April 30: You Never Know

I was up early enough this morning that I decided to go ahead and make pancakes.  I avoid making pancakes and I'll tell you why.  I find them very time consuming.  I cannot find a flat griddle that covers two burners properly on my stove...I take that back. I had one but it was huge, cast iron and heavy as could be.  I gave it to one or another of the kids and since then I've been unable to find one that doesn't have handles which butt into the back panel of the stove and prevents the thing from sitting properly on the two burners.  So, I use a frying pan.  I can fry one large or two medium or three small at a time.  If I opt to do the larger pancakes it truly does take forever and then some to get the batter all cooked up. 

April 29: Well...

 

                               It looks nothing like this just at the moment but I'm working on it!

Last night, John was trying to watch some program or other and it was pretty horrible.  I finally told him, "Let's just move on from this one and try something else."  I'd been doing my best to ignore images, but I swear the moment I would look up from my computer or book I was hit with a horrible vision of what he was watching.  He very nicely put on something else which ended up being weird and then BLAM! another horrible image. He immediately switched that one off as well.  Then he landed on another British series, "Dr. Finlay" which we both watched and enjoyed.  

April 28: Finishing Off April

 

The contractor pushed hard this past weekend and finished the kitchen.  Now I need to determine what I'm going to hang on the walls and where I shall place things.  I lived with what decor I'd put up for quite some time and only one piece is going back right where it was all those months.  The rest I will figure out as I go and try to determine if they even fit the direction I have been slowly trying to go in for the past year or so.  

The kitchen does look lovely, and I promise you all pictures.  I just got things put back into place (not decor, just furniture and counter appliances) this morning.  And frankly I am tired.  Partly due to a tough night for unknown reasons and that I worked very hard indeed this morning.  But I'm ahead of myself...

April 27: Clearing My Head

 

I might ought to title this one "Work, Work, Work!"   I couldn't sleep Friday night for thinking oh so many thoughts about the weekend and the week ahead.  I planned meals and planned tasks and planned things I felt sure I hadn't any time for at all.  I thought ahead into next month and realized it's a five week stretch this time between paydays...which bears thinking about.  

What I Did This Week

 

It seems at the end of every single week, I realize it's Friday and then I feel this surge of...not guilt, nor frustration.  But I have this sense that the week flew by, and I have accomplished absolutely nothing.  I'm going to track what I do each day this week and just prove to myself that either that feeling is true or it's false.  Let's see how this goes.

April 24: Happy Reminders

 

I looked out our bedroom window this morning and remembered three different people in a matter of seconds.

Nancy gave me the deep red antique rambling rose that is blooming right now outside my bedroom window and in front of the back porch.  They were on the property when her husband's grandparents settled that spot.  She gave me two different roses but only one has survived.  The one in front of the back porch I rooted myself.  

April 23: Put It Back

It's meant to rain tomorrow (happens we got a small shower today, as well), and Friday we have Travis coming in, not to mention all the House Blessing cleaning and planning that I do on Fridays.  So today we headed off to Sam's Club to do our every other month shopping.  

Y'all...The number of things I looked at, considered and then carefully put back on the shelf was great.  John said to me on the way home, "I started to wonder if you were going to buy anything.  You just kept putting things back."  Well, I put things in the buggy as well, but not nearly as much as I'd thought I might.  I had looked at preview ads for the grocery stores yesterday, so I'd have the prices fixed in my mind before shopping today.  It proved to be a good strategy because it made me very mindful of what I'd pay routinely if I didn't go to Sam's Club and most all of what I bought was a better purchase than I could get at the regular grocery.