Let's Party - Happy Homemaker Monday

Welcome, come on inside my world for a bit. 

This is a new blog and I plan to visit and post random thoughts, photos, recipes and whatever along my journey. Come on along and stay for a cup of coffee and a cinnamon roll fresh from the oven. I have been visiting your blogs for several years and I enjoy every single one of them!

 ~jackiesee~

I am joining Sandra over at Family Corner Blog for her Monday Series

HAPPY HOMEMAKER MONDAY

and following her prompts posted on her Happy Homemaker posts.

I slept last night for about 3 hours.

I kept my Sjogren's meds close and managed to take them at 2am.

I went back to sleep until 5am. Total 6 hours sleep in 48+ hours.

Same symptoms that have controlled my body the past couple of weeks.

The Weather:

Cloudy, wet, muddy and gloomy. It's March in the Ozarks and that can change in the next hour. We are located along the north side of the I-44 corridor.  Storms like to split right along I-44 and the Oklahoma/Kansas border and we always seem to be located along that split.  It is cold, only 30℉ and holding there with winds blowing from the north. 

As I look outside my window:

I am sitting at my kitchen island looking out my dining room window.  I have been up a while and we had no sunrise this morning, just gray/blue skies. The Cardinals, the finches, the woodpeckers, and more are on the feeders. The pond is beautiful with an adult crane staring into the water on the east bank. Two geese are here, we love having a family move here and lay their eggs. But last years, the two geese have brought their entire neighborhoods and it's too much poo. We will be more careful if we think we have a mom, dad, and future babies. We will feed them more privately.

Right now I am:

Listening to arnell pineda on you tube, reading and writing little when I can wear my glasses without pain, waiting for thehubs to wake up and begin his day, moving and loving on all my plants. Plants are good listeners.

Thinking and pondering:

The changes in our lives these past couple of years. The change in my community. The loneliness during grief. My new boundaries. I feel like I am starting over, again, only this time I have a chain around my legs, a chain called sjogren's. Wondering if I must stand tall against myself, my own habits, and the needs of others in order to get my health back. That means strict diet, controlled environment with a serious reduction in outside stressors, fluid movements and long soft stretches throughout my day, pleasant music, no television, no news, no politics. Right now I am miserable, my wet membranes are bone dry, my hands are tingling and I can not feel anything but needles in them. But yet, I only want to eat my cold milk with 4 reeses cups for breakfast. I don;t get hungry anymore, eating means I can not breathe, have trouble swallowing. Liquid meals look pretty good to me right now.

On my bedside table:

Just the usuals, thehubs is till asleep, the room is dark.

On my TV today:

Nothing. I don't watch much television.

Listening to:

I am playing a duets playlist with great vocalists from all over and lots of different genre's.

Right now, its live duets and playing is Michael Jackson and Brittany Spears. I know not my usual artists, but they sound great doing this live version.  I love the Tony Bennett duets.

On the lunch plate:

no idea, food is not appealing right now.

On the dinner plate:

I can't plan my weeks meals by day. I use to when we worked and had a regular schedule. But being semi-retired and old, we now whenever we close out our outside day and come together in the late afternoon or evening. I deal with nausea, so some days I cook when I can and what I can and just put it in the fridge to be eaten whenever. I also cook for my Mom who is in a nursing home and needs her foods fixed her way.

I ordered mom delivery this week. She got frozen shrimp and noodles, shrimp and rice, pre-sliced fruit with different dips, grapes, cucumbers, and still has the meat patties in her freezer along with a couple of baked potatoes with cheese and broccoli.  I plan on ordering a take-out pizza, or a cheese enchilada dinner one night and having it delivered to her room. I tip high, I feel that if the delivery person is willing to go inside to her room and help her put things away, it is worth a nice tip. So far, everyone has done a nice job.

On the dinner menu this week:

I wish I had something good in mind. This week may hit and it may miss. I big pot of ham and beans (wet food) and cornbread may be on the menu.  Papas Pizza takeout Tuesday?  I have a full pantry, full freezer so we will just have to wing it this week. Maybe tomorrow I can cruise some food blogs and try to find something wet and tasty to try.

On my reading pile:

Just blogs right now. I have a book but I have struggled with my concentration so I am waiting longer to start it. I love reading Jill Eileen Smith Books about women of the Bible.

On my to-do list:

Play with  this new blog

Take more photos

Try to stay positive when my body is screaming at me.

Straighten the refrigerator freezer, and the freezer in the garage.

Does anyone else have to get out of their car outside the garage? Because the wall that the passenger door opens up to is filled with cabinets filled with stuff. The garage is thehubs territory, so I doubt that will happen this week???

Plans for the week:

Nothing. I would love a day trip somewhere but I need nothing, want nothing, and have no appetite. Sunshine and warm temperatures are wanted and needed. My fibromyalgia gets better after a day like that.

What I am creating:

Plants, I love my plants.  I love to grow them in antique quart jars of water. I just gave a 2 year old one that I added silk flowers to as a gift and it was well received. I grow plants in water better than I do in dirt.  In the Spring I take cuttings of all my tropicals and plant them in my north flower bed. They love it there and do great blessing me with babies and more babies.  Radishes are planted and up, onions are ready to be planted but it was too warm, then too wet, will try to get them in this week.

My simple pleasures:

Sleep, relaxing sleep, restful sleep. Waking up with energy. 

Looking around the house:

It needs a good wipe down. I cleaned well (all day) last Friday. I do have another give-away-pile on the guest bed that needs to go out the door and keep going. I am getting rid of my large corning ware casserole dishes. They are too heavy for my fingers, too droppable,  I am only using them once a year. Mom's jewelry box, never used, brand new, her debbie macomber books she refuses to read twice, new pajamas that are too small for her, several of her hand made table goodies but are the boldest colors imaginable. I am keeping about 20, but these 10 are colors that no one enjoys so they are moving onto a better home if I can find one. 

From the Camera:

Bible Verse - Devotional:

Heavenly Father, I come to you. Only you know how I feel. Only you know my pain.

As I come to you Father, you come to me.
Come to me and begin the healing that I so long for.
Wash me of this pain.
Cleanse me of my sin and suffering.
With your precious blood that forgives all and heals all.

Let my body work in harmony towards healing, oh merciful Lord.
May your Spirit move through my muscles, bones and joints that ache deeply.
It is a hurt that cannot be explained.
Some days I just can’t get up, I cannot move.
So weary is my soul.
Will you not look mercifully upon me Lord in these days?
Do not delay any longer, set me free.

Mobilize all my body’s natural defenses to bring me to health.
My heart, my lungs and my brain,
My blood, my organs, and all my hormones,
Set them all to work in health and harmony.
For you are a most merciful God, sovereign over all creation.
Certainly you must hear me.
Hear my cry.

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