a little out and about...

 ....there's an Amazon package store not too far from here.  You can bid on things online, then pick them up, or shop in their bins.  Yesterday everything in the bins was $6.  Camille got a memory foam pillow and a package of four beautiful white towels, I got a nice doll, an airtight coffee storage container, a phone charger/speaker, and a couple of Christmas gifts.  I was there to pick up a $14 travel backpack I had gotten in the online auction, as well as a dog bed, and some pretty fake candles with a rechargable remote ($8).

Sonja and Oscar, me, Camille

The travel backpack is really really nice, I have one in a different color, comes with packing cubes.  

The candles look real, and fit nicely in this glass thing-y.

We stopped to eat at a little place that specializes in chicken tenders, I got Buffalo style, and brought a few home for Jonny.  We also went into the grocery store because I wanted a 48 cent a pound turkey.  I found one a bit over 20 pounds, and it's thawing in the extra refrigerator.  I think I'll make it on Saturday or Sunday.  We're eating at Benjamin's and Ashley's on Thanksgiving, and there's nothing like making your own turkey.  

Abigail is coming home for Thanksgiving, she's our second oldest, and lives in Delaware now.  I am super excited about that.  

I got up this morning, made the bed, got dressed and washed up, came out, let the dog and cat out, let them back in and wiped dog down with towel, got coffee, got out the food processor, and here I sit in the comfy chair.  I am going to make that pie dough today!  I'm thinking to make all the pies tomorrow though, so they'll be as fresh and yummy as possible.  

So all these things that make our lives fun and interesting, but how is life itself going?  I often remind myself that this is it.  This is life.  It's not someday.  Or when I'm skinny.  Or when our house is all done and nice.  No, it's now, this is it.  We each only have today.  More and more I see that when I'm thankful for everything that comes my way, and trust that God sends what I need, then rest and peace come.  Even in all the aches and pains, there are lessons to learn.  God didn't just create us, then leaves us to figure things out, if we listen, He is speaking, He is near.  

Our thoughts are like the rudder that steers the ship.  When I say NO to mean thoughts, judgy thoughts, anxious thoughts, then I don't let those things into my heart.  Check out activechristianity.org.  There's a song Hear the Trumpet My Brother....so good.  There are a lot of songs on there actually, and some really encouraging articles. 

Anyway, life is good, today is good.  It's dark and rainy today, the ground is just a big soaky mess.  The dogs like to go out in it and get all wet, but if I leave the towel on the floor near the door, the cat, Miss Old Kitty, will squat daintily and pee on it.  Yes, she will.  I don't know why.  

These two....old Suri girl and Little Miss Sunshine, Sunny...I batten down the hatches when we leave, because they are piggy-pig pigs.  The garbage can goes into the laundry room, nothing left on the counters, the bathroom doors closed. Well, they went into Paul's office, and got the bag of licorice that Riley sent him from Phoenix...I didn't know that Paul had already eat it all, ha, and I thought these two had, but they only got the empty bag.  Poor hungry girls.  

Ah well, have a really good day!