It’s not Monday anymore, but it seems like Monday to me, because we were gone over the weekend and didn’t get home till last evening. So, my stuff-to-do-today, is my Monday type stuff.
Thus, I will just post a Monday post because I’d like to post it and it makes it easier to categorize the posts the way I want to. {At least at this point in time.} 🙂
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I started out with a bit of a scratchy throat last week and it turned into somewhat of a cold and cough. It’s a little strange. I haven’t felt all that bad, but then I will have tickles/scratches in my throat that come on with NO WARNING and are very annoying and cause a good bit of coughing. I’m tired, too, and tired of coughing. {Tired seems to be a much bigger part of my life a lot more of the time in the last ten months than I’d prefer.} Yet, it could be much worse and I’ve had much worse colds. I also feel bad because it gets old to have someone around who keeps coughing. {My family has been very kind. And I know my cough has kept my poor man from sleeping a good night’s sleep a few nights, too.} We had a fun weekend with my husband’s brother and family. I didn’t feel that bad when we left, but then my cough started in worse. Yuck! They had just had some colds and coughs, so hopefully I did not pass anything on to them.
We had snow at the beginning of the week last week and again this week!! It melted quite quickly last week. The temps got cold at the end of the week and over the weekend and seem to think they’re going to stay that way for a bit.
This photo I had snapped earlier. Some Valentine decor in Renae’s room. Valentine teddy bears from several years ago from Daddy and little bro~old valentine~and her pouffe from Aunt Jill. I thought it all looked so lovely together.
Pretty veggies~
stack of magnets collected by one certain son of mine off of shelving that my farmer hauled home
My dear man found an ad for some shelving. When he called about it and found out a little more and that it was still available, he changed plans and headed off with a trailer to get shelves! We’ve long wanted shelves for a building on our farm. I was and have been so excited for him that he found the shelving. It is good stuff and a good price and will save him the work of building shelves like he had pretty much decided he was going to need to do to have affordable shelves.
{Thanks to kind neighbors who had a trailer we could use to haul the shelving home.}
Vehicles with broken windshields.
Patiently awaiting the scheduled appointment to have them replaced.
I chuckled to myself at seeing our vehicles backed into the garage for the fix-it man. We don’t normally back into the garage. But it made easy to pull out the next time I left!!
Lovely to have a new windshield in my Suburban! It was really pitted and then had been hit by a small rock that left a cracked spot, which soon spider webbed.
These cracks remind me of the lens flare that I add to photos sometimes when I edit or that happens with the right lighting on some photos!
Crackling candle~
THANKFUL for every peaceful day and for beauty and coziness of home~
And I love these kinds of photos!
Speaking of photos, I finally used my husband’s phone and set up an Instagram account. My sister has been on Instagram for a long time and I kept thinking {knowing} it would be fun, but I don’t have a smartphone and I kept thinking about just setting it up with my man’s phone, but not doing it, because it’s easier to have your own device and personalize it the way you want and I just never took the time and so on and so forth.
Then, last summer, my daughter got an iPod and got set up on Instagram and I would pop in and look at her stuff now and then and once again, I kept thinking off and on that I should just set it up. I’m a good procrastinator and I tend to mull things over. {Kind of like looking back now and thinking I should’ve started blogging sooner and I should’ve joined Lilla Rose sooner}{But so it goes! 😉 }
BUT, I did do it. I am officially on Instagram and of course, it is fun, because it’s kind of like blogging in miniature! I have felt like I’ve had a little trouble finding the blogs and people who I’d like to follow. I know not everyone is on Instagram, but I also feel like the whole search thing doesn’t do the best job, but maybe it’s just me. There were people I knew had Instagram, but it wouldn’t bring them up when I searched. Who knows? Some days I just don’t want to think about one more techie thing. Other days I love learning technology. Come join me on Instagram if you have it!
And my husband has been sweetly letting me hijack/share his phone off and on so I can have Instagram!
We uncovered the sidewalk last week.
We so enjoyed seeing this baby niece. She was quite taken with Tucker. And with his kitty. She really likes stuffed animals. She was often crawling up to sit beside Tucker and he read her quite a few books. She loves books!
Good Morning sleepyheads!
There’s that kitty!
Sweet baby niece took her little bowl of popcorn and climbed right up on Tucker’s chair. Why, yes, there was room, no questions asked!!! We got a lot of fun giggles out of watching her. She’s learning to count to ten and learning her colors. So fun to ask questions to babies in this stage!
We hauled shelves and also hauled home hopper bottoms for grain bins. Renae baby-sat and house cleaned. We did deskwork and schoolwork. Tucker had a friend over. We had cold wind. We backed up pictures. We did dishes and laundry. I wonder how the days can slip by so quickly. As I said earlier, I am so grateful for every peaceful and good day. So many tumultuous things happening in our world. Despite colds and coughs and ups and downs, there is always something good to find.
Thinking about Elkanah and Hannah in 1 Samuel 1. Hannah was weeping because she wanted a son and Elkanah asks her why she is weeping and says, “Don’t I mean more to you than ten sons?” I’ve read different takes on this, but I always thought it was sweet of him. According to history and the culture, sons were very important to men, and I just think it is sweet how he tries to comfort her and say he is there for her. Verse 5 tells us Elkanah loved Hannah and verse 6 tells us that Peninnah kept provoking Hannah to irritate her. Of course, I think the whole idea of more than one wife, is not a brilliant idea whatsoever. It is just a set up for disaster!!! 🙂
Anyway, I’ve always like Elkanah’s trying to care for Hannah and cheer her, despite her longing for a child.
And I thought about the dear man I get to share life with and how dear he is to me! More than ten sons! 🙂 {And not just because he shares his phone with me, so I can have Instagram} And I wish this for marriages and women everywhere. Just to celebrate the spouse God has given us and just to work on being the right one for each other and growing closer and defeating Satan and his attempts to break up homes and marriages.
I heard a Bible teacher say once, “If you are married, HE is the right one!!” I read a blog post a few weeks back that summed things up somewhat this way, although in my own words, “There’s how many people in the world? Out of all these people, there probably isn’t necessarily one soulmate for you. But when you choose to get married and you become married, you then become a soulmate to each other. To that person you chose to marry and do life with. Because you had a choice!”
All right. There’s a bit of scattered thoughts and ideas out of my head and some of the bits and pieces from our week last week that make up our story.
I’ve been thinking about that, too. How we all have stories! And how fun stories are. And how unique. Stories matter. Experiences matter. Big or little. Mediocre or mighty. Life changing or steady sameness.
Have a good week. And if it’s cold where you are, and if you get cold like I do, I hope your week includes some hot drinks!!!!!
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