September 17, 2007

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  Today is a more typical Oklahoma Indian summer day.  Temps will reach near 90 degrees and stay there for the rest of the week.  I'm enjoying the sun streaming through the windows.

  I had taken down my formal living room sheers and curtains and washed them, as well as the mini blinds.  It has taken me 4 weeks to get everything put back up.  I have 3 sets of windows (kind of bay window style) in the dining room and I had managed to get the sheers back up, but only one set of the drapes.  A few minutes ago, I hung the last two sets of drapes and things look balanced again.

  I (finally) packed up my pastel spring floral arrangement centerpiece.  I moved a purple (my dining room is eggplant walls with cream drapes) dried flowers/berries arrangement in a crystal bowl from the formal living room to the dining room table.  It will be what I keep on that table until December.  It isn't a lot of change, but I feel like I did a little something to celebrate the arrival of fall.

  Yesterday, I finally finished moving the fall clothes into the girls' closet and snuck the yellow sundresses with dragonflies or bumblebees out of the closet!!!  I'm saving the winter dresses in another closet until it really gets cold.  I can't find their 2 boxes of dresses from last year and think they must have made it up to the attic.  Jesse isn't feeling well (same cough and chest congestion as Rissy and I), so I will wait to ask him to climb up to the attic and look.  It's not like we need the boxes this week with the warmer temps.  If I remember, they are sitting at the top of the attic stairs.

  I'm also dutifully burning all of my older candles - before they lose their fragrance!  Some were leftover from last fall and need to be burned and then repurchased.  I have a few apple scented jar candles (from Wal-Mart) and they are perfect for fall.  They smell like baskets of fresh picked apples are sitting in my kitchen.

  Last night, I washed my basket of potholders that I use as hot plates on the kitchen table.  I've collected a potholder here and there over the past 10-12 years.  Since they are used as hot plates, they don't have to match or be coordinated with my kitchen stuff.  I feel like little areas around my house are perking up from the attention I'm giving to different rooms.  It's all dependent on "as I have the strength" and I'm doing little things to make a difference; but still, keeping chores to a minimum.

  I didn't feel so great for about 4 days last week, but yesterday and today I'm feeling much better, again.  Since I've done a few chores around here today, I have a simple barbecue beef on buns meal planned for our dinner.  Easy to fix and easy to clean up.  Besides, the girls think I'm a "great cook" whenever I fix pre-made foods! (rolling my eyes)

  Speaking of food, I have 3 tomatoes left on the vines in the backyard and I'm hoping, with this warm weather, they will ripen before the bugs or birds eat them.  My cherry tomato plants have tons of little yellow flowers (due to the recent warm temps) and I'll be surprised if we actually see tomatoes from them. 

  I finally faced the new textbooks (except for Rissy's math and English books) and found I'm excited about the new subject matter.  As always, they came with more than adequate instructions.  Too many instructions, actually.  I was glad to see that the geography book will be touching on the continents and larger countries around the world.  I had planned to introduce those things before I ever ordered books for this year.  I can't wait to get our new globe out of its box!  Such strange words from one who detested geography and history in school (a hundred years ago!)!!!

  I guess that's all the exciting news that's happened over the past few days in my house.  I feel so blessed to be doing the things I'm doing.  A big change from how I felt last month!

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