Christmas Daybook

FOR TODAY (DECEMBER 29,2008)...

Outside my window...Blue grey morning is opening up to a more or less cloudy clear day!! in other words we never know what the day will bring by the end of it. it cold snow!!! but there will be sun today too. anyway it is going to be a good day..

I am thinking...Wow, another year has almost slithered by with many things to accomplish that will be pushed into the next year, so many birthdays have happened in this month also and a couple of persons have been laid to rest in the cozy blanket of white snow to await the coming of a Saviour who will raise them up again and take them to heaven.

I am thankful for...safety, food, holidays, money, warmth and crisp winter air, family, and all the encouragement and grace that this embraces

From the learning rooms...(if this applies)

From the kitchen...I will be making cookies with my granddaughter to send to my sons who did not get home this year and because i was too busy before christmas they will get it now!!! They also had birthdays on Christmas day --twins and an older daugter --two years apart and on the same day. we will make a small batch of pancakes this morning too. maybe i will post a picture afterward.

Buttermilk Pankcakes

3/4 cup each of white and brown flour

big heaping tablespoon of brown sugar --- 2 tbsp!

1 tsp salt

1 tsp soda

1/4 cup of cornmeal

big dash of bran

mix all that and add

3 eggs

2-3 tbsp of oil

2 cups maybe 1/4 more of buttermilk

i like to add corn or blueberries or raspberrries also, we always put peanutbutter and applesauce on top or pearsauce which is blended up pears

I am wearing...PJs wrapped up in a blanket!!

I am creating...

I am going...for a walk around the block with my grand daughter, to the store and....we shall see

I am reading...the new devotional that my friend gave me for Christmas entitled 'Grace Notes' by ardis dick stenbakken

I am hoping...to print out a recipe book for my kids this year of all of my favorite recipies

I am hearing...the remnant of the Christmas music playing and the words that say Give Me Jesus! when i am alone give me Jesus. for in these moments we find the peace and strngth for the day. awesome thought.

Around the house...it is so nice to have my house sort of organized this holiday and to have the holiday time from work to do it. but there are still a bathroom to decorate and doors to rehang and skirting for the trailer will have to wait for summer. always something to do. and a blanket to stitch together

One of my favorite things...sitting in front of the pellet sove and enjoying the WARMTH. i can just feel the warm floor and the heat melting up to my legs!!!!!

A few plans for the rest of the week: just as listed above but i may make a trip or two to the city...

Here is picture thought I am sharing...()

one of those days

FOR TODAY (december 8....wow already it is so close to christmas and the end of the year and my kids birthdays...three of them)..

Outside my window...dark out and beyond that i can't see anything but the plastic on the windows

I am thinking...it would be nice to sit on this couch all day, i am tired after esterdays party preparations and stress of it all, i am sort f discuted with everyone as a program was planned and they were so rude to talk all the way thru it. guess i will have a meeting where everyone can just talk!!!! there i vented................

I am thankful for...for those who showed up though, and i am thankful for this couch and for the few moments in the morning to relax before work

From the learning rooms...humm what have i learned today........or what should i learn...possibly tat i should just let everybody do their own thing but then the meetings and purpose for the meetings will go down the drain, time to resign?????

From the kitchen...left over salad from last night for breakfast and i wish i had that apple charlotte, it was good

I am wearing...brown pjs and they have sheep printed on the bottoms-should i be sheepish about my comments!!!!

I am creating...a white gingerbread house from styrofoam

I am going...to get ready for work and then tonite is a church board meeting that will have leftover decorations and food from last nite

I am reading...bible and lesson on the computer

I am hoping...that i will survive the next week full of parties

I am hearing...the dryer just quit and the alarm on my phone just rang and now there is silence but for the clicking of fingernails on these keys

Around the house...oh my there is always lots to dom it never ends, but i will probably just leave everything till next week or something during the holidays we have two weeks so that is when i will decorate the house for next year haah just kidding hahah

One of my favorite things...pink monkey

A few plans for the rest of the week:going to dye my hair pink

Here is picture thought I am sharing...()

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TEDDY BEARS

FOR TODAY (November 24)...

