• I can’t seem to get enough sleep this week. I don’t know if it is “recovery” from the holidays and a busy last week or what. Well…it might have something to do with staying up too late and then getting up at the regular time to get Jesse off to school. 🙂 But even then, on Wednesday I took a good nap in the afternoon and still dozed off a couple of times in church (sorry, Pastor — nothing personal!!)

• I was looking forward to getting some other obligations done last week and then having most everyone back to school and work this week so that I could really dig in and get some things done. But with feeling sleepy — and unmotivated — and spending too much time at the computer — and not being able to decide which project to start — that didn’t quite happen. I did make a to-do list and have most of it crossed off, but didn’t get to some of the things that have been reentered on multiple to-do lists for months that I was hoping to tackle this week. I plan to get myself in gear, though.

• I had my first MIRL this evening! That’s “meeting in real life” of another blogger. Actually, Ann of From Sinking Sand and I knew each other back in college but lost touch over the years, then rediscovered each other online. She lives about an hour away, and our respective Christian schools played each other in basketball tonight, so we got a chance to catch up with each other.

Here’s some interesting reading from the last few weeks:

• Chats With an Old Lady has thought-provoking posts on doing our husbands good and not evil (Proverbs 31:11-12) and a gossip test.

• Diane at Strength For Today writes about The Ideal Wife.

• Chrysalis, whom I am happy to have recently rediscovered, has a great post about Why Beauty Matters.

• A Common Room, whom I seem to be quoting a lot these days, wrote about the difference between being against fornication yet supporting the choices of an unwed mother. One quote from it: “To me, an unmarried mother is a reminder to honor and say a special prayer of blessing for her and for those like her who make incredible sacrifices, sacrifices of pride, of financial standing, of self, in order to do the right thing and give the baby the gift of life instead of trying to hide the evidence of their fornication by dismembering that small human being in the womb.”

• Sharon Hinck is giving away a copy of her book Stepping Into Sunlight — to be given to someone else. Details are here.

I don’t get political too often here, but wanted to share these few things:

• If someone had thrown a shoe at an Arab leader…
• Laura Bush Defends Her Husband’s Legacy
• President Bush’s reading choices reveal much more mental prowess than his critics give him credit for.
• The Common Room linked to some odd media bias in the way Obama’s (“The sun glinted off chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weightlifting sessions each week, and a body toned by regular treadmill runs and basketball games” and “Gym Workouts Help Obama Carry the Weight of His Position.”) and Bush’s (“Chait argued that Bush’s passionate devotion to exercise was a dereliction of duty. ‘Does the leader of the free world need to attain that level of physical achievement?’”) exercise programs have been covered.
• Diane at Strength For Today posted a list of things that are true no matter who is elected.

On the crafty front:

• I love these crocheted hearts. I can’t crochet and don’t know what I’d do with these if I had them but they’re sooo cute.
• So are these felt heart ornaments. I am trying to think of other ways they could be used besides ornaments so I don’t have to wait til Christmas to hang them if/when I make them.
• I might give this heart wreath a try — only in pink, of course.
• Love this button tree.

Have a great weekend!