daybook

january 18
 

outside my window...the heat wave is over(?). Everything is frozen solid. No snow, just a fine coating of ice.

I'm listening to...my dryer...fixed after three months. YAHOO!! (we still hang all of our clothes to dry, but this makes easy work of sheets and towels)

I'm wearing...a hot pink short-sleeved turtleneck fuzzy sweater, black pants a la Audry Hepburn and black ballet flats.

I'm pondering... Matthew 3: 3,11-12, 16-17

 

Thunder in the desert!
   Prepare for God's arrival!
   Make the road smooth and straight!

"I'm baptizing you here in the river, turning your old life in for a kingdom life. The real action comes next: The main character in this drama—compared to him I'm a mere stagehand—will ignite the kingdom life within you, a fire within you, the Holy Spirit within you, changing you from the inside out. He's going to clean house—make a clean sweep of your lives. He'll place everything true in its proper place before God; everything false he'll put out with the trash to be burned."

 

The moment Jesus came up out of the baptismal waters, the skies opened up and he saw God's Spirit—it looked like a dove—descending and landing on him. And along with the Spirit, a voice: "This is my Son, chosen and marked by my love, delight of my life."

 

I am reading..."Hater", one of my many zombie-type books with which I was gifted for Christmas...it is fantastic...

http://www.djmoody.co.uk/Hater.htm

 

from the kitchen...beef, broccoli and cashew stir-fry served over rice with lashings of soy sauce. Danny is an excellent cook. He also made carrot cake. I came home late from work and was treated to this!!

 
I am creating...a curriculum for Dental Hygiene Month

towards rhythm and beauty...the girls and I just started a daily devotional book that will last the entire year. Each morning we meet around the table to pray and recite our memory verse and read from the book.

I am hoping and praying...for a miracle.

around the house...many uses for a large box. Roxie has turned it into a robot costume, eyeholes, nose and mouth openings, armholes. She has actually spent whole evenings wearing it (Where is my camera? Can't find it.) She will dance and spin...and then knock stuff down due to the constrictive nature of wearing cardboard boxes. It's pretty funny. Rebekah also tried it on and danced an Irish jig. Hilarious.

one of my favourite things...a few moments to myself.

a few plans for the rest of the week...yucky doctor's appointment, make dentist appointment (c'mon Krista, stop being soooo lazy!, Bible Study, sleeping in on the weekend...I am really tired. I always am this time of year. It is dark a lot of the day and cold. I feel like hibernating.

a picture thought...

Roxie and one of her best friends, Musau, in the cloakroom at school