Outside my window...dark sky thru plastic on the windows, can't see too much yet

I am thinking...that it is slightly cold in here, the stove is still going but i am going to let it go out so i can clean it this evening. i will use the propane instead today

I am thankful for...everymorning i wake up thankful for the God in heaven who supplies all my nds and that i can turn to Him and know He is alive and is the one constant thing in this whole universe that is true and good and able

From the learning rooms...(if this applies) i am sitting on my couch and i should learn to get off of it more often hahahha!!!!

From the kitchen...salad, grapefruits, and soup for today, subway for the wed and thurs....

I am wearing...ditto from all the other weeks!!!!!

I am creating...a Christmas look for the house this week and sewing curtains

I am going...to work

I am reading...my bible lesson on the internet

I am hoping...to make decisions this week on going to bolivia and also tat the roads will be clear by wed to travel into town

I am hearing...snow fall down off the roof, the pellet drop down in the stove and the fans going, a vehicle just drove by, a train whistles and rumbles by, the wind is blowing, my! a busy morning already

Around the house...still the electrical to get done in the addition

One of my favorite things... is this picture on facebook that everybody is buying, i posted a pic of a brown and white teddy bears sitting together and it has gone over and over again

A few plans for the rest of the week:just to get a program going for the ladies meeting on te seventh of dec.

Here is picture thought I am sharing...(

just a picture today----says it all

FOR TODAY (november 17)...

Outside my window...well this morning we woke up to five inches of snow making things a very pretty winter wonderland. absolutely lovely. so i walked to the window and took a picture. and very warm out for this time of year.

I am thinking...it would be so nice to stay at home today instead of going to work but there are so many tings to do and no time to do it in.

I am thankful for...for the freedom to pray and for the coice to do so. i am thankful for the Spirit and his leading

From the kitchen...grapefruits and oranges from Florida just arrived, tey are so good and we look forward to them every winter season, just made a green salad with a peanut butter slice of bread!!! nuts and fruit for dinner...........sounds really appetizing doesn't it. i guess you could put it all tgether and have a Thai meal with noodles.....getting better eh!!

I am wearing...blue pjs right now as it will soon be time for bed and then the start of another day

I am creating...not much
I am going...go turn on the pellet stove, it is getting chilly sitting here

I am reading...nothing

I am hoping...to get all my papers arranged to go to bolivia this february, we booked our hotel for vancouver already and pacific dental conference is coming up so our flights will be the next thing to book

I am hearing...the snow fall off the roof, the TV, cooktop beeping telling me there is something on the stove....that is so aggravating!!!it makes me always hae a tidy stove......hahha

Around the house...are Christmas decorations to sort out

One of my favorite things...my cozy, crazy, unmatched living room with plants all over

A few plans for the rest of the week:mail passport, mail curt his money, put in a christmas present, buy his laptop, birthday for my grandson who is one year old, get the Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes out, and get ready to go to smithers already. i am wiped already besides that i have to phine a hundred people.

Here is picture thought I am sharing...

A new day

FOR TODAY (november 10)...

Outside my window...dark as usual but will get light in about an hour and then the sun will light up the mountains and then it will rain again hahah but it was cold last night so i guess we will have some nice weather today i will let you know.....

I am thinking...one more day to work and then a day off for Remembrance Day

I am thankful for...my children and their children, for the comfort we find in family and the ability to help them, Praising God for his mercy toward us

From the learning rooms...(if this applies)it does --because each room we go to in the home or the memory we have of things that happened, or the great outdoors, i learn to be forgiving and to look on others as the Masters children

From the kitchen...just Shreddies for breakfast again and Spinach salad for dinner. tomorrow i will make some asparagas soup

I am wearing...pink pjs as usual and scrubs for today

I am creating...a scrapbooking page for the ladies journal

I am going...to have a hot bath before work

I am reading...the man;y magazines for ideas on a christmas party for the ladies

I am hoping...that everything will turn out in the end and everyone will have fun. i am hoping to buy a house or property and that my son will come home to canada to build it!!!!!!!

