HAPPY HOMEMAKER MONDAY
Hello beautiful Friends! Did you have a nice cozy weekend?
It was a fun one here! Mr. Matt came up to hang out with me. ♥️ We had fun going to some restaurants and eating some amazing food! He's a foodie like I am, and also enjoys cooking. Then visited some fun shops (including a cooking/food store) and an antique store. I showed him all around the area here. He came to my house and picked me up each day like a true gentleman. Even got my car door for me. Definitely not used to such treatment! And he thought of Annie and had us bring her a dessert home one night.
We had some wonderful long talks and he is the biggest sweetheart. I shared a bit about the broken parts in me...it's definitely still a process. But he is patient and understanding and we're just enjoying each other day to day. I can't wait until our next get together!!
So I'm diving in fully into my LIVE word for the year. I'm back to working out more. Been doing more spiritually - diving into the Word and journaling. Working on etsy projects. And this week I'm going to work on tackling my bedroom closet and dressers and purge and organize.
I look forward to all the living ahead....
THE WEATHER OUTSIDE IS:
ON THE BREAKFAST PLATE THIS MORNING:
yogurt, coffee
ON MY TO DO LIST:
hospice work, cleaning & organizing, having someone look at a leak in my bedroom ceiling, errands, take a friend out for her birthday, get ready for girlfriend Christmas, etsy projects
AS I LOOK AROUND THE HOUSE
It feels cozy on this freezing day. The sun is streaming in and it's days like this I'm happy for all of the windows and the light and warmth they let in.
CURRENTLY READING
Twisted Tea Christmas by Laura Childs And some Longfellow poems from a book I picked up at the antique store
ON THE TV TODAY:
Ted Lasso, This is Us, New Amsterdam, The Rookie, Amazing Race, Ghosts, Shark Tank
ON THE MENU THIS WEEK:
MONDAY - salad bar night with grilled chicken
TUESDAY - creamy tomato soup with grilled cheese croutons, fruit
WEDNESDAY - pasta with marinara, caesar salad
THURSDAY - pecan crusted chicken with honey mustard sauce and lemony apple salad (HF meal)
FRIDAY - one pan cheesy beef tortilla melts (Annie's with no beef) with green pepper & spicy crema (HF meal)
TO RELAX THIS WEEK I WILL:
read, craft, work on playing the harp ♥️
TIPS OR SOMETHING TO SHARE:
FROM THE CAMERA:
Keeping cozy with comfort food on the really cold days (slow cooker pot roast)
It was so fun finding some treasures at the antique store. Matt obviously had fun being a goofball. 😊 But I think he enjoyed that I shared some of my knowledge from all the years of going to them and the different collections I've learned about through the years. I grabbed this old German calendar top that's embossed and so pretty. I loved the northwoods look to it and the pretty church. I'm going to frame it and use it as a decoration to put out next Christmas. I also grabbed an old edition of Longfellow poems, and some old postcards to use in crafting. Some still had the writing on the back! So fun to imagine the story behind them.
Matt got me this yummy tea at the kitchen store and it's SO good! I love how adding a splash of milk made the color so pretty.
feeling very blessed for this great guy in my life ♥️
PRAYER LIST:
Prayers for gratitude and thankfulness for so many blessings. I pray for an end to the virus. For peace and unity everywhere. For health care workers, first responders and all those who work so hard to take care of others. I pray for anyone isolated, feeling alone, in pain or fear - that God comfort them and bring them healing and peace.