Happy Homemaker Monday

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The weather in my neck of the woods:

Here's the forecast for today:

11°C
Chance of Rain
Scattered Clouds
Wind: W at 24 km/h
Humidity: 82%

Lol, 'Chance of Rain'? It's absolutely tipping it down!

Things that make me happy:

A little hand slipping into mine on the way into school this morning and whispering, "I love you Mummy".

Book I'm reading:

Just the Bible. I'm in Numbers. I'm thinking of starting Bleak House by Charles Dickens this week, it's been on my shelf for a while.

With Chatterbox I'm reading Wind in the Willows, with Squidge I'm reading whatever she fancies (we haven't started a long book this week).

What's on my TV today:

Midsomer Murders

On the menu for dinner:

Homemade pizza (I'm going to make the base in the bread maker).

Lol, scratch that, I thought the dough cycle was 1 hour but it's 1 hour 30 mins and I've left it too late.

On my To Do List:

• Tidy house;
• Ironing;
• Work (also for those who don't know, I do 2 hours a day in the kitchen at my girls' school - yes, I'm a dinner lady!);
• Adjust two of Squidge's new school skirts that are too big around the waist;
• Try to get tar off one of Chatterbox's dolls!;
• Church group tonight at our Pastor's house.

In the craft basket:

Squidge's school skirts for adjusting.
Some new acrylic paint and paper!

Looking forward to this week:

Hearing all about the girls' new classes at school.

Tips and Tricks:

I've just found out that you can freeze egg whites and yolks separately, which is useful to know for recipes where you only need the egg white or the yolk, that you can save the other part for another day. The tip suggests you save them in ice-cube compartments.

My favourite blog post this week:

This from A Holy Experience: When Perfectionism and To-do Lists Overwhelm


No words needed (favourite photo or picture, yours or others you want to share):

Flickr

This isn't my photo, click on the Flickr link to take you to the original, but isn't it beautiful? Look at the wickle kitty paws!

Lesson learned the past few days:

That I am so grateful to be able to be home most of the day.

On my mind:

Church.
My girls playing outside, I love to hear them play.
The sad loss of a young woman who used to come to our church.

Devotionals, Scripture Reading, Key Verses:

But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it.
Numbers 14:24

Happy Monday!