Wordless Wednesday - Dill

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Simple Woman's Day Book - Night Edition

For Today...I will finalize the newsletter for my dear friend Jan

Outside my window...it's dark, cool, and refreshing

I am thinking...that I should start getting to bed on time

From the learning rooms...nothing much - I want to work on school plans

I am thankful for...the afternoon rain

From the kitchen...leftover pancakes from dinner

I am wearing...capris and a sleeveless ecru top

I am reading...The Old Schoolhouse, Summer 2009

I am hoping...to accomplish a LOT tomorrow

I am creating...a lovely chocolate brown & sky blue room

I am praying...to walk in God's will

Around the house...getting ready for Mr. & Mrs. Wrangler and the Gremlins

One of my favorite things...amaretto cordials

A few plans for the rest of the week...laundry, getting the house ready, shooting pictures of whatever catches my attention, doing the books, playing with photos

Here is a picture thought I am sharing with you...my niece and me at lunch today. I took her shopping for part of her birthday present this afternoon. She got some super cute clothes at Old Navy.

To see other daybooks, go here. Have a blessed day evening!!

Queen of Unfinished Projects

It's just one of my many self-proclaimed titles. I've had this one for a very long time. Sadly, it's gotten worse in the past few years. I know there are a lot of Golden Gate Bridge things in life. You know the type, you just get finished and you have to do it all over again? I get that. Dishes, laundry, cleaning house. Even if it's ever done, entropy hits, life happens, and it's a mess again. But that's not what I'm talking about.

If I were to go through my house and make a list of unfinished projects right now, I'd probably keel over dead from the overwhelmingly, shockingly long list of them. I'm terrific at getting started, being motivated, all gung-ho for a thing. But it's not long before I'm distracted or busy or uninterested or whatever, and the thing slips to the back burner. I see it, but just can't quite get back to it. Then one day, it just falls off the stove top. Usually next to the counter. So I can't see it at all any more. And being that I'm a visual person . . . well, out of sight, out of mind.

So I continue on with my little life, replicating this same scenario up to a dozen times a day. At times I think that I've learned to subliminally ignore all those undone tasks for self-preservation. But then there are those days. Those days when I'm acutely aware of them. I gaze over them, wishing I'd have dealt with them before, frustrated with the real estate they occupy in my home and mind.


How apropos - I began this post nearly two months ago. Not surprisingly, I didn't finish what I began. At least not when I began it. Ha! Ha! Back to your regularly scheduled post...

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What's a girl to do? Put myself on a project fast, make a list and check things off, run away, or just resign myself to my shortcomings? Anyone have a brilliant, fool-proof method for dealing with such things? This is one case in which it is not good to be the Queen. LOL!


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Wordless Wednesday - Fungus Amungus

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Fun with Fireworks

Usually on the Fourth of July, we have a BBQ and fireworks and hang out and such. However, since Independence Day fell on Saturday - church night for us - it threw our traditional plans off just a bit. It also poured like crazy before and during church, which we thought might further alter our plans. Fortunately, it let up after we got back home, and the kids were able to play with some fireworks after all. We didn't get a lot of different things - just sparklers, twirly sparkly thingies (that's their technical name, of course), firetrucks, and snakes.

My niece is the biggest ham. Which just happens to work well when I'm a big camera junkie. She's always a willing subject and just cute as ever. While her red, white, and blue shirt was fun, there was something kind of cool about the b&w to me.

I love sparklers! They never get old. Not even when you're 15.

The Comedian and my youngest niece.

I like how my niece's circle encompasses her sister.

These firetrucks would shoot off in one direction, sparks flying, then stop. Then they'd take off in the reverse direction with the same effects. And once again, they'd head out as in the beginning. At the end of it all, the hose/pipe/whatever would raise up and shoot some more sparks. I don't recall real firetrucks doing that.

I decided I was very grateful for the earlier rain, though, as I suspect it made the firefighters' job much easier that night.