Reading...A book called The Mistress Of Mellyn by Victoria Holt. If you like Daphne Du Maurier books, Holt's books have a very similar gothic vibe! I like gothic-feeling books in the fall, but somehow they also work for me in the spring. Maybe it's the contrast between the cool, bright air, and the moody book.
Planning...to get back to the gym more this spring. I have been slacking on working out since February, but I was feeling generally yucky the other day, and decided it's time to step it up again. I even had Derek go to our little mountain gym with me and show me how to work some new machines.
Getting...tired of the non-stop spam calls and "we're taking a survey" texts, not to mention the RELENTLESS emails from the GOP even though I've tried to unsubscribe from the emails 20 times since 2020. I'm THIS close to voting for a Democrat out of spite. (I'm also 100% kidding about that. I could never vote for a pro-abortion candidate).
(Got this tumbler as a surprise in the mail yesterday - it makes me chuckle!)Going...a little crazy as a homeschool mom. It's the end of the school year, subjects are dropping off left and right, and my little tribe is DONE. We have three weeks of school left, we finished our math and reading curricula, and it's getting harder and harder to wrangle them in the mornings. I wanted to finish out a couple of my goals for the school year, but I'm strongly considering just giving up and doing some unit studies until we fulfill our days.
For instance, on social media we follow aesthetically pleasing accounts, or read words that are well put together, and we want our lives to look just like that. We can even see someone in real life who has it together, or has achieved something we wish we could do, and we think we need to take advice from that person. And so often these pictures of life that we are looking up to are people that are our PEERS - the same age or life stage as us. They really don't have any more experience in life than we do, but they LOOK like they have it together, so we seek their advice and try to emulate them.
But the Bible says we are supposed to be taught by the OLDER women, women who have that life experience and have learned wisdom, what it means to be faithful. Why don't we younger women look to them more? Why do we think that the person who is the same age/life stage as us is qualified to give us marriage, mothering, or homeschool tips when she's right in the thick of it and doesn't have any more perspective than we ourselves do? Why don't we find wise, OLDER Christian women to emulate? I might hash this out more in a future post, but I've been thinking about it.
Taking...a deep breath. It's stuffy in my house, and I just went out on the porch for a minute. The air outside is cool and refreshing, and my breath finally reached the bottom of my lungs. I like Spring more and more as I get older.
HAHA! We got that tumbler too in the mail this week and it made us laugh!
Oh my, that tumbler is hysterical! I will have to check out Victoria Holt. Thanks for the rec.
That’s a hilarious tumbler! I love that outfit!! And I think it’s great Elon is going for free speech..
And YESS about the advice from older, wiser women!!
I'm glad Twitter is changing, although I don't feel a pull there myself. I'm on FB and there's always a certain vibe when people have been debating something on Twitter. Getting a little nervous with the abortion topic surfacing again. I really wish there was a way to have civil debates! Instead, I have to pretty much "snooze" (temporary unfollow) those who get overemotional about hot topics. I don't like the way it makes me feel reading those comments. Regarding women, I really like mixed company! Covid pretty much extinguished a lot of social opportunities. Similarly to older women, I try to hang out with locals and not just expats. I like gleaning wisdom from them, whereas expats can just kind of dumb each other down or something. But I think everyone can benefit from both the energetic/optimistic outlook of the experienced, and the wisdom of the experienced. Love your outfit!
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