Daybook, May Edition: 5.20.13 or 5/2013

I decided I wanted to link up with...

The Simple Woman's Daybook  today.   It's a creative meme to help us capture the bits and pieces of our lives--pieces  large and small, practical and heartfelt, settled or confusing, ordinary or extraordinary.  If you're stuck in a rut or just want to convey what's going on in your here-and-now, please consider writing a Daybook of your own. Be sure to leave a comment and then link up in the neighborly  way by saying hi  to another daybooker or two.  

Because I like numbers so much, and words so much more, I will use today's date, 5/20/13, and structure my answers to have 5, 20, or 13 words each. Let's see if I can pull this off. 



FOR TODAY

Outside my window... a lawnmower hums, a robin sings, and the sun is graces us Marylanders with 79 degrees. Love this May weather!

I am thinking... "God, please give me strength."

I am thankful... for  my beautiful, godly daughter. 

In the kitchen... the floor shines and smells of Mop & Glo,  Chicken wings await seasonings: Old Bay, teriyaki, and BBQ.  Sound good?

I am wearing... rust top, black pants, glasses.

I am creating... tab top curtains using yellow tweed with a plaid pattern which makes cutting and sewing

a breeze with built-in lines.. 

I am going...to Joann Fabrics tomorrow with a friend who has generously offered to make my mother-of-the-groom dress--free! 

I am wondering... if you can spy what's creepy here? I nearly dialed 911 over this. 

I am reading... Child of the Holocaust.   Still. 

I am hoping... to  finish making the ringbearer pillow by tomorrow evening,  and present it to my  almost-daughter upon completion of finals. 

I am looking forward to... blogging the big reveal of my guest/craft room that I've been working on since my daughter vacated the premises.

I am learning... that pocket rod curtains are much less time-consuming to make, but lack the fun factor of tab-top ones.

Around the house...are dirty tennis balls, thanks to a certain Golden who refuses to carry them to the  basket in the garage.

I am pondering...how time goes faster when blogging than when doing laundry. Or dishes. Or ...

A favorite quote for today...

"Do you pray for strippers to get saved? ? Drug addicts?  Muslims?"
  --Pastor Crawford, Freedom Church Baltimore

One of my favorite things...  WAS our  convertible, sold Saturday. Loved to ride in it on days like this. But like me...leakage issues. :(

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A few plans for the rest of the week: 

Prep for school art show, attend our 11-year-old's music performance, help our  soon-married son move out.  Cry,

A peek into my day...

After school, I was craving this. But my favorite local dairy  is closed Mondays.  Call it God's grace, not self-control !