The Simple Woman's Daybook for the week of January 12, 2009

FOR TODAY Monday January 12th ...
Outside my window... a few pink and purple tinted clouds but otherwise clear skies, the sun just coming over the horizon... big and yellow and looking warm but winter's bite has it a cool 26 degrees F.

I am thinking... I need to figure out what to do to keep on our new schedule. Dh left for work and I fell back asleep... I am thankful for the extra hour I had but we were supposed to get up at 7:00 and when I woke it was 7:20... oh well... on with our day

I am thankful for... clear skies and seeing the sun... it has been a while, and a FULL freezer. We went at Shady Maple Farm Market in PA on Sat. and dd says, "We can not get another stick of butter in there, well actually Mom, I could." It is a joke in our house that Rachel can rearrange any fridge or freezer to fit more food in than any person I know.

From the learning rooms... continuing with Vikings: Reading The Vikings by Elizabeth Janeway (a Landmark book) and The Story of Rolf and the Viking Bow by Allen French a Bethlehem books book. We started reading both last week. Still doing Botticelli for our Artist and Bach for our Composer Studies. Finishing up Senses this week and next is Digestive System. Continuing week two of our exercise program (more on that later in the week).

From the kitchen... this week I will be trying to cut back on fats and eating better. I have some Weight Watchers meals planned for the dinners I am cooking Monday night (and next Sunday Dinner) and I have some lunches planned from WW also, soup one day and a lighter version of BLT's one day with Canadian Bacon.

I am wearing... my bathrobe... I need to get dressed.

I am creating...nothing, but I have a couple of projects that need to get done. I need to make a cross ornament for myself because the one I finished for myself I sent to a friend. I also want to get back to scrapbooking at least one afternoon a week. I would like to start that this week.

I am going... no where!!!

I am reading... For myself: Two From Galilee and The Stones Cry Out by Sibella Giorello. Stuff to boys (see from the learning rooms above) and Little House in the Big Woods to the boys at night before bed (made some progress this week hope to keep it up and even do a little better this coming week). To the family: Spring with the Moody's by Sarah Maxwell.

I am hoping... that before December 2009 my husband can find another job... one so we can have health benefits... right now the kids are covered but not dh and I. That worries me daily... he has multiple health issues!

I am hearing... trucks and cars on the way to somewhere... my kids getting up and getting going.

Around the house... kids taking showers, dd making Cream of Wheat for breakfast because we are have only a small amount of milk 'til dad comes home from work later. Hopefully, other children already up are doing morning devotions.

One of my favorite things... full freezers and full storage shelves of food. Thank you God for supplying our needs.

A few plans for the rest of the week: continuing with our exercise - I exercised 1 hour a day for 5 days last week, scrapbooking, school of course, an afternoon with Jessica (it is her turn for lunch with Mom and do whatever she wants from after lunch 'til dinner), and continue to work on persuing my goals (see post on 2009 goals by scrolling down or clicking here.

Here are the picture thoughts I am sharing...

Full Freezers! Praise the Lord!

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Have a Wonder filled week,
Debbie

Homeschool Memoirs #16: Candy

Homeschool Memoirs #16: Candy

This is an old Memoir,

one that I missed doing

and am getting caught up on.

It was from Dec. 3, 2008.

THEME:

This week it’s seriously going to be just fun. This week share your favourite candies.

God’s Word is also like sweetness to our souls. His sweet love, forgiveness, comfort, peace, and more is what makes our lives seem a little more bearable when things get rough. Whenever you eat your sweet piece of goodness remember that God loves you and will always be there when life seems sour.
Share a scripture for this week as well. One that lifts you up when you’re feeling discouraged.
MY THEME:
Well, I Love Candy. That is one of the reasons I have soooooo much weight to loose. I cannot blame it on the candy alone however, because no piece of candy ever attacked me and forced me to eat it!!! LOL Neither did the cheesecake, or cookies, or bread, or cake... etc., etc. I am trying to cut back and have been exercising starting last week and will be weighing myself tomorrow morning since most of the candy, cookies and other goodies from Christmas are gone.
I do not have a favorite candy... I have several... ok I have many!!! LOL

Here is a list of some of my favorites though I will eat most any kind that does not have coconut. I will not make you suffer with pictures of them all... just a few. They are in no particular order, just the order they came into my mind:

LifeSavers Gummies (both five flavor and wild berry),

Lindt Chocolates (especially white chocolate, mint, and peanut butter),

Butterfinger Crisp,

Take 5 (love these... they have ALL the good stuff in them)

Ferrero Rocher,

Twix (more candy with caramel in it), Reece's Pieces, Baby Ruth, One Hundred Grand Bar, Riesen, M&M's (peanut and almond only I don't often waste calories on the plain ones), Snickers (I like Snickers with Almonds best but original is good too), 3 Musketeers, Milky Way, Kit Kat, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups - White Chocolate, Raisinets, Rolos Chewy Caramels (oops even more caramels), Toblerone, Wonka Bar (we love the old version of Willy Wonka), York Peppermint Patties, Jr. Mints, Hershey's Symphony with Almonds and Toffee, anything caramel (especially Junior Caramels and Caramel Creams), Whoppers (original and Reese's Peanut Butter), Swedish Fish,

Heath Bar or SKOR both are toffee bars, both made by Hershey taste almost the same but I like Heath a little bit better,

Cadbury Caramel Eggs (only available around Easter, oops more caramel),

and our favorite day trip to Lititz, PA: Wilbur Chocolate Factory

http://www.wilburbuds.com/

I usually get: Peanutbutter Meltaways and Chocolate Covered Caramels, we usually get a bag of Wilbur Buds as a family and then each member gets to pick one bag (or a $$ limit of candy). I would love to get their Liquid Bath Soap that is made with real cocoa
powder. YUM!!! It is not for eating... but to bath in chocolate... what a luxury.

Well that is enough of a list though I am SURE I left some out!!

Now for the verse, the one popped in my head as soon as I read to add a verse was Psalm 19:9 - 10 "The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb."

but that is not a verse that lifts me up when I feel discouraged. So I choose these.

Romans 8:28-39 (King James Version)

28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Have a Sweet week with your Savior and Lord,
Debbie