I meant it when I said that the only lamb we’d be feasting on at my Seder would be Christ.
I really intended to serve beef (and beef only).
But lamb was the only meat (apart from ham) that I could find with a bone in it.
I’m sorry. I didn’t intend to lie.
We’ll be enjoying lamb (and beef) tomorrow night.
Usually, I have a super-abundance of ideas to blog about and not anywhere near enough days in which to put the blogging. That’s still probably true, but for the past several weeks I’ve had no time to organize my thoughts into blog format.
I’ve been saved by the never-ending Haggadah series (which was written as one long post about a month ago and then split into what you’ve gotten over the past several weeks)-but my pre-prepared posts have run out.
I’m officially on empty.
Enter the Simple Woman’s Daybook, a lovely look at what’s going on today.
Outside my window…
Darkness. Darkness when I left for work and darkness when I arrived back home.
I am thinking…
That self-pity is not an attractive look on me.
I am thankful…
That God loves me enough to bring me into difficult seasons.
In the kitchen…
Leftover dishes from the weekend.
I am wearing…
This evening’s dinner on my shirt. One of the (many) down-sides to eating on the run.
I am creating…
My Haggadah for the Seder I’ll be celebrating this weekend.
I am going…
Crazy.
I am wondering…
Whether I will be able to get enough done tomorrow to allow me to actually take off the day I allotted as vacation (to prepare for my Seder) this week.
I am reading…
Without a Doubt by Kenneth Richard Samples
I am hoping…
That I can wake up at a decent hour tomorrow morning.
I am looking forward to…
Going to a friend’s wedding in Colorado in a few weeks.
I am learning…
About Prader-Willi, the Trinity, and woodworking
Around the house…
Clothes that haven’t been laundered, sawdust and splinters from making some leaves for my dining room table, and a yard that’s begging for a cutting
I am pondering…
The number of hours in the day
A favorite quote for today…
“Your circumstances are not your life. Christ Jesus is your life.” ~Cindy
One of my favorite things…
A warm bath on a chilly night.
A few plans for the rest of the week:
Taking Friday off (maybe?), having 20+ over for a Seder, decorating some blown eggs (maybe?), and seeing my brother (but not his new wife, sad face) before he leaves for Okinawa
A peek into my day life…
You don’t want to see my day, unless you’re really keen on calculations of weight loss and tube feeding formulations or completing reports or auditing supplement use…
But I’m sure no one would ever NOT want to look when I’ve got a picture of the Little Miss to share.
She came up for my 27 Dresses birthday party a couple weeks back and I had fun taking pictures of her after the party was over.
Don’t forget to check out more daybooks here.
I recently purchased a Kindle (rather a shock to everyone, myself included) and have been doing a bit of browsing of the free books available in Kindle format.
Many of my favorite classics are available for free, for which I am immensely grateful–but I’ve also enjoyed looking at some books that I otherwise might never have picked up. Books like Mrs. Isabella Beeton’s The Book of Household Management.
I’m not sure exactly when The Book of Household Management was written, but it was sometime between 1836 and 1865, since that is the dates of Mrs. Beeton’s life. (Crazy that she only lived to age 29!)
Some of the advice gets somewhat strange, intended as it was for a totally different age. But some of it rings out with ageless truth.
“To live well in abundance is the praise of the estate, not of the person.”
~Bishop Hall, quoted by Mrs. Isabella Mary Beeton in The Book of Household Management
It is when my resources seem insufficient that I can test and prove good management. It is no credit to me when I can live well with plenty.
“No man is rich whose expenditure exceeds his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.”
~Judge Halliburton, quoted by Mrs. Isabella Mary Beeton in The Book of Household Management
In a culture that forever cries out “more, more” and dreams of getting rich, when those around me have nicer clothing and cars and houses, this is a good reminder. Oftentimes, even in material things, I am richer than they. They are enslaved, in debt, in order to obtain their belongings. I have sufficiency and am not indebted.
“Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which would otherwise grow dull and blunt. He, therefore, that spends his whole time in recreation is ever whetting, never mowing; his grass may grow and his steed starve; as, contrarily, he that always toils and never recreates, is ever mowing, never whetting, labouring much to little purpose.”
~Bishop Hall, quoted by Mrs. Isabella Mary Beeton in The Book of Household Management
I love this illustration and how it warns against the two extremes that we all are prone to fall into. May I be a sharp blade, put diligently to the task.
Don’t forget to take a look at Barbara H’s meme “The Week in Words”, where bloggers collect quotes they’ve read throughout the week.