning rooms…  digging up early reading instruction materials for Tess and Brendan, both showing some interest.  Christmas music practice beginning. 

A few plans for the week…  The father/son group is meeting here to make a 'poor box' for Advent, St Martin's Bonfire at The Dog and Duck, and Allen is off for Veteran's Day : )  

From the kitchen… boy scout popcorn, turkey soup in the works from Sunday dinner

Around the house… serious purging and discernment.  Just because we have room, should we fill it all up?  Would Kindle readers be better than storing paperback of classics which look ragged after one read?  Are these antiques, lovely as they are, worth the maintenance and care they require? Feeling a little smothered by things that are breakable and full of nooks and crannies that catch dust. 

Abbie this week… Standing from a sitting position with no help at all! 

One of my favorite things… Macintosh apples.  Oh my.  Do you have any idea how hard it is to find these anymore??? Why?? 

Pondering these words… 

"Thou Who of old didst love they hand to lay

on the dull, vacant eyes that craved for light,

Behold I come to thee and crying pray:

"A faith scarce clouded by the mists of earth,

a faith that pierceth heaven I ask of Thee,

Faith to prize all things by their lasting worth,

Thou canst, Thous wilt – Oh Lord that I  may see."

–Before the Most Holy , Mother Mary Loyola

From my picture journal…