Grandmother Wren

Outside my window… a beautiful sunny day – a perfect September day making its appearance on the last day of August – a taste of the season to come.

I am thinking… that it will be another busy week. I am thinking that I should probably get used to the thought that every week will be a busy week.

I am thankful for… everything - “giving thanks always for all things unto God”

From the learning rooms… our little one is delighted with kindergarten. I knew she would be. Now we need to schedule our mornings and late afternoons to include the projects that we do together. We have a diorama to finish and have ready to exhibit at the county fair in a couple of weeks.

From the kitchen… I’ll be spending time this evening planning our menu for the next couple of weeks. I thought it would be fun to use the school lunch menu for the month as a starting point. Or not. They do seem to feature a lot of cheese pizza…

I am wearing… jeans, a cream tee shirt, madras overshirt, bare feet. It’s cool enough for jeans again!

I am creating… a pair of mommy size slippers to match the tiny socks I finished knitting over the weekend.

I am going… nowhere special this week. (That’s just a lie. I have a doctor’s appointment on Wednesday to get last month’s test results and find out what the next plan of action will be. I’m pretending that’s not happening – la, la, la. )

I am reading… Woman of Grace by Michaelann Martin

I am hoping… still hoping to get a date pinned down for our move. I talked with the senior housing office this morning. First the woman said we could plan on October 1 – but then – oh, wait a minute – don’t we want a unit that allows dogs?
Yes…we do.
Oh, dear. That might take a little longer…
She’ll have the leasing office call me back this afternoon.
Sigh…

Faith is not hard for me to sustain, but patience is. Very. I’m not enjoying this lesson.

I am hearing… my birthday gift Praise and Worship CDs playing beside me, Russ behind me working on a new dollhouse at the kitchen table.

Around the house… the sorting and clutter clearing is moving along nicely. Maya is claiming many of the “treasures” that I’m releasing. Looks like my daughter will have a decluttering project in her future too.

One of my favorite things… quiet afternoons knowing that Maya is happily at school.

A few plans for the rest of the week: grocery shopping, website work, a trip to the library, maybe I’ll clear the craft closet this weekend and then again, maybe I won’t.

Here is picture thought I am sharing…

More finished Christmas projects from the One Skein Wonders book – a bath set and a pair of tiny socks

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It is Because…

1. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Sydney J. Harris

2. The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.
Author Unknown

3. The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
Ralph W. Sockman

4. What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
George Bernard Shaw

5. Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
Abbé Dimnet

6. Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats

7. Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.
Daniel J. Boorstin

8. The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
Bishop Mandell Creighton

9. You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.
Clay P. Bedford

10. The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
Mortimer Adler

11. Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
Chinese Proverb

12. You learn something every day if you pay attention.
Ray LeBlond

13. Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.
Vernon Howard

Grammy and Abraham Lincoln agree – “I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”

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The kids are back in school and what comes after school?
After school snacks, of course.
If you started school in 1960 (like Grandmother Wren did!) you might have made a snack like this…

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This Week’s Topic – What is a favorite “alone time” activity?

This is what I have missed the most in the thirteen months since we moved from our house to this apartment – my favorite alone time activity – walking with my dog on the trails through the woods.

This is what I will have again in a few short (but they will seem long to me) weeks. Now that we’ve been told that we are at the top of the waiting list for Senior Housing (do I dare let myself believe that is true?) I will again have a dog as my walking companion. I will have long times alone near the water with a dog by my side.

I have been blessed and I am grateful.
I won’t forget.

Here are some pictures from the trail that runs behind the Senior Housing complex.

It all leads so nicely to Word Filled Wednesday and the verses that have been in my heart this week.

Be glad in the Lord at all times: again I say, Be glad.
Let your gentle behaviour be clear to all men. The Lord is near.
Have no cares; but in everything with prayer and praise put your requests before God.
And the peace of God, which is deeper than all knowledge, will keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
For the rest, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things have honour, whatever things are upright, whatever things are holy, whatever things are beautiful, whatever things are of value, if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, give thought to these things.
Philippians 4, verses 4-8

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