Weekend Wrap-Up

This has been a good weekend. Friday night after work hubby and I came home and ordered supper in. It was so cold that day that all we wanted to do was just be home. It was a good evening. We had our dinner and then hubby went in and played with his computer. I mostly watched some TV and played on my iPad and then went to bed early. 

Rebecca Jo at Knit By God's Hand has been talking about watching the old TV show "Gilmore Girls". I had seen a few episodes here and there and always sort of liked it, but just had never watched it that much. Anyway, I decided to give it a go this weekend. I must say, I'm really enjoying the first season a lot. I think I've watched the first seven shows so far. It's pretty good and very funny.  Thanks Rebecca for reminding me of this show. 

Saturday our puppy got us up early. We got cleaned up and just stuck around the house doing some things. Later we went to lunch at a Chinese Buffet we just recently learned about. It was really good. We then ran an errand and went back home. I did some knitting while watching the movie "The Notebook" for the first time. Oh my, it made me cry. I can't believe I've never seen that before. Then we picked up some dinner and took it to my parents and visited with them for a bit. Then back home and some more knitting.

Sunday we had a great service at church. Then lunch and home for my favorite thing...a Sunday afternoon nap.

 I completed two knitted headband/ear warmers this weekend. I should be getting them added to my Etsy shop real soon.  I also finished the book I was reading. This is my favorite kind of week-end. A little TV, reading, knitting, napping and just being with my man. 

So, how was your weekend?

Thankful Thursday

Rebecca Jo at Knit by God's Hand is hosting a new meme called Thankful Thursday where we share things we are thankful for.   If you'd like to join in and share your thanks also, you can click here to get to her site.

I have so many things to be thankful for and here are a few I'll share.  This week I think I'll do it mostly with pictures.

One of my favorite ways to relax. Lucy sleeping on the foot rest of my recliner, watching TV, and knitting.

New house shoes.

A new Vera Bradley  blanket given to me by my girls.

The fact that when it feels like -9 outside I have a nice warm house to live in. God really has blessed us.

Another completed hat.  I was planning to put this in my Etsy shop, but I love the colors and I think I may keep this one for myself.  I just started working on a matching scarf last night.

A nice hot cup of hot white chocolate.  Yummy!  Especially when I went into work this morning and the heat was out in my part of the building.  It was 57 degrees.

I'm thankful for this little smiling electric heater too.  It helped with the cold office too.  Thankfully, the heat is working again and all is good again. 

I'm also very thankful for a blogging buddy who encourages me to be thankful by hosting this Thankful Thursday Meme.  Thanks Rebecca Jo!  So now, what are you thankful for?

SSMT

 This year I've really felt God drawing me to do the Beth Moore Siesta Scripture Memory Team thing. I really didn't want to do this because I've started a couple times and never followed through. I think in the past it was more me wanting to do the "in" thing. And besides scripture memory is hard. I know...whine, whine. lol

 But for some reason I feel God is calling me to participate in scripture memorization. It just seemed that I couldn't get away from it. And then when I was thinking about what to memorize, the 139th Psalm came to mind. Guess what! It has 24 verses. The exact number the SSMT memorizes each year. So yeah, I just have to do it. The first verse is "O LORD, you have examined my heart and know everything about me." Isn't that cool!! He knows me and yet He still loves me. That just amazes me.  

Here's to hoping I'll remember this truth along with the other 23 verses. And even more than the memorization that these verses will reveal more of the character of God to me. And that through this effort I'll draw even closer to my Heavenly Father. 

If you would like to participate, you can go to The LPM Blog.

Bluegrass and Snow

After work last night, hubby and I went to a little local pizzeria for supper and some good bluegrass music. Our friends, the Haddix Family were the singers. They are so good and we love to go whenever we can to hear them.

Not necessarily the best picture, but nevertheless the singing and the food was awesome, as always.

We got up this morning to lots of snow.  Well, lots of snow to me.  We probably have about 4-5 inches.  Hubby is working at home, but brought me to work so I didn't have to drive, nor walk too far in the snow.  He's such a sweetie. Here are a couple of pics of what it looks like outside my work windows.

It's supposed to drop down really cold tonight, so I'm glad the roads seem to be drying up pretty well.  Maybe there won't be to much ice.

So, how's the weather in your neck of the woods?

Weekend Wrap-Up

I took a long weekend. I just couldn't make myself come in for one day on Friday, so I took a vacation day. I love long weekends. We really didn't do anything big, but it was so nice to be off. I'm not really sure how I'm going to make myself work 5 days in a row now. haha

Thursday we just stayed home all day. We watched some TV and we worked on our non-existent filing system. We now have a filing system and hopefully it will help make life a little easier. Hubby pays the bills and now I will be scanning what we need to keep for tax purposes and shredding them. Hopefully, we will end up with a lot less paper in boxes (our old filing system lol) in our house. I also spent some time updating my Etsy account. I had a bunch of stuff made that I had never put on Etsy (check the pics and link in my sidebar. I'm getting a lot of views, but no sales yet. Hopefully soon. Now, I need to get back to my knitting and crocheting.

Friday, we went to Red Lobster for lunch and ran some errands. We spent most of the rest of the day at home. This may sound boring to some, but I get so little time at home, so I really enjoy it.

Saturday, I spent most of the day at my brother's house with my other siblings. We have to start going through things and deciding what to do with everything. It's really a very strange experience to go through someone else's house. Not something I really enjoy. But you gotta do what you gotta do. One thing I came home with was one of his hats. It's a camo hat with 2 tiny lights on the brim so he could see in the dark. I wore it all afternoon and evening that day and now it is hanging in my home. It makes me happy to have that hat. A friend told me later that he wore that hat whenever he went on a motorcycle ride with them and really loved it.

Saturday evening we met Kerri and Charlie for dinner and enjoyed just sitting and talking together.  Sunday was church and then Kerri and Charlie met us at my brother's and helped us move a couple of chairs and then they took our big red sectional sofa home with them. My livingroom is almost empty now. But it's kind of nice for a change. We'll get a love seat or something sometime in the future, but in the meantime I'm going to enjoy it like it is.

So now it's Monday morning and back to a regular work week. Hope you all had a great beginning to 2015.