I am hearing...the furnace and the tapping of the computer keys, the silence of the room and my mind going on what i have to do today---hahhahah

Around the house...is the grandkids bike, papers on the couch to sort out, dishes to wash from this morning and geraniums to water and the hearth to put together
One of my favorite things...facebook contacts and my other blog

A few plans for the rest of the week: maybe my pellet stove will come which should have been here last week, no special things happening other than that

Here is picture thought I am sharing...

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Monday, November 3, 2008

For Today... it is early and the second day for the time change and it seems lots of people are still wide awake this time of the morning..... it is 5'30 am or actually 4'30. a couple of hours to go before we have to get ready for work.

Outside my Window...it is still dark--i am a morning person i always get up early and go to bed late too for that matter!!! It has been raining all night again and am wondering if our Christmas will be white or brown

I am thankful for.....my home, and property, i enjoy the beauty of its surrounding area the the people who are around me. i am thakful for Gof in heaven who has granted me health, and riches and protection and for the saving power in his life giving hands. Do you know the song that Ivan Parker sings.....Saved by the hands

From the kitchen...a quart of warm blueberry tea and Shreddies for breakfast again! Schneider's puts out a real nice fake chicken made with soy protein that is actually very good called Oh Natural........will make a nice chicken burger for dinner.

I am wearing... right now pink nite shirt with little white lambs but later scrubs again--that's my life! although the seminar last week said that for the uptown lifestyle in a dental office, you can wear co-ordinated colors on certain days! but different styles and not scrubs! lab coats???NO.

I am reading...Victoria, Martha Stewart, i have magazines i have saved for 20 years that i am looking thru. time to thow some away i guess but some of them have such nice pictures in them. or i could cut them out and scrapbook---a good idea! i wonder where you all get your antique pics from......

I am hearing...now it is the fridge fan!!!!! and one of the wall clocks steadily ticking. don't think i have changed all of them yet!!!1

Around the house.....For the third time i have lost my bank card and this morning i thought i lost it again. Something strange is going on here but not really because i just happened to empty the contents of my purse in a box and put it away where i would not forget--hahah---and after searching a few places this morning found it again. That was a relief!!!! Time to sort thru Christmas decorations.......here is a setting i used a couple years or so ago for a ladies meeting....

I am actually going to sort thru some of my books and give them away

I am creating----I am going to work on making a catherdral quilt and a truck birthday cake for the grand boy who will be one in a couple of weeks

One of my favorite things...pictures of my kids and grandkids

Few Plans For The Rest Of The Week...going to have my car detailed this week and its winter oil change, wipers too.

Here is a picture thought I am sharing with you...

have a good week everybody.............!!!!

same old same old

Monday, October 27, 2008

For Today...blackbirds and christmas

Outside my Window...it is still dark

From the kitchen...a quart of warm blueberry tea

I am wearing... scrubs again

I am reading...cooking magazines and christmas recipies--looking at biscotti, food gifts in a jar with decorated tops, sewing table runners, and tiny quiches

I am hearing...the furnace jiggling fan

Around the house.....I have to change the water faucets outside so they don't reeze. I would love someone to build me a small shed for the car. oh well!! make sure the skirting is intact for the winter

things never change around here but i did get some leaves raked before the rake broke!!! have to buy a new one today

One of my favorite things...pink snap dragons and purple something flowers that i brought in from the porch, they might bloom for a little while in the house---still blooming. the white christmas cactus is blooming now and i only have two or three blossoms on the red one. i think it needs repoting as some large branches fill off....

Few Plans For The Rest Of The Week...humm have to think about that just work--getting two tons of wood pellets today, cleaned out the porch yesterday

Here is a picture thought I am sharing with you...

work and play

For Today...it is the start of a new week and I am going to like it rain or SNOW or with or with out sunshine!!

