The Simple Woman's Daybook

The Simple Woman's Daybook

Outside my window.....barking dogs, clucking chickens and busy, sticky children all climbing the sap tree

I am thinking.....that oneday when we win the lottery...despite the fact we don't play it....that we'll be moving to Missouri. 4 bdrm, 3.5 ba, 7,000 sq ft, all hardwood and tile, 110 acres, 2 ponds, barn. And it rains there so the grass grows and we could have a cow, dairy goats, horses, and donkeys again and we wouldn't spend our life savings on chicken feed cause there's actually stuff on the ground for them to eat there.

I am thankful for.....the fact that our house is only 1,800 sq ft and so easy to keep clean and for the fact that people make covered cat litter boxes so a little 16 mo old girl is no longer digging in cat litter. Yuck, yuck, yuck!!!!

I am wearing....jeans and an L.A. Fire Dept t-shirt, socks, no shoes

I am remembering......that I need to cut the boys' hair before this weekend and city council husband has a city council meeting tonight..and I haven't seen him all day

I am going......to try not to be overwhelmed by all of the ideas going through my head....homeschooling, organization, schedule, chores, things that need to be done, different ways I could do things, and on and on and on.

I am reading.....the inside of my eyelids. If I could stay awake long enough I might finish all the other books I've started.

I am hoping......to plant a garden this spring

I am hearing.......a very busy little 16 month old crunching up cat food and hollering at everybody else on the other side of the door to let her out too.

On my mind.....that oneday we will adopt from Colombia and the Philippines and maybe even Africa

Noticing that......despite the fact we did have a girls room and a boys room they are all back in one room again because they can't stand being separated. It's fine. Only one room to clean instead of two.

Pondering these words.....I'm too tired to ponder much of anything right now....but I like to think I ponder deep, meaningful stuff despite the fact it all eludes me at the present moment.

From the kitchen......brown rice and salmon with spinach salad

Around the house......open windows, wind blowing, clean bathrooms, organized closets, kinda clean floors and an overall productive day pretty much.

One of my favorite things.....places I've never been.....all of the unknown still waiting to be discovered

From my picture journal......does anybody want one???? Actually, the black one's already promised to Mother, the black and white sleeping one we're keeping and the awake one is up for grabs.