Daybook - Thursday, March 25th

outside my window . . . it’s a bit overcast but there are signs that spring is coming

in the kitchen . . .  chaos reigns but I will soon be going in there and getting things in order.  We are having surf and turf tonight in honor of Andy’s birthday…crab legs and London broil…Yum!

around the house . . .  We are all around the house. The kids are dispersed about resting and relaxing.

on my iPod . . . I’ve been ODing on the newest BBC version of Emma.  Lately I’ve also been downloading lots of opera …Pavarotti, Flores and Fleming

from our studies . . . we are almost done with our study of World History. 

thinking about . . .  not much. I’ve been so tired lately that fog reigns in the brain.

listening to. . . blessed quiet

thankful for. . . my hubby who is 50 today!

pondering the words . . . “Do the Next Thing” Can you tell I’m in survival mode?

to foster rhythm and beauty . . . oh boy! Need to work on that.

one of my favorite things . . .  sleep.  I can’t get enough of it lately

milestones in the past week . . . besides Andy turning 50?

a few plans for the upcoming week . . . next week we look forward to Chase coming home for a long weekend for Easter break. We will celebrate his 19^th birthday and later have friends over for Easter Sunday.  It will be a fun week.

Words for Wednesday

This is like so cool...ya know?


Typography from Ronnie Bruce on Vimeo.

Happy Dependence Day

As Mark Steyn put it, Sunday, March 21, 2010 is Dependence Day....and a sad day for our country.  I feel that I now must respond in some way to this travesty inflicted on our country.  I will be praying about what my response should be...but I am thinking about becoming more active in the coming elections.  I also plan to educate my children even more carefully on our country's Constitution and what it really says.  I want them to be educated and thinking citizens who will not fall for hollow rhetoric.  Here is a great quote from Thomas Jefferson:

"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."

Funny...but sadly, true

Friendship

Well, we were talking about Blogs today at co-op and so...I think I'll start trying to blog a little more often. I began looking around at some of my favorite blog and I found the following lovely quote about friendship. I have been blessed to have such a friend....and I'm so thankful!

All kinds of things rejoiced my soul in the company of my friends--
to talk and laugh and do each other kindnesses;
read pleasant books together,
pass from lightest jesting to talk of the deepest things and back again;
differ without rancor, as a man might differ with himself,
and when most rarely dissension arose
find our normal agreement all the sweeter for it;
teach each other and learn from each other;
be impatient for the return of the absent,
and welcome them with joy on their homecoming;
these and such like things,
proceeding from our hearts
as we gave affection and received it back,
and shown by face, by voice, by the eyes,
and a thousand other pleasing ways,
kindled a flame which infused our very souls
and of many made us one.
This is what men value in friends.

~ St. Augustine