Oh how I love my summer schedule. It allows me the luxury of being a full-time Homemaker. To celebrate this I thought I would join in Sandra’s Homemaker Monday.
The weather in my neck of the woods: it’s a beautiful sunny day today. No rain scheduled except perhaps for our normal afternoon showers.
One of my simple pleasures: is grabbing whatever book I am currently reading and climbing between my bedcovers with both dogs laying at me feet and reading the afternoon away and ultimately drifting off for a nap.
On my bedside table (actually it’s a bedside basket): The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks and The Case for Faith by Lee Strobel.
On my TV: The new season of The Closer starts tonight!!! Yippee!!
On the menu for tonight: Probably leftovers or sandwiches as I still teach nights during the summer.
On my To-Do List: I was able to dust/vacuum/rearrange and de-clutter our master bedroom and closet yesterday. This week I hope to:
- vacuum/dust front and back living room (with the help of Miss Sam)
- continue working on my photography website
- laundry (never leaves my To-Do list)
- scrapbooking
- continue to transcribe letters from World War II
- continue working on my paver walkway and garden area in my back yard.
New recipe I tried this week: Hmmmm let me think….that would be none. Sorry. Now that summer is here perhaps I will get better…I did pretty good during the Fall and slacked off some during the spring. Although during the spring I did collect quite a few cookbooks. My favorite is Southern Living’s Busy Moms Weeknight Favorites.
In the craft basket: My only craft these days is scrapbooking. On my way to campus this evening I plan on stopping by Hobby Lobby (with 40% coupon in hand) and get a bigger scrapbook for our Pet Scrapbook.
Looking forward to: ordering some more cards for my Greeting Card line.
Homemaking tip for this week: I just read a great tip in a Better Homes and Garden magazine a friend loaned me ~ it’s called a transfer basket. It’s a basket to gather everything that needs to go out the door the next day – library books, bills to mail, work paraphenalia. The basket is hauled into the car every morning and is brought back into the house when errands are done. I plan on stopping by Beall’s Outlet this afternoon and pick up a ‘basket’ and also a storage box for my closet.
Favorite Blog post of the week:
- Lamaze Breathing by From a Heavenly Land
Favorite photo from last week: My first batch of home grown tomatoes. Can’t wait to make some mayo and tomato sandwiches this week!!
Lessons learned the past few days: That it’s okay to nap in the middle of the afternoon. I asked my husband last night “What is wrong with me that I now take a nap in the middle of the afternoon?” His reply “Why can’t you realize that it may be that something is now right with you.” Well stated.
Devotional/Scripture Reading/Key Verses:
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted. Luke 14:11
Rather than aiming for prestige, look for a place where you can serve. If God wants you to serve on a wider scale, he will invite you take a higher place.
How are you approaching the idea of homemaking this summer?
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I don’t dare take a afternoon nap very often… it always messes up my night sleeping, which is messed up quite enough already! I already get up about 3:30 every morning!
I’m honored you picked me! I don’t have a transfer basket, but I do have a transfer bag. It has saved my sanity more than once!
I’m so jealous of your tomatoes! We tried to grow some one summer, but the caterpillars devoured them. They weren’t even on the ground but in barrels! Sigh.
Start slicing tomatoes, I am on my way. I’ll bring homemade bread.
My whole homemaking thing is going to be to go with the flow. It has to be. We’re going to be packing and moving and unpacking. I also need to reexamine priorities of children vs housework.
I picked up The Case for Faith when I was in town last week and debated buying it. I read his Case for Christmas and liked it.
Nap in the afternoon could mean that you are having too many carbohydrates for lunch and they are making you sleepy. A common side effect. Or you are getting older!!