'You get a feeling when you look back on life that that’s all God wants from us, to live inside a body He made and enjoy the story and bond with Him through the experience.'--from A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller
Sorting through homeschool materials today, our first day being the day after Labor Day. That was the habit I grew used to in college, and that's what we hold to now. Just seems more appropriate to start when the first small sniff of Fall is in the air.
And the weather couldn't be any more delightful. The temperatures in the 60s at night and in the low/middle 80s during the day. The windows were up yesterday, and hopefully can remain that way today.
I was able to be a hermit yesterday, and putter along and rest. That's the way Sundays ought to be. We're way too busy (the world in general) and quiet is good. Read more of 'The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie' by Alan Bradley, but decided I couldn't finish it just now, so passed it onto a son. Good book. I'm thinking it might be the next book made into a movie...sort of Lemony Snicket-esque, if you know what I mean. And it's not that it's purposefully depressing (in an amusing way) like Snicket, far from it, but the story has a vintage feel and the children are more mature than the ordinary, run-of-the-mill kid around town. The main character is an 11 year old girl, Flavia, very cool. Will check it out at the library again when it goes off the seven-day list. I need more time!
So instead of reading ALL the time, will organize today and clean the house. I bought 2 dozen brown eggs at the grocery the other day (sale at 99 cents/dozen), but already had over a dozen white ones at home. Guess what's for dinner! With biscuits. That'll be easy. Plus the house needs major dusting---and while the weather has been wonderful, we could do with some rain. This dry weather, plus having windows open, nevermind having 4 dogs and 10 people traipsing through the rooms---has contributed to a very dusty house.
Off to drink my tea and think about it. Oddly enough, the house still sleeps. Must take advantage of it.
