DO YOU HAVE PLANS FOR MONDAY?

HELLO OUT THERE IN BLOGLAND.  Tis Monday.  We had company over the wk-end.  Wonderful to have family around.  We ate well and had interesting conversations.  Got together with daughter and her family as well on Saturday.  Had two of my grown children together.  Blessings.

We met up with them at their HOME bringing supper.  I fixed a large salad with lots of olives, blue berries, chick peas and greens mixed with a few cherry tomatoes topped with croutons. Hubby made a Cajun Andouille Sausage dish served with rice and red beans.  Drank water.  He loves this sausage.  Newest favorite for him.  We don't eat pork very often.  Probably a good thing.  

Had a great visit then returned to our HOME to watch a movie, Enola Holmes 2.  Last night after company left to return to their HOME, we watched the first show, Enola Holmes.  Some violence and whodunnit mystery.  If it becomes a series, it would be tempting to watch the series.    

PAUSE.  Having company in meant TIME OFF from the downsizing and move.  Back to it today. We did shuffle some furniture on the main floor of the house so we can bring more furniture down to the main floor making preparations to relocate to the COTTAGE.  Back to it.  Hubby broke down the two beds we are taking with us.  Now to transport the headboards on top of the car HILLBILLY STYLE!

TODAY, We need to make a trip into Manhattan to pick up some lumber as we are going to posh up the upstairs hallway in a few days then two tone paint with different colors to add some interest.  I need to pay a utility bill as well.  Will purchase some green tea from Starbucks for medicinal purposes.  Return HOME and load the large buffet in the back of PETE to take to the COTTAGE.  The large TV will sit on this in the Living room.

Afterwards, we'll probably eat and take a nap then load pieces of the beds that will fit inside the car.  Make another trip over.  I'm sure we will be exhausted come evening.  The more we get moved over, the more excited I get that we are moving forward in our LIVES to living in a small COTTAGE and get out of debt.

I'd like to know what it is like to be DEBT FREE as an adult before I die.  Debt has been a part of our marriage forever.  It's a stress that we shouldn't have had.  If one honors their bills then having too many of them is a heavy load and a concern that requires too much energy to bare. It's a weight that needs to be turned loose of.  Getting to where we have no debt requires working at it and is a sacrifice to make.  Changing the spots on this creature requires changing the DNA of how we are doing LIFE.

A quiet day in the neighborhood.  Ready to go for the day.
In the long run of things, after we move our furniture into the COTTAGE, move all the boxes, items about the house and yard...we can work on the main house full force.  We'll be very busy, but it will be a good feeling to be doing this.  I have a goal.  

Many goals actually.  SELL THE BIG HOUSE.  GET OUT OF DEBT.  GET HEALTHIER.  BE ACTIVE.  SEW.  WRITE.  BEAUTIFY THE FLOWER GARDENS.  PRAISE GOD and STUDY HIS PRECIOUS WORD.  STUDY UP ON BIBLICAL EATING.  WALKING MORE.  VISITING MORE.   

For now, it's moving the furniture one piece at a time to the COTTAGE where we will be living.  We both have cancer and we're moving one item at a time ourselves.  PRAISE THE LORD, we're doing it. We're actually moving.  PRAISE THE LORD, we still have strength.

Praying for healing and a healthier way to live.

~d

QUIET Father's Day HERE ON THE PRAIRIE

FRIDAY EVENING, I took my sweet Husband out for Supper for a early Father's Day gift to him from me.  Though he is not my Father, he is the Father of my children.  We had a wonderful meal at THE NORTH STAR STEAK HOUSE in Topeka.  Take HOME boxes were in order.

In all the time I have lived in this area, I never knew about this restaurant.  It has a colorful past.

  

Pretty sure he enjoyed the dinner.  Onion Rings for the Appetizer then a nice salad with dinner rolls and butter.  Large steak and baked potato.  Iced tea and no dessert.

 

Happy Father's Day.  My dear Dad passed away over 6 years ago as my Father-in-Law died 5 years.  Both Father figures have gone on to Heaven.  Fine men that worked hard for their families and walked in dignity.  They loved their wives and families.  I am grateful for them.  So very grateful.    

SUNDAY.  We had a very quiet day to say the least.

We had a restful morning and by mid afternoon, we loaded more clothing in the car to take to the COTTAGE.  I arranged dolls in the Victorian Desk and my side kick cleared out his tools in the bathroom as he plans on getting the large vanity scooted into place this week.  This will be a welcomed sight as the boxed vanity has been sitting in the middle of the Kitchen for a year and a half!  Now is the time to make it go into the bathroom.  I watered the plants and we called it an early night so we could have Supper.  

