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Bless This House

My husband led the family in the traditional Epiphany house blessing this evening after dinner. It was quite touching for me. Mr. Big Boy read from Luke, about Zaccheus and Jesus' meeting. Z just wanted to catch a glimpse of Jesus and he got so much more.

Hubby marked the doors with the blessing "Peace be to this house and all who live here". Then wrote above each door 20+C+M+B+10. In searching for the blessing prayers I found this blog...Perpetual Priest You can click on it to go to the blessing and a quick explanation of what it means. I encourage you to check out the latest entries there, especially the latest homily on this years Epiphany. Wonderful stuff.

God is truly good and truly present in our world. He is here, in my home, tonight! I have just a inkling of what Z must have felt, way back when.

Wii are Fit! UPDATE!!

I did get on the treadmill for 30 minutes today for a nice brisk walk! My ankle is doing much better today! Hooray! I also managed to get the filing cabinet completely done! Got my chalk blessed and thanks to Sarah Kala got dinner on the table in a hurry! :)

Now..school...I won't think about that right now..I'll think about that tomorrow.
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Just did the Wii Fit for 30 minutes. Love the cycling..although I'm not much good at finding the dern flags. Did 22 minutes of yoga and some hula hoop. Love it! I can't run yet, but that's coming soon. I'm itching. I'll walk on the treadmill today for 30 minutes. Sometime. Today is Epiphany. We have Mass and Father is going to bless our chalk. We'll do the ceremony when hubby gets home today. We like him to be in charge of blessing the house.

I am going to start working on that filing cabinet today. I think. Don't let me get distracted. If I don't post about it than you know I didn't do it. :)

Kids are just getting up. Tomorrow we start school..2nd quarter. yippee!

I like starting the day off with exercise. I really do feel better! Go figure.
P.S. Happy Birthday Father J.!

Finally Clean!

In my last post I told how Sarah Kala had inspired me to work on my filing cabinet. Well...I haven't quite gotten to that yet. However, I did manage to rearrange and reorder my "spare" room. It is now our office. I took apart the "bed" and put the extra mattress on Mr. MiddleMan's bed..he's got a softer one now. :)

Then moved all the Christmas decorations from that room to my room and finally to their resting place...my closet. Yes. It is that big. Sinful, really.

Here are some pics of the spaces: I didn't get a before of the spare room..it was too horrendous!

The office..yep..we do use that treadmill for walking/running!

The Christmas Decorations "before", taking up the left side of my room.

All Clean!
The Closet/storage place. We don't have any other storage except this closet. We'll be working on the attic soon.

My next subject to tackle..the office desk and the filing cabinet, currently out of view.

In With the New, Out With the Old

Sarah Kala over at "the road" has reminded me once again of things that need to be done. I've got some clearing out to do. We started rearranging yesterday and putting up Christmas decorations. They are all going upstairs in that ridiculously large closet of mine. We are turning the extra bedroom downstairs into an office. It doesn't get used much as a bedroom anyhow.

I need to get through the filing cabinet, clean it out and re-organize it. Labels and all. I am so not! a label person, but it needs to be done.

I twisted a tendon in my ankle last week and it is still bothering me. Went to the doc yesterday and got the RICE talk. Rest, Ice, Compression and Elevation. Hard to do when you need to get things moving around the house. 8 years ago I severely sprained it, resulting in a casting. Took a step down and landed wrong. Doc says I should have had physical therapy to strengthen it at that time. I didn't. Needless to say I have numerous problems with that ankle. So this time, I've been referred to Physical Therapy.

It was really bad last evening. I was on my feet all day yesterday and it was just swollen and aching. Ugh. I. need. to. be. able. to. get. around! I've got school starting up this week, work on Friday and our ladies group kickoff function to coordinate and run on Thursday. So, we'll see what gives.

Mmmmmm. My coffee is tasty this morning. The other morning as I was letting out the doggie, I noticed a cardinal in the trees behind the fence. So I've been going out every morning to try and spot him. Brrrrr..it's cold! my jammies are still warming up. But it's such a pleasant experience to watch him fly through the trees. His red feathers so bright against the drab browns of the deadwood surrounding me. Even his song is so different and interesting. It's worth a few minutes of cold. I've got to find a way to get him to land in my yard! :)(then I could watch from the window..inside the house!) Any suggestions?

Anyhow, the sun is coming up and I must start this day. Blessings to you all!

Good Times Remembered

At the Defending the Faith Conference at Franciscan University, Steubenville, July 2005


Just For Sarah-Kala...

Baby!

Daniel Nicholas, 8lbs 5 oz. Born December 31, 2009 5:25 pm. Thanks be to God!