daybook

may 3

outside my window...a storm is looming. Should rain all day today and some weatherreports call for snow...NOOO! My strawberries were just planted!!!

 

I'm listening to...a stray cat mewling

 

I'm wearing...white jeans, blue short-sleeved turtleneck sweater and denim wedges with wooden heels and big bows on the toes.

 

I am reading..."One Thousand Gifts" by Ann Voskamp. I have been reading her blog http://www.aholyexperience.com/

for a long time and this book is really inspiring.

http://onethousandgifts.com/

from the kitchen...a menu for our guests that come over on Saturday. They are vegetarian family of 5 so I think I will do a buffet of all sorts of veggie appetizers like hummus and a bean layer dip, grilled eggplant, pasta salad etc...

 

I am creating....a family fitness game. We are hoping to get our kids exercising more, especially during Camp Coyan this summer. So I am making a huge race track board and giving points and rewards for exercising.

I am hoping...to smile more. My youngest says I don't smile enough. I think I will address this in tomorrow's post.

 

Our memory verse this week... James 1:17

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.

  

I am praying...for my heart to be changed by Christ's resurrection. That today I will not go back to status quo but will continue to sing Hallelujah.

"We are the Easter people and Hallelujah is our song!" Pope John Paul II

around the house...rethinking the bunk bed scenario in the girls' room. When we moved here Rebekah was 9 and Roxie was 5. Bunkbeds were a great option. Rebekah is now 13 and the top bunk wiggles as she jumps on and off of it and the way beds are made here the slats are just resting on grooves and could easily fall on Roxie while she is in the bottom bunk. Methinks another solution must be found.

 

one of my favourite things...getting up the courage to make all of our doctor appointments and being able to cross that off my to do list. (It takes courage because conversing in Czech over the phone with a receptionist who is none too sympathetic with poor language skills and who speaks so fast as to render her unintelligible is not for the faint of heart)

 

a few plans for the rest of the week...teach English to a private student who is going to the States on vacation, hair appointments, dinner at the school director's house on Thursday, Bible Study, guests for lunch on Saturday...a busy week. 

a picture thought...

 

Roxie standing in front of the tree of the year 2008 in Římov