Craving a Cherry Raspberry Limeade, we stopped off at SONIC.  AND this is when it happened...let's just get a SONIC MEAL instead of fixing something at HOME.  Cheese Burger for me.  Must have a thousand calories in it, but I didn't care.  Brunch at 11 was a Asian Salad and I was hangry.  

720 calories for the Cheese Burger.  Gulp.  I ate all of it.  Hook, line and sinker.  Cherry Raspberry Limeade 370. 1090 in one meal.  That's horrible for someone like me.  This is my splurge for sure.  Salads for the week.   

I plan on eating salads for the next three days then when our company comes, I will fix meals for them. 

Looking at the week-end. 

ON SATURDAY, my daughter came by to get me so we could goof off for the day. She had the youngest member of the family with her.  Mister C with the almost white head of curly hair.  Lil Miss joined us later. A trip to the Mall and lunch in Manhattan. Coffee for her and Classic Tea for me at the Dusty Book Shelf.  A few other places of business to visit.  

PLAY TIME at the MALL

LUNCH TIME

My youngest Grandson is one busy guy.  As we sat to eat lunch, Latin music was playing and he had the best time bopping his head to the beat the entire hour we were there.  Grins.  He's such fun.  The time goes entirely too fast.  

COFFEE/TEA BREAK AND TIME TO CHAT

He was tuckered out and so was I.

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This week will be an emotional one as I will have a appointment with the Gynecologist that did the Hysteroscope and D&C on me two weeks ago.  The test results are in my health portal so I know the bad news already.  She will hopefully explain the results to me and what our next step will be.  I'd like her to explain the blood test results to me as well as I think my blood is more alkaline then I think it should be.  Prayers appreciated and needed.  CANCER is never what I want to hear.  Truth be told, you never know how it will turn out.  There is the unknown.

AT any rate, Hubby and I will work at moving some more pieces of furniture over to the COTTAGE this week.  A China hutch that will come apart into two pieces, a headboard, footboard, side boards to the Vintage bed.  The smaller pieces to the Victorian bed can go over except the headboard.  

We're getting close to the time that we'll need to get a truck to move larger items like the sofa, two wing chairs, a China Cabinet, two mattresses and two box springs as well as the Victorian headboard.  I am ready to go.  Seems like we still have much to do because we really do.  After the house is cleared out, then we will do some painting in the main house and retile the entryway.  Keeping up the lawn and some weed pulling.  Lord, please be with us in this endeavor.  We need your help.

I won't be decorating for the 4th of July though I will admire others that do.  It will be here before I know it.  Perhaps we can simply have some ice cream, brownies and iced tea watching the fireworks from our front lawn like we have in the previous years.  How did this Holiday sneak up on me?  This year is nearly half over.  It has been a blur of activity.  

LIFE ON THE PRAIRIE will continue
as long as God will allow,

~d        

Partying with HAPPY HOMEMAKER MONDAY:

https://familycorner.blogspot.com/2023/06/blog-365-170-happy-homemaker-monday.html

WEATHER:  HOT, HOT, HOT THIS WEEK FOR SURE.  NO RAIN IN SIGHT SO I'LL BE SURE TO WATER OUTDOOR PLANTS.

AS I LOOK OUT THE WINDOW;  SUN SHINY DAY WITH BLUE SKIES AND CLOUDS.

RIGHT NOW I AM BLOGGING BEFORE MY DAY GETS HECTIC.

THINKING/PONDERING:  HEALTH ISSUES ARE HUGE ALONG WITH DOWNSIZING AND MOVING ITEMS TO COTTAGE.  

LISTENING TO:  THE OSCULATING FAN HUMMING IN OUR LIVING ROOM INSIDE WHILE OUTSIDE OUR NEIGHBOR MOWS HIS YARD.  NOT PEACEFUL WHEN THE MOWERS ARE ACTIVE.

HOW AM I FEELING:  TIRED AND LIGHT HEADED WITH MORNING COUGH.

ON BREAKFAST PLATE:  NO PLATE.  NO FOOD.  WON'T EAT UNTIL 11.

ON LUNCH PLATE:  SALAD.

ON DINNER PLATE:  SALAD.

WHAT I'M WEARING:  FLUFFY HOUSECOAT.

ON READING PILE:  MAGAZINES AND HEALTH BOOKS.

ON MY TV THIS WEEK:  NOT SURE.

ON THE MENU:  VEGGIES, SOME FRUIT.

LOOKING AROUND THE HOUSE:  SHUFFLING BOXES TO GET OUT OF THE HOUSE.

TO DO LIST:  MOVING PIECES OF FURNITURE TO COTTAGE, DOCTOR'S VISIT ABOUT UTERINE CANCER.

DEVOTIONAL:  GOD IS MY REFUGE.  IN HIM WILL I TRUST.

~d