Outside my Window...is a bright sunshinny day with grey clouds that threaten to bring down snow or slush! Green and yellow leaves glisten in the sun and with a slight breeze leaves are shuffling here to there. It is beautiful

From the kitchen...fresh asparagras soup made in a hurry with water onions, celery, chicken seasoning and boil just until barely done, then put in the blender. it leaves a rather chunky version of soup but that is okay, add a dab of cream and there you have it-- Soup before i rush off to work!!!

I am wearing...new scrubs again

I am reading...martha stewagetting ideas for a ladies meeting

I am hearing...the furnace jiggling fan

Around the house.....I have to change the water faucets outside so they don't reeze. I would love someone to build me a small shed for the car. oh well!! make sure the skirting is intact for the winter

One of my favorite things...pink snap dragons and purple something flowers that i brought in from the porch, they might bloom for a little while in the house

Few Plans For The Rest Of The Week...humm have to think about that just work

Here is a picture thought I am sharing with you...

remember those days!!!.........................

daybook time

we were helping dad clean out the stove.....................below is the clean version......

Monday, October 6, 2008

For Today...monday ~~Good Morning!!!

Outside my Window...is dark, cloudy, hear a train in the distance, car drove by otherwise there is silence and leaves all over the place

I am thankful for...for the priviledge of being out of debt, that i was able to help the kids in a small way, for two part time jobs, one or the other should keep me going in this recession

In the kitchen...blueberry tea as always, buckwheat berries that have been soaked over night, rinsed, with raisins and bananas, with hemp milk on top for breakfast, salad for dinner and probably for supper too

I am wearing...Scrubs again.

I am reading...my bills

I am creating...an apron made out of black and white striped material and lace-you can see it on the other blog

I am hearing...dryer, water dripping and my stove has an annoing beep beep because i left something on it, i must turn it off!!

Around the house...trying to decide whether to put in a pellet or ordinary wood stove for heat

One of my favorite things...pink striped curtains with pink lace!! actually it is a dusty rose color and the stripes have a bit of brown in it

A Few Plans For The Rest Of The Week..re organize my house again after jaimie moving, we moved more of her stuff today. making josie a birthday cake which will be on the 7th she will be six years old !!!!!!

A picture thought.... these are some photos when i was a little girl and there are a couple of my sisters also. we were born in Oshawa, ont. and lived in a renovated garage.

Daybook for September 29

For Today...monday ~~Well it is actually evening now

Outside my Window...the day has been so beautiful and clear and warm. everone was saying why do we have to work or why can't we see our patients outside!!! I am sure protocol does not allow us but if given an individual choice no one would mind!!! But we are stuck inside with no windows and peoples' comments on the weather or as some did-not show up!!! Now it is a clear dusky sky that promises to be another warm day. Golden leaves are fallen on a green lawn and the garden begs to be retilled.

I am thankful for...for a God who is patient with us when we make mistakes and tr to make decisions on our own. How He patiently works around us trying to iron out each circumstance. I am thankful for the presence of Christ in our lives.

In the kitchen...

Blueberry tea, spinach/banana smoothie that i didn't finish which will probably go to the compost worms!!!, salad, just something simple for the only one at home--me!!

I am wearing...Scrubs still. there is a new pink and plack printed top with pink bias tape around the neck. it is pretty

I am reading...nothing really just listening to Amazing Discoveries by Walter Vieth on last day events of this world, my bible lesson on line

current lesson

I am creating...a space in this silent room by where i sit

I am hearing...hummm walter vieth talking and making dry jokes

Around the house...Jaimie's stuff is still in places around the house and Josies room has little girl stuff all over the floor!! We are waiting to see what she does in the next couple of days.

One of my favorite things...my large pink coffee mugs that now has cold Caf-lib in it because i am writing this blog~~

A Few Plans For The Rest Of The Week...well i think i am going to keep on dreaming instead of buying a new car. the economy is so unpredictable now it is scarry to go into debt over a car. i shall wait....................just another work week..........still have to get out my pink blog for womens ministry ladies which is three weeks late because i have too much going on in my house right now. washing carrots!!! braiding onions and cooking beets........

A picture thought.......