Daybook on the Thursday before Thanksgiving

Outside my window...
is a beautiful and crisp (for southern CA!) fall morning.  My dogs keep peering at my through the french doors, begging for a walk.

I am thinking...
about adoption


I am thankful...
for my husband and his kind and generous servant heart.

From the learning rooms...
Botany today...the kids and I are using Apologia's Elementary Botany curriculum.  We are beginning the lesson on pollination.  

In the kitchen...
brownies!!  Thursdays we host a bible study in our home for college students, so snacks for the group are a must.  One of our students gave me a brownie recipe on Sunday for the brownies she made for my birthday.  One of the guys in our group announced that they were the best brownies he had ever tasted...perhaps some of those are in order today! 

I am wearing...
a mishmash of old Christmas jammies.
  
I am creating...
this blog.  Trying to find regular time to write and learning how to choose what I will write from all of the swirling ideas and thoughts in my head and heart.  I am an regular reader of many blogs and I have to work at being myself in this process.


  I am going...
to have to take these dogs for a walk soon!!!


I am wondering...
where we will put our Christmas tree this year.  We need to do some serious rearranging in our living room very soon!

I am reading...
Laddie by Gene Stratton Porter on my kindle; Time Cat by Lloyd Alexander at night as a family, lots of adoption related things.  Those may merit their own post sometime soon.

I am hoping...
for a smooth start to our learning day.  Some of us are morning people around here...some are not!

I am looking forward to...
printing our family profiles and sending them off to our adoption agency.  We are waiting for the OK from our social worker and then they will be printed.

I am hearing...
my husband typing on the keyboard across the room.

Around the house...
I need to finish painting our living room.  Perhaps in the process, we will find the perfect furniture configuration to make room for a Christmas tree?

I am pondering...
plans for Thanksgiving and more plans for Christmas gifts.  Still searching for the perfect handmade Christmas goodie I can make for this year.  In the past I have done homemade mocha mix, adorable potpourri pies and easy handbags.  I am thinking peppermint bark...mmm.

One of my favorite things...
sitting with my daughter during her piano lessons, crocheting and helping as she needs me.

A few plans for the rest of the week:
end of the season soccer game, sleepover for my son at a friend's house and for my girls here at home. 


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