November 16, 2009

• "It Feels Like 28°"

  The words in my title for today aren't my own. 

  That's a quote from the National Weather Channel's web service!  It's *really* 37° right now, and I don't know that I feel a whole lot better with that bigger number!  . . . . 28° . . . 37° . . . .It's just plain C-O-L-D!!!  Obviously their is a wind - a brisk wind, blowing today.

          

  Everyone is snuggled in warm clothes and sitting in the den around the fireplace.  The chill of the morning is a kicker and is the first real "chilled morning" we've had, so far.

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  I am rereading a book I've owned for a couple of years.  It's a short, but GOOD, one.  I brought it out to the den last night to curl up with in the corner of the sofa - the end closest to the fireplace(!!!) - and enjoy reading!

        
                                                  Rissy has "my spot" this morning!
                                             (Notice her sweatpants under her gown?)

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  Jesse is helping a friend put in a new furnace in someone's house (the neighbor across the street who also has cancer) and was gone a lot this weekend.  He had a garden job (take out a bush, suck up leaves, move some dirt) on Saturday, then, on Sunday night, he and our heat/air friend looked at the neighbor's house.  The started tearing out the old unit and building a platform (box) for the new unit, which will arrive today.  I can't imagine their house with no heat.  It really is quite nippy outside!  When Jesse gets off of work this evening, he and his friend will install the new furnace in all its glory!

       
                        Luci has the right idea.  Sweat pants and a spot close to the fireplace!

  I've been playing the "Music of the Season" cable TV channel during the day for background music.  We love the early start on Christmas music.  We make sure it's turned off when Jesse comes home.  He just doesn't get into "the season" as early as us girls do!  Everyone is humming through their chores singing "O Little Town of Bethlehem" and "Joy to the World" and it's coming from every corner of the house as the girls scatter about, here and there!

         
                   As you can see, the homeschool corner (in our kitchen) is also the indoor "wood pile" -
                                                     nothing like dry logs close at hand!

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  Today I will clear off my desk of photo albums.  I'll put mine back in the garage and leave Stephanie's two albums out to be labeled. 

  And the Target boxes . . . Oh, the Target boxes!!!  I need to either wrap them, or put them in the garage!  I'd like to wrap them and be done with them except for ribbon. 

  I simple don't have the strength to stand over the dining room table and wrap box after box this year, like I'm a department store's "Holiday Village!"

                      

  I have two doctor appointments at the end of the week.  One on Thursday (a follow up with the radiation oncologist) and Friday morning (with the regular oncologist and the chemo room for my bone medicine IV) which will be the longer appointment of the two. 

  We will make the most of those two days, being out and away from home, and try to finish buying whatever we need for Thanksgiving, for sure.  I imagine this weekend, and the early days of next week, will be dreadfully crowded in the stores.

  We had invited Jesse's nephew and his wife & four girls from Florida, but we never heard from them, so I guess they aren't coming.  Jesse's brother & sil (from SE OK) are coming, and I think we will invite his mother and his aunt & uncle to join us.   Everyone can help by bringing a little something, and I'll take more of a back seat, this year, in the kitchen.  Rissy has watched me carefully for the past two years and I think she can make the turkey stuffing with minimal help from me.

             

  Meanwhile, I think I'll hang out by the fire for a while and go over the school lesson plans for today.  This is our last full week of school.  We'll only have school on Monday and Tuesday of next week. 

  Rissy is in the kitchen making pancakes for her sisters and I've been eating her leftover oatmeal muffins, as I type. 

  Later today, we're going to bake a new cookie (new to our family, anyway) and test it.  It's called Chocolate Crackle cookies.  Looks interesting.  If they turn out well, we may make enough to freeze for Christmas.

  Now *that* is really planning ahead!

  Be Blessed  